Riverview Park
Riverview Park is a spacious and scenic park located along the Saint Joseph River in St Joseph, MI. It features a variety of amenities including baseball fields, picnic tables, barbecue grills, covered shelters, playgrounds, and restrooms. The park offers paved walking paths, open fields, and beautiful mature trees providing ample shade. There are nature trails and river views that offer opportunities for hiking and wildlife observation. The park is wheelchair accessible with accessible parking and entrances. It is a popular spot for families, dog walking, and outdoor activities, though some trails may be buggy and certain areas can flood due to high water levels.
Reviews
Quite a large park area with open views of the St. Joseph River. Large mature trees are located throughout providing islands of shade on warm summer days. There are denser woods on one side with an easy walking path through them. There are also restrooms here. My four footed friend is estatic when we go there.
Riverview Park is a gorgeous space with a baseball field, boat launch, charcoal grills, covered shelters, picnic tables, a couple of playgrounds, bathrooms, and a lodge that can be rented, all in a park right on the Saint Joseph river. Due to the high water levels currently, large areas of the park are under water, including the baseball diamond.
Nice park with a lot of paved walking paths, some fields, and lots of access to the river. Tons of beautiful trees as well everywhere you look.
Great place to take a walk, or sit and enjoy river activity.
Close to Riverview Cemetary, a great place to stroll and see history in tomb stones
I’ve been going to Riverview Park in Saint Joseph since I was a younger child attending family reunions there. If you haven’t been recently the landscape has changed considerably with all of the water overflow from the river. Places that used to be green grass are now filled with cat tails and have become a bit of a wetland. As part of the Chikaming open lands #chikamingopenlands #10trail Challenge I revisited these nature trails for the first time in probably 10 to 12 years. I was excited to see some new stuff, but saddened that some of the old trails and boardwalks/bridges are no longer accessible and have not been maintained. If you park at the bathrooms right at the entrance to the park , You would be remiss to believe that you should just do the nature trail and you’re good to go. If you walk the entire perimeter of the park you’ll get about 2 miles in and get some beautiful views. Wildlife here is amazingly abundant as you can see in the pictures, there were many other ducks, Heron/Crane type birds That I was not fast enough to get pictures of. Scared up a pair of baby deer while in the trail nature trail and then got a glimpse of the one running across the field near the pond at the entrance. I did get one picture of some kind of heron/crane From a distance in the pond area if you’re so inclined to try and find it feel free to say found it on that picture it’s a little hard to locate. Most of the trails are packed dirt, mowed grass Or gravel roads. The trail itself is not handicap accessible there are a couple places where there are smaller trees down that you have to hop over. Bring bug spray yes this is a very buggy place due to the amount of water that overflows from the river.