SkateparkNews

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WELLAND, ONTARIO — When it comes to relocating Welland’s skatepark, there are a lot of options to be discussed. Ideas of where to put it, what it should be made of, and how it can be funded, were all discussed by a group of youths at a public meeting Saturday held at Youth Innovations in [...]

MEMBERS of Portishead Skatepark Project (PSP) are urging people in the town to pledge their support for a skatepark at the Lake Grounds. After several years of intensive effort by skateboarders, a formal planning application has now been submitted. The proposed park will be located close to the promenade, near the boathouse, and will comprise [...]

Backers seek to secure ‘huge’ chance to realize dream Supporters of Pemberton’s proposed skateboard park are firming up design plans for the long-awaited facility and gearing up for a push to secure a chunk of funding needed to complete the project. A workshop hosted last Wednesday (Nov. 4) by the Pemberton Skateboard Society and the [...]

COSHOCTON — Coshocton Mayor Steve Mercer and Recreation Director Steve Jones made a presentation to the Coshocton City School Board Thursday during its regular meeting for a partnership to erect a new skate park at the Himebaugh Lot on Orange Street. “It’s one of the most often made comments by the youth in Coshocton is [...]

Sydney skaters have welcomed news that Sydney Council will create a new skatepark under the Western Distributor near Wynyard station. Last month, the council endorsed a concept plan for the site to put forward for community consultation. Inner city skating advocate John Fox, who worked with councils including Manly in the 1980s to get facilities [...]

Council, skatepark board have three locations, but no decision WILSONVILLE, OREGON – It’s all about location, location, location. But choosing one seems to be a problem that no one can solve. Jim Barnes, a parent and organizer of the Wilsonville skatepark Association, said last week he is preparing to make a presentation to the Wilsonville [...]