The Rio Vista Park is a 13-acre (53,000 m2) park located on the dam, which serves as a local hotspot for swimming, tubing, canoeing and kayaking.
Read more about this topic: Rio Vista Dam
Famous quotes containing the words rio, vista and/or park:
“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman.”
—Caroline A. Huling (1857–1941)
“The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,”
—Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)