In 2006, the Waterfront Development Corporation began developing the master plan for Riverview Park in Southwest Jefferson County. The plan is now complete. Two landscape architecture firms, Carman Associates of Lexington and De Leon + Primmer of Louisville, have developed unique solutions for a dynamic park on the river’s edge in an area vulnerable to flooding.

Park development will include improvements and better parking for the boat ramp, a neat children's play area, multi-use play fields and a walking track on the dry side of the levee and a number of nature walk paths meandering throughout the 85 acre park. These paths culminate in the far western tip of the park, with the Edge Crossing, which takes you on a sweeping path up and through the natural forest and down to the river’s edge, where an extendable gangway will allow visitors to walk directly over the Ohio River as far as 80 feet.

The Riverview Park master plan (click drawing for a printable version) includes multi-use play fields and a walking track near the entrance at Cane Run Road, and natural wooded areas, event space, and a new playground on the river side of the levee.

Plans for the playground include a treehouse structure where kids can climb and play.

The playing fields will be unmarked to allow use for numerous sports, like baseball, football and soccer. Five laps around the walking track that surrounds the play fields will equal two miles.

The path through the woods to the river's edge will include areas that are slightly elevated (above) and an area that lets you walk through the treetops (below).

At the river's edge, an extendable gangway will allow visitors to walk out over the river. The gangway is designed to rise into the protective shell during periods of extremely high water.