Our Mission
To work with the Arlington County government and National Park Service to build a community boathouse facility downriver from Key Bridge in Rosslyn. The Arlington Community Boathouse will offer an important new point of access for community members to appreciate and enjoy the Potomac as one of the area's most precious natural and recreational resources.
We are working to:
Create public access
to the Potomac River in Arlington County.
Establish a home
for the rowing programs of Arlington's public high schools
Host programs
with a variety of paddling and rowing opportunites for adults and youths
Ecological and environment education
Offered education opportunities on the Potomac River
The Arlington Boathouse Coalition is a local coalition comprised of alumni of the Arlington high school rowing programs, their parents and neighbors, and others who believe in the idea of Arlington access to the Potomac River.
The Arlington Boathouse Foundation, registered with the State Corporation Commission in 1991, is a legal entity that has been established to receive and disburse money in support of an Arlington Community Boathouse.