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The U.S. National Whitewater Center (USNWC) is a not-for-profit outdoor recreation and athletic training facility for whitewater rafting, kayaking, canoeing, rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking and ice skating which opened to the public in 2006. [1]
Six Flags White Water is a 69-acre (280,000 m 2) water park located northwest of Atlanta, in East Cobb, Georgia.Originally opening in 1984 as White Water Atlanta, the park became part of the Six Flags family of parks in 1999.
The Ocoee Whitewater Center, near Ducktown, Tennessee, United States, was the canoe slalom venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, [2] [3] and is the only in-river course to be used for Olympic slalom competition. A 1,640 foot (500 m) stretch of the Upper Ocoee River was narrowed by two-thirds to create the drops and eddies needed for a ...
The center opened in May 2007, constructed at a cost of $24 million, and is the third pump-powered artificial whitewater facility built in North America. [1] Its educational partner in water sports instruction is the Adventuresports Institute [usurped] of nearby Garrett College , which offers degrees in outdoor adventure sports.
A new aquatic center named after a former chairman of the Houston County Board of Commissioners is set to open March 1 in Warner Robins. The county broke ground for the Tommy Stalnaker Aquatic ...
In 2009, the park announced the first major expansion since 2005, and the first to Splash Beach since 2004. The expansion included a new attraction from WhiteWater West called "UpSurge!", a 216-foot flume slide with a vertical half pipe ending in a 25,000-gallon splash pool. [6] The park also combined both parks into one ticket price.
The Dickerson Whitewater Course, on the Potomac River near Dickerson, Maryland, was built for use by canoe and kayak paddlers training for the 1992 Olympic Games in Spain. It was the first pump-powered artificial whitewater course built in North America, and is still the only one anywhere with heated water.
In March 2002 and again the same August, the whitewater course was inundated, but the buildings and most of the island remained above water. When the Water Sports Centre operates at full capacity, with the two whitewater channels carrying a combined total of 22 m 3 /s (777 ft 3 /s), it siphons off between 9% and 4.5% of the river's normal flow ...