We're starting the summer of 2018 with a big THANK YOU to the City of Spokane and a host of partners. Over the next 18 months, years of effort by the City, Spokane River Forum and others will be paying off handsomely with recreational and environmental stewardship developments through the Great Gorge area.

From Red Band Park (formerly Glover Field) to the Treatment Plant, you'll see and enjoy improved trailheads, water trail access, biking/walking trails, parking and other amenities. Literally and figuratively, they will be standing side by side and above multi-million-dollar facility improvements to meet clean water and other environmental standards. It's a lasting "can do" gift from one generation to the next.

Below are some highlights of what's going on and what to look forward to. These gifts, brought to you with the type of hard work and cooperation that speak to our better angels, leave us filled with optimism and thanks as we set forth with our shades, swimsuits, flops and assorted equipment.

Glover Field has been renamed Red Band Park, and now includes the riparian area between Water Avenue and the river. This summer construction will begin on a trailhead that will feature a non-motorized boat launch, vehicle turnaround, expanded parking, and restroom facility where the ballfield and former community center are located. The field itself was restored last year by the Spokane Indians ballclub and KXLY-TV's Extreme Team. Read More

As part of installing stormwater catchment and other facilities, the City of Spokane is taking the opportunity to call out river access and trail improvements at TJ Meenach and the disc golf area. Click here to see concept drawings of both that were well received at a public meeting last spring. Read More

Big thanks to the City of Spokane's Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility leadership for designating additional parking at the Aubrey White Parkway, aka-treatment plant, water trail access. There is now a signed, dedicated parking lane for river access across from the treatment plant office entry. This summer, there's an Eagle Scout project to build and place an information kiosk. Read More