Marge Cline Whitewater Course

This is SO fun! 10/10 experience, we got $5 tubes from Walmart and connected 3 together! We went up and down the rapids probably 8 times! It’s so convenient bc theirs a concrete path at the end of the rapids so you walk back up that to the beginning! It was less than a 5 min walk back up! Would recommend to anyone! We did flip the tubes a few times, and water can get deep so next time I would def recommend life jackets !

Nice place to take a walk or go fishing. Birdwatching is also fun to see the birds play in the water.

Incredibly beautiful place. Nice beginner level white water. Local place offers rentals. Has shelter picnic area, benches, walking bridge to island. Lovely.

Beautiful area to walk along the Fox River. Can't wait to come back in the summer to try to Whitewater course!

Rapids in Yorkville. Looks fun, I have never gone thru yet. They have really put some funds building this area up. We started at Saw Wee Kee but we did not not go thru the rapids. We opted to portage, which is a pretty good walk with the 5 of us carrying our 5 kayaks. Luckily I spotted this awesome trolley cart. It's usually parked by put-in, so you have to look for it. It saved us. From Take out to put in is about 1,100 feet or .2 of mile. Its free of charge and we were able to put 5 10-foot kayaks on it. It has some straps but I used my bowline too. There is an ADA compliant EZ Dock at this launch at the portage, but I did not see one at put in.

Really great spot to practice kayaking and canoeing in whitewater. Taking Inter tubes on it is also a blast.

Great chute for kayakers,or head east for a scenic cruise...turtles a plenty, I've seen snappers,sliders and softshell...big carp at the surface, many hawks,herons,and a few northern water snakes...harmless.Enjoy!

It was fun we took my grandson's graduation pictures there. We then took a nice stroll down the river front. Afterward we decided to get ice cream at the shop

This was so much fun! Perfect for a day of kayaking without all the hassle. And a special thank you to whoever Erik S. Is that built the cart to help get kayaks back up to the launch for the public! It truly made it so much easier to keep traveling the Rapids several times without wearing ourselves out having to huff the equipment up by hand over and over again!

Lots of fun! Bring your own tubes or kayaks.

Me and my family came out here for my birthday and we had so much fun. There is a guy who rents things like helmets and tubes to go down in. Super fun place and definitely want to return in the future.

My family all love to run the whitewater course here. While I am not a kayaker, I enjoy the scenery here. It's the perfect place to set up a pic of and watch the kayakers navigate the course.

An place dreams are made of...
With an small white water course and numerous obstacles.... An beautiful location on the river to enjoy sunsets, ice cream, and great mother nature!

Our group received American Canoe Association instructor training here in May of 2014 headed up by Tom Lindblade and Steve Shapiro. It is an excellent place to play and to sharpen skills in a safer whitewater park. Marge is honored greatly by this park! Steve Voss and Tracy Hunt was also in the mix helping us find the perfect form and strokes. Thanks to everyone!! I highly recommend taking ACA paddling classes to get out there and have fun and be safe while doing so.

There isn't a lot of whitewater in Illinois, but what there was, Marge Cline was on. The 3 photos I've attached are of Marge Cline doing headstands on the Mazon river enjoying herself (don't try this on your own, some things are best just left for Marge to do). I was lucky enough to go thru a ACA canoe instructor training class with her and we had her and her son Michael out with our scout troop once to work with our scouts. Neither Marge nor Michael walk the earth anymore, but they live on in the waterways in and around our state and beyond. (Credit Sigrid for the photos she sent me when I was doing the IPC newsletter)

Perfect place for the beginning whitewater kayaker. Plenty of places to practice all the essentials of whitewater paddling in a safe setting.

It's such a beautiful and relaxing place to be.

Nice place to kayak or tube. Short little whitewater course.

Great place to practice and hone my whitewater kayaking skills!

Great community resource! Great Playground and the water was warmer than I expected.