October 16, 2024

Carrying the Torch - One year as Cuyahoga River AOC's Champion of the River

October 16, 2024/ Share the River

Yesterday’s Bedrock & Cleveland Cavaliers Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center ground-breaking event gave Share the River executive director Jim Ridge a moment to reflect. “It’s wonderful how a natural resource a city turned its back on is now being considered as a place people want to use as its front porch.'“ “Bedrock and the Cavs embrace of a revitalized natural resource like the Cuyahoga River is heartening and it’s sobering to consider some of us may be gone before the 15-20 years it will take to complete the $3.5 billion, 35-acre riverfront development project”.

April 22, 2024

Earth Day - this is Cleveland's Cuyahoga River NOW!

April 22, 2024/ Share the River

We do wish more journalists (and their editors) would flip the script and instead of looking back on the bad old days, they take a look at the ONE river in the world that can elegantly and directly speak to how far the ecological movement has come for a variety of reasons.

February 26, 2023

Blazing Paddles Paddlefest thoughts at Brite Winter 2023

February 26, 2023/ Share the River

As we finalize planning for our Fifth Annual Blazing Paddles Paddlefest on July 21-22, 2023 we’re VERY curious about what you’d like us to provide (remember, “a vision without resources is a hallucination” and YES, sponsorship and organization partner opportunities are available) so our rapidly growing Cleveland waterfront event sustainably and properly represents Cleveland’s cool summer vibe that Brite Winter does so well in winter.

February 06, 2022

Slow River Episode 10: The Frieghter Alpena Returns to Cleveland's Cuyahoga River for Winter Layup

February 06, 2022/ Share the River

Local Great Lakes freighter fans were abuzz on a balmy first day of February when the classic freighter Alpena made its way from Lake Erie to its winter layup on the Cuyahoga River.

September 19, 2021

25th Annual Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta Photo Galleries

September 19, 2021/ Share the River

Cleveland Rowing Foundation’s 25th Annual Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta’s return on a splendid September day in Cleveland where over 1400 rowers in 441 shells from 50 clubs and 12 states competed on a 4,900-meter course on the Cuyahoga River!.

August 19, 2021

Kids That Tri Cleveland Gets Kids Out for Open Water Swimming in Lake Erie Before Tri CLE Rock Roll Run Triathlon

August 19, 2021/ Share the River

On a beautiful Sunday morning at Cleveland Metroparks Edgewater Beach, youngsters from the Kids That Tri Cleveland program took their first open water strokes in Lake Erie after a winter and spring of pool-only training. The swim was part of the broader Kids That Tri program, in partnership with the Parker Hannafin Downtown YMCA, that was created to provide a pathway for children of the Greater Cleveland area to learn how to swim, bike, and run and participate in a competitive triathlon.

August 09, 2021

Ohio River Paddlefest Celebrates 20 Years of Paddling the Ohio

August 09, 2021/ Share the River

Saturday’s 20th Annual Ohio River Paddlefest in Cincinnati, OH was a return to normalcy for almost 2,000 paddlers hungry for the opportunity to reconnect with each other and the Ohio River.

July 25, 2021

3rd Annual Blazing Paddles Paddlefest from Ground Level

July 25, 2021/ Share the River

Today is a variation on our weekly "Slow River" where we share ground level video with natural sound from yesterday’s AMAZING Blazing Paddles Paddlefest on Cleveland’s hard-working, historic, and scenic Cuyahoga River. Many thanks to our tireless volunteers, sponsors, Cuyahoga River industrial stakeholders, partner organizations, kayak rental livery partners, and yes, you, our Blazing Paddles paddlers!

July 18, 2021

Slow River Episode 8: Sculler Shimmer on the Old Cuyahoga River Channel

July 18, 2021/ Share the River

This week’s Slow River episode is a short one. In September 2015 we had the pleasure of collaborating on an amazing project with visual storytellers Ben Harper and Christopher Cymbalak at Breakwall Media. The sunrise shimmer of the Cleveland skyline as the launch’s gentle wake made its way across the Cuyahoga’s old river channel was a thing of beauty.

July 03, 2021

New York City's Shade Throw Shines a Light on Cleveland's H20 History

July 03, 2021/ Share the River

It was the tweet that launched 4,100 replies and counting. We surmise on a late Friday afternoon heading into the Fourth of July weekend a young staffer was flipped the keys to the City of New York’s Twitter account and in a misguided attempt to throw literal shade at the City of Cleveland, they sparked a flurry of responses from proud Clevelanders and others.

June 15, 2021

Electric Hydrofoil Surfboard is the Latest Narrative Changer for the Cuyahoga River

June 15, 2021/ Share the River

On a breezy Tuesday afternoon we caught this gent having a great time on his electric hydrofoil surfboard. A quick check of the web show these boards can run upwards of $12k. Fliteboard out of Australia (go figure) seems to be a market leader. What will be the next thing?

June 13, 2021

Slow River: View from Shooters of Cleveland Air Show Scrum on the Cuyahoga River at NS1

June 13, 2021/ Share the River

We dig into the archives for this week's third installment of Slow River: The day was the 2018 Cleveland Air Show viewed from Shooters on the Water.

June 10, 2021

Day Three of Industrial Heartland & Cleveland Trails Summit: Euclid Waterfront Walkshop

June 10, 2021/ Share the River

Day three of the week-long Industrial Heartland & Cleveland Trails Summit featured an in-person tour of the Euclid Waterfront Improvement Project led by City of Euclid’s Mayor Kirsten Holzheimer Gail, and Planning and Development Director Allison Lukacsy-Love.

September 23, 2019

2019 Head of the Cuyahoga Photo Gallery

September 23, 2019/ Share the River

The Cuyahoga River’s hard-working waterfront provided a great backdrop for Cleveland Rowing Foundation’s annual Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta, a 3.1 mile rowing race that drew close to 2,000 athletes to Cleveland on Saturday.

July 15, 2019

A BIG Weekend for Cleveland's Waterfront (photos and video).

July 15, 2019/ Share the River

It seemed there was something going on along every piece of Cleveland’s waterfront this past weekend with:

The Tall Ships Festival Parade of Sail kicking off affairs on Thursday afternoon.
An open water swim at Edgewater Park hosted by North Coast Multisports that served as a tune-up for the USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships returning to Cleveland August 9-10.
An SUP Yoga session with SUP CLE at Wendy Park.
A birds-eye view of recreational kayaks interacting with the freighter Sam Laud as it transited the lower Cuyahoga River (more on that in a future post).

July 03, 2019

The 2019 Blazing Paddles Paddlefest Blazes a New Cuyahoga River Narrative

July 03, 2019/ Share the River

A new narrative for Cleveland was blazed as 250 paddlers on kayaks, paddleboards, and canoes took part in a historic celebration on the Cuyahoga River, 50 years to the day since the 1969 fire ignited the environmental movement.

June 20, 2018

Here Comes the Ramble and Blazing Paddles, Celebrating How Far the Cuyahoga River Has Come Since 1969

June 20, 2018/ Share the River

s there a better way to celebrate how far the Cuyahoga River (and Cleveland) has come since the June 22, 1969 fire than a run/walk of the Cuyahoga River trails followed by GREAT music and Fat Head's Brewery beer?

May 18, 2018

The Faces and Voices of RiverSweep

May 18, 2018/ Share the River

Saturday's RiverSweep saw over 700 volunteers fan out across the Cuyahoga River corridor to be part of what Canalway Partners calls "Ohio's largest done-in-a day clean-up". Individuals, students, and organizations descended upon 9 clean-up sites in the Cuyahoga River watershed and after three hours of effort, headed to Hart Crane Park for Sainato's pizza and music.

March 23, 2018

Coffee Outside on the Cuyahoga River with Joy Machines Bicycle Shop

March 23, 2018/ Share the River

Joy Machine's Bicycle Shop decide to host a pop-up event called simply enough "Coffee Outside" at the "spoon", Canalway Partners' name for the Scranton Flats pier jutting out over the river.

March 19, 2018

St. Patrick's Day along the Cuyahoga River Waterfront

March 19, 2018/ Share the River

After the Cleveland St. Patrick's Day Parade we took a quick swing along the Cuyahoga River to see what the post-parade scene was like.

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