Riverfront Street Design

The City of Bend and the Bend Park and Recreation District are partnering to produce a construction-ready design for Riverfront Street that provides the missing link of the Deschutes River Trail between Drake Park and Miller’s Landing Park.

The purpose of the project is to produce a construction-ready design for Riverfront Street that 1) provides the missing link of the Deschutes River Trail between Drake Park and Miller’s Landing Park, 2) rebuilds Riverfront Street to address its failing pavement conditions, and 3) upgrades the existing stormwater system.

Improving the transportation system by focusing on safety is a City Council goal. Creating safer connections between neighborhoods, places of work, schools, parks and businesses, for people who ride bikes, walk or roll, is a City priority. The City is designing a variety of safer and more accessible bike and pedestrian routes throughout the community.

Based on public feedback, the City of Bend and Bend Park and Recreation District plan to proceed with a one-way design concept of Riverfront Street. Next, during the design phase of the project, the City will refine the one-way concept.

Riverfront Street between Drake Park and Miller’s Landing Park.

• Data Collection – through Spring 2024
• Alternatives Analysis – Spring 2024-Fall 2024
• Utility Coordination / Design – 2025

*Schedule dates are estimates and subject to change.

This project is funded through design only.  Any future funding for construction must be determined at a later date.

• If you missed the first neighborhood meeting on April 18, 2024, here is the presentation and here is the aerial map of Riverfront Street.
• If you missed the second meeting on Oct. 30, 2024, here is the Riverfront Street Design Meeting #2 Presentation and the design alternatives shown: Concept 1, One-Way and Concept 2, Two-Way.
• Additional meetings in 2025 have not yet been scheduled.

This project includes data collection, analysis and designs that may:

• Design a multi-use trail that connects the missing segment of the Deschutes River Trail
• Design Riverfront Street improvements to address failing pavement conditions
• Design upgrades to existing stormwater system to include pre-treatment to help protect the Deschutes River
• Design improvements of the transitions at Miller’s Landing Park and Gilchrist Avenue
• Design parking on one side of Riverfront Street