U.S. National Whitewater Center

The U.S. National Whitewater Center 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 on 2006.

The Center is located in Charlotte, North Carolina on approximately 1,300 acres of land adjacent to the Catawba River, with more than 45 miles of developed trail.

The Center's primary feature is the world's largest and most complex recirculating artificial whitewater river. The river channels were designed by three-time Olympian Scott Shipley.