page_title: Riverfront Park (Spokane, Washington)
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Riverfront Park (Spokane, Washington) / Location and overview / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Riverfront Park in Spokane, Washington, the site of Expo '74, as seen from the 12th floor of the Davenport Grand hotel.
context_page_description: Riverfront Park, branded as Riverfront Spokane, is a public urban park in Downtown Spokane, Washington that is owned and operated by the Spokane Parks & Recreation Department. The 100-acre park is situated along the Spokane River and encompasses the Upper Spokane Falls, which are the second largest urban waterfall in the United States, and, when combined with the Lower Spokane Falls that sit just outside of the park's boundary, create the largest urban waterfall in the country.
  Located on the site of a former railyard, visions for creating a park to encompass the Spokane Falls date back as early as 1908, however it would be another 64 years before those visions would be realized. In 1972, the active railyards were removed, and area around the Spokane Falls reclaimed, when construction commenced on an urban renewal project that built a fairground to host the upcoming environmentally-themed Expo '74 World's fair. Plans called for the site, which hosted the fair from May 4 to November 3, 1974, to be kept as a legacy piece of Expo '74 and converted into an urban park after the fair's conclusion.
context_section_description: Riverfront Park is located just north of the Downtown Spokane core, in Spokane's Riverside neighborhood, and is generally bounded by Spokane Falls Boulevard to the south, Post Street to the west, the northern banks of the Spokane River, and Division Street to the east. Portions of its North Bank Area extend farther north from the river, bounded by Howard Street to the west, Cataldo Avenue to the north, and Washington Street to the east.  A majority of the park's elevation ranges from 1,880 feet (570 m) to 1,890 feet (580 m) above sea level, placing it more or less level with the surrounding Downtown Spokane, however, the elevation varies as one moves onto the park's two islands and closer to the Spokane River.
  The Spokane River, the park's namesake and main natural attraction, flows from east to west through the park, beginning as a single run, and eventually splitting up across three channels, creating the two main islands featured in the park.  The first split into a northern and southern channel creates Havermale Island, the larger of the two islands.  Further downstream, at around the midpoint of Havermale Island, the northern channel splits again into the north and mid channels, creating snxw meneɂ, formerly known as Canada Island. These northern two channels contain the Upper Spokane Falls, surrounding snxw meneɂ. All three channels converge back into a single run just downstream of the Upper Falls.
caption: Riverfront Park is situated within an urban context in Downtown Spokane.
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