‘It’s for our whole community’: Craig River Park opens a new chapter on the Yampa River

‘It’s for our whole community’: Craig River Park opens a new chapter on the Yampa River

On an early May morning along the banks of the Yampa River, Melanie Kilpatrick paused for a moment as she looked across the recently completed Craig Whitewater Park. Following six years of planning, fundraising, engineering, construction and problem-solving, the vision she had spent much of her professional life helping bring to reality was finally complete. “It is magical,” Kilpatrick said. “I get on the verge of getting emotional and just pure…