SkateparkNews

Yesterday, the ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Parks Department, city and state officials, and Joe and Gavin Maloof opened up the new skate park at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Today and tomorrow, the skate park, which features skating elements from all over the city, will host the Maloof Money Cup with [...]

Holland, MI — Plans are becoming more concrete for a skatepark in Holland’s Smallenburg Park. “I honestly didn’t think it’d be this good,” said skateboarder and skatepark committee member D.J. Plummer. The 17-year-old said he feels out of place in the middle of Hope College activities where the city’s existing skatepark, Lincoln Park, sits. The skatepark there is [...]

Homeowners Association Paid for Construction of Facility Starting this weekend, skateboarders in eastern Loudoun will no longer have to drive elsewhere to get their fill of nosegrinds, frontslides and fakies. This Saturday, Dec. 12, the first Loudoun County-owned skate park will open in South Riding. Built for $150,000 over a 37-day period, the concrete park [...]

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Skatepark Systems, the single resource for award-winning skatepark development, announced the launch of Skateparkology, a complimentary informational webinar series for community recreation planners who are looking to build a new skatepark or expand an existing park. The first webinar, which will provide a comprehensive overview of the skatepark [...]

MARTINSBURG, WV – So what if their skatepark doesn’t have heat? Skateboarders and BMX riders around the region are simply grateful they now have one to call home. The Berkeley County BMX/Skatepark was officially dedicated Tuesday night in its location, an old cold-storage warehouse that previously stored apples and other fruits. The facility is adjacent to [...]

VISTA, CA – Vista won’t be replacing its skatepark any time soon, City Council members decided Tuesday when they axed a proposal to put the park in a proposed stormwater detention basin near South Santa Fe Avenue and Monte Vista Drive. The decision was a blow to local skateboarders, who have been without a park since [...]

MARSHFIELD, MISSOURI – Many of the 60 Strafford residents at the Tuesday, Nov. 10, Parks and Recreation Committee meeting brought their transportation into City Hall with them. Others left a jumble of bicycles outside the door as they went inside to learn what it would take to build a municipal skatepark. Often using their skateboards to [...]

WILSONVILLE, OREGON – Wilsonville’s current 3,500-square-foot skate spot was built in Memorial Park in 1999. In 2005 an effort was begun to work with Wilsonville’s Community Services Department, Park and Recreation Advisory Board, and the city council to create a plan for expanding the skateboarding options in Wilsonville. This led to the city council adopting the [...]

PETERBOROUGH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND – Peterborough’s extreme sport community has been boosted with the news of a £100,000 development of Stanground skatepark. Youngsters who regularly use the park, in Thurning Road, behind the community centre in Whittlesey Road, have successfully gained the sizeable sum through Peterborough City Council’s Young Peoples’ Service. The breakthrough follows a raft of meetings [...]

PETERBOROUGH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, ENGLAND – Desperate for a new indoor skatepark to be built in Peterborough, a talented skateboarder has taken matters into his own hands. Rieaston Meins lives just a stone’s throw away from the city’s former indoor park Y2SK8, in Fletton, which closed two years ago, and has been campaigning for a replacement. But having recently [...]