Colorado communities have spent millions of dollars on whitewater parks. Are they worthwhile? - Aspen Journalism

Colorado communities have spent millions of dollars on whitewater parks. Are they worthwhile? - Aspen Journalism

Listen to the audio version: There’s an old catchphrase that Colorado kayak park proponents used in the early 2000s to sell the idea that keeping water in streams mattered just as much as water for big farms or new housing developments: “The greater the flow, the greater the dough.” “You would have thought it was an Economics 101 class,” said Glenn Porzak, a Boulder attorney who worked on behalf of the city of Golden and the towns of Breckenrid…

Colorado communities have spent millions of dollars on whitewater parks. Are they worthwhile?

There’s an old catchphrase that Colorado kayak park proponents used in the early 2000s to sell the idea that keeping water in streams mattered just as much as water for big farms or new housing developments: “The greater the flow, the greater the dough.” “You would have thought it was an Economics 101 class,” said […]