SkateparkNews

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

LIVINGSTON, MI-Skateboarding is not a crime; just ask Brighton Nazarene Church family pastor Tim Wessel, whose church has taken the phrase “holy roller” to the extreme. With an indoor skate park, video arcade, indoor cafe and a paintball course, “The Naz” has also taken an unconventional approach to connecting with area youth, making it one [...]

School’s barely out on a recent afternoon and the Ruben Pier Memorial Skatepark is already packed with dozens of skateboarders, BMX bicyclists and kids on scooters. The skaters don’t care for the rap the two-week old facility in Sherwood Park has gotten because of incidents of vandalism and littering. They say that nobody who cares [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ESCONDIDO — Skateboarders who donate two cans of food next week at the Escondido Bike and Skate Park in Kit Carson Park will be able to skate for half-price. The food will be donated to Feeding America San Diego, which will use it to feed San Diego County children and adults during the holidays. In [...]

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — It is hoped an indoor skatepark expected to open in the coming weeks near Martinsburg will be a regional attraction, said R. Stephen Catlett, executive director of the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Parks & Recreation Board. Designed primarily for BMX, the 6,100-square-foot facility at 39 Kelly Island Road is in a former cold storage [...]

The California Heritage Museum opened today the exhibit “SKATEBOARD: Evolution and Art in California”, that traces the evolution of boards from pre-1950 to the present, showcasing riders, designers, artists, and manufacturers. Guest curated by legendary Z-boy Nathan Pratt in conjunction with museum staff curator Michael Trotter and advisory committee members Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, Cris [...]