SkateparkNews

Get warmed up for Dew Tour on the “gnarl wall” Baltimore Sun By Brooks Welsh Looking for a place to get amped for Dew Tour? Check out Ocean Bowl Skate Park, the oldest municipal skate park in the county. First opened in 1976 as a result of a city wide ban of skateboarding, Ocean Bowl has been a staple of the city since its opening. With a small bowl, back…

phillyBurbs.com By Kristen Coppock MEDFORD — It won’t be long before skateboarders will be practicing their ollies, grinds and air grabs at Freedom Skatepark. Work on the shuttered skate park is scheduled to begin later this month. It will reopen in the coming months as a dual-use facility, allowing BMX riders access for the first time. Both groups will have individual schedules for using the sub-park. The park was closed…

Organizers of a planned community center and skateboard park in Crofton are pressing ahead with fundraising after receiving preliminary approval from the Anne Arundel County Council, which includes submitting detailed construction and operating plans and raising $2.5 million in each of the next three years to build the project. The County Council approved the plan, which was forged between County Executive John R. Leopold and the Crofton Regional Community Center,…

Hopewell skateboarders and supporters want to expand the city’s 10-year-old Skate Park. The Hopewell Skate Park, located next to the Community Center on City Point Road., is about 6,600 -square feet. The park has been a great success among skaters, many of whom are younger people. In fact, the park has been a victim of its own success. That’s because the park is often packed on the weekends, the skaters…

More than 100 students from four area colleges combined their manpower to take a bite out of world hunger Saturday. Students from Lynchburg College, Randolph College, Central Virginia Community College and Sweet Briar College teamed up with Raleigh, N.C.-based Stop Hunger Now and Lynchburg-based Sacred River Productions at a benefit event at Amazement Square’s Rotary Centennial Riverfront Skatepark. Over a few hours out of the eight-hour event, volunteers bagged 20,000…

MARLBORO — Young people in Marlboro may one day have a place to practice their ollies and other skateboarding tricks as municipal officials have applied for a Tony Hawk Foundation Skatepark Grant. A group of about 40 youths have formed the MSP, which stands for Marlboro Skate Park, with the help of the Marlboro Recreation Department. The young people are learning what it will take to develop and bring a…