LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Waterfront Park is once again in the running for "Best Riverwalk" in the country. 

Louisville is in the running to be named “Best Riverwalk,” in America. Earlier this month USA Today Reader’s Choice Awards named Louisville’s Waterfront Park as a finalist in the competition.

On Tuesday, Spectrum News met up with Deborah Bilitski along the riverfront and she wasn’t the only person there enjoying the warm January day. Bilitski is the executive director of Waterfront Park and pleased to be in the running for USA Today’s Readers’ Choice Best Riverfront in the country.

“And we just know that we’ve got the most beautiful riverwalk in the country. We just need the rest of the world to know this and we need our community to come together and we need our community to come together and vote every day,” Bilitski said.

It’s the same online contest Louisville placed 4th a year ago. Bilitski said Louisville‘s waterfront’s transformation has been happening for all of the 30 years she’s lived in the city.

“There’s a whole generation of people now who never knew that his space was not accessible, that you couldn’t get to the river, that you couldn’t enjoy this amazing view,” Bilitski said.

Believe it or not, the well-manicured public space of Waterfront Park was once sprawling industrial blight. Waterfront Park is now entering Phase IV, a 22-acre, $50 million expansion that will transform the waterfront between 9th and 14th Street.

“It will have amenities unlike anything that we already have here,” Bilitski explained.

With so much on the horizon, Louisville may be in the running for years to come.

“Being on this list and selected for one of the 10 Best Riverwalks in the country for the third year in a row is just something that we are very proud of and this community should be very proud of," she said.

To vote, click here.