Waterfront Recreation

Mississippi Riverfront

Downtown Davenport

Downtown Davenport is nestled along a gorgeous and unique portion of the Mississippi River where the water flows East to West. With this American landmark as our front porch, the Mighty Mississippi provides the perfect backdrop for riverfront parks and a variety of outdoor activities. As the award-winning River Vision Plan continues to unfold, you can expect to see

even more exciting development along riverfront.

LeClaire Park With unobstructed views of the Mississippi, nearly 9 acres of green space and a historic band shell stage, LeClaire Park is an ideal place to enjoy the Mississippi. LeClaire Park is home to major summer festivals including River Roots Live, Blues Fest, Riverfront Pops, WQPT Brew Ha Ha, and more. It’s also a great place for a picnic or to throw a Frisbee around, too.

Top view of the park

Front view of the park

riverfront-and-centennial-bridge summer festivals

Centennial Park Skateboarding Park, Spray Grounds, Veterans Memorial Park & More Gazebos and a beautiful view of the Mississippi River .It’s also home to the Skate Park, the Spray Ground, basketball courts, a boat ramp, a playground, a dog-off lease area, and even a rugby/cricket field.

The newly-minted Veterans Memorial Park is adjacent to Centennial Park, too. There’s a concession stand with restrooms, as well.

Skateboarders, BMX bikers, and rollerblades won’t find a bigger or better Skate Park in the Quad Cities! The Skate Park is huge, challenging, and always packed with people. Looking for a place to cool off the kids in the summer? The Spray Ground at Centennial Park

is FREE, and kids will love playing in its variety of fun and wacky water

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Skybridge Stretching from 2nd Street to the riverfront, the Sky bridge offers

unparalleled views of the Mississippi River. Visitors and residents alike can enjoy this unique vantage point in the evening because the Skybridge contains fun kaleidoscope lighting featuring a whopping 228 LED fixtures and 8,036 individual lights that flash in a variety of cool patterns.

Of course, the Skybridge also functions as a safe and convenient way to cross the busy highway traffic on River Drive. The Skybridge can be entered via the River Music Experience courtyard off 2nd Street, the Redstone Parking Ramp, or at its Southern foot near Rhythm City Casino.

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Modern Woodmen Park In December of 2007, the ballpark was renamed Modern

Woodmen Park. The new ownership group began making waves soon after with a series of new additions to the ballpark, including the Jumper's Casino Rock Island Hot Tub Deck, the Tikka Village and the corn field during the 2008 season. In 2009 an 80-foot LED digital ribbon board was affixed to the right field wall, and the ballpark also received new Loge Box picnic areas down the third base line, seat backs for the bleachers, drink rails on the outfield berm, and a Van Down by the River. Ballpark Digest had this to say about the ballpark: �The integration of the old with the new makes Modern Woodmen Park one of the nicest ballparks in the minors.�

Bike Rentals & Walking Trails Enjoy the fresh air and beautiful views offered by the bike and walking trails that line the length of our Mississippi riverfront. The good people at River Action have put together a handy QC Bike Trail Map that will serve as a great guide.! You can rent a bike at the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau office conveniently located within Union Station near LeClaire Park.

Channel Cat Water Taxi Explore the majestic Mississippi river aboard the Channel Cat Water Taxi! Experience the power and mystique of the river as it flows east to west and get a taste of the area once known as

the Rock River Rapids. Although we don’t have a boarding location downtown yet, you can hitch a ride on the Channel Cat just a few miles away in the Village of East Davenport.

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Skate Park,

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the Spray Ground

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basketball courts

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boat ramp

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Playground

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dog-off lease area

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Rugby field

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cricket field

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concession stand with restrooms

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Skateboarders,

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BMX bikers,

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tennis

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skating rinks and skate .

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climbing wall

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Tot lots

MADRID RIO

MADRID, SPAIN The city of Madrid dug 43 kilometres of tunnels into which the exit routes and motorways of the six-

kilometre section along the River Manzanares disappeared. the project Madrid terminating river. where previously circulated 200,000 vehicles per day by the m-30, now there is a huge linear park, a green corridor that stretches from brown to Getafe and follows the course of the river manzanares. Madrid itineraries river has 42 miles and include 11 new children's play areas, 6 spaces for seniors, 30 miles of bike lanes and 253,601 m2 for sports. addition, more than 33,000 trees planted and 429 acres of parkland

Sal贸n de Pinos, designed as a linear green space, which will link the existing and newly designed urban spaces with each other along the Manzanares River, located almost entirely on top of the motorway tunnel, with a "choreography" of the 8.000-fold pine tree planting with a repertoire of cuts.

Huerta de la Partida, the old Royal Palace is now a modern interpretation of the orchard and a wide variety of fruit trees in groups, formed from skipping ranks. For the Arganzuela Park, the dominating motive is the water. The canalized and damped river Manzanares is surrounded by his architectonical walls. The different streams have their own characters.

Avenida de Portugal, one of the most important roads into the centre of Madrid, relocated in a tunnel and providing underground parking, converting the space into a garden, benefitting the local residents in particular with cherry.

Puentes Cascara, serving as bridges and iconic landmark, creates a place where the river is really experienced. They are designed as a massive concrete dome with a rough texture which have the scale of park elements with more than one hundred cables resembling whale baleens wearing the slim steel deck. The fine detailing becomes visible when entering the bridge. The ceilings have a mosaic of the Spanish artist Daniel

Canogar. In the edge of the ceiling the lighting is included which illuminates the artwork and the deck by reflection

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basketball

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Handball

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paddle tennis

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tennis

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circuit BMX,

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skating rinks and skate.

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climbing wall

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canoeing.

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bocce and bio saludable circuit for exercise.

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while children can use a zip line, an area of slides and

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a life size pirate ship

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Children play area Puente del Rey Esplanade Seventeen play areas for children located throughout A multi-purpose area for the park, with 65 different holding all kinds of events. pieces of equipment.

Imaginative equipment made of sustainable, natural materials, suitable for all ages. The most exciting ones are the slides hill, the tree trunk jungle and the super zip-line.

Huerta de la Partida viewpoint It is situated in Casa de Campo, next to the Huerta de la Partida orchard, and overlooks Madrid's major monuments.

San Vicente viewpoint Located next to the flagpole flying the European flag at Glorieta de San Vicente, it overlooks the Ancieto Marinas Gardens. It offers views over Avenida de Portugal, Casa de Campo, Puente del Rey bridge and Puente del Rey Esplanade.

This bridge was formerly used for road traffic, but has now been converted for pedestrians and cyclists. It is 150 metres long.

This distinctive new steel bridge has two arms on the left bank and one on the right.

Urban beach

Plaza de Matadero

It is formed by three oval-shaped water areas with different effects: a smooth stretch of water, jets of varying heights and a cloud of water vapour.

A multi-purpose space for holding all kinds of events..

Puente de Segovia viewpoint It looks over major landmarks, the Puente del Rey Espalande and the Virgen del Puerto Chapel Gardens.

Puente Monumental de Arganzuela bridge An unusual new bridge 274 metres in length and formed by two spiral-shaped walkways connected by a hill giving access to Arganzuela Park. For pedestrians and cyclists only.

Puente de Arganzuela viewpoint It commands views over the Arganzuela Park, the Puente de Toledo bridge and the surrounding baroque gardens.

Invernadero and Matadero bridges Two pedestrian bridges with vaulted ceilings decorated with recycled glass mosaics depicting local residents. For pedestrian use only.

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