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This is a list of notable skateparks.

Builders of skateparks include local skateboarders creating do it yourself / "barge board" parks. And some firms, including SITE Design Group, of Solana Beach, California, which asserts having designed more than 100.

The first skatepark to receive historic designation was the Bro Bowl, in Florida, listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The second was The Rom, in east London, England, which is Grade II listed.

Australia

Canada

Denmark

France

There are numerous current skateparks listed at skateparks.fr.

See also: Skatepark, in French-language Wikipedia

Germany

Jordan

Malaysia

Pasir Gudang Skate Park in Johor, Malaysia.

Netherlands

North Korea

Philippines

Serbia

Slovenia

  • Skate park Rog ("Skejt park Rog") – the first covered skate park in Slovenia, at Rog (factory)

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

Arizona

  • Surf City (1965), Tucson, Arizona. Asserted to be first skatepark in the world[5] Operated by Arizona Surf City Enterprises, Inc., it had concrete ramps.[6]

California

  • Carlsbad Skatepark (1976), Carlsbad. California's first skatepark. Home of World Skateboard Championships on April 10, 1977. Operated until 1979, then buried, then destroyed in 2005.[5] The current Carlsbad Skatepark is elsewhere.[7]
  • Pier Avenue Junior High School skatepark (1999), Hermosa Beach. Opened by the city, a small skatepark at the site of the first skateboard competition, which was organized by Dewey Weber across the street from his surf and skateboard shop. Makaha Skateboards was a sponsor of the competition.[8] School is now a museum.
  • etnies Skatepark, Lake Forest – Largest free skatepark in California.[9] 62,000 square feet (5,800 m2).
  • Pedlow Skate Park – Encino, California great for pool skating, more than 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2).
  • Santa Maria Skate Park – Fletcher Park. 700 Southside Pkwy, Santa Maria, California.
  • The Palm Springs Skatepark contains a replica of the Nude Bowl, which is the most popular feature in the park.[10]

Connecticut

  • CT Bike (1987), Bristol, Connecticut. All wooden indoor skate park, still in business today, despite a 1988 fire, operated by same family. Where Tony Hawk "made his debut when he was just a young boy on his first East Coast tour."

Florida

Kentucky

Maryland

  • Ocean Bowl Skate Park (1976), Ocean City, Maryland, first on East Coast, and oldest operating municipal skate park in the United States. Renovated/rebuilt in 1997–98.[12]

New Mexico

New York

Main article: Skateparks in New York City

Ohio

  • Skatopia – Anarchist Skatepark in Rutland, Ohio
  • The Flow Skatepark (2001-2013), Columbus. Was a world-famous[1] skatepark. At approximately 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2), The Flow was one of the largest indoor skateparks in the nation. It was voted #1 skatepark in the United States by Fuel TV.
Portland skatepark

Oregon

  • Burnside Skatepark, a do it yourself "barge build" beneath the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon. The modern skatepark designs of the Pacific Northwest can be traced back to this. Skateboarders used an area populated primarily by the city's "undesirable elements" to create a skatepark, building one section at a time. The process is called "design/build" (D/B), and is a characteristic of many skateparks today. The design/build process ensures that adjacent skatepark features are harmonious and rideable, allowing skateboarders to create endless "lines" to ride among the many features.
  • Burnside Skatepark, Portland, Oregon featured in Tony Hawk video games and the movie Paranoid Park.
  • Ashland Skate Park (1999[13]), Ashland. It's a "rad and versatile" park.[13] It was amidst some contention about families and surveillance cameras in 2018.[14] Which led to a camera has been set up. This may be a time-lapse film recording from today?

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

Main article: Skateparks in Virginia

Mount Trashmore Skatepark, in Virginia Beach, may be the most famous. With 24,000 square feet (2,200 m2), it is not the largest skatepark in the state.

Washington

  • A skatepark (1966), Kelso, Washington. For skateboarders and skaters, with plywood ramps, lighted for night use.[15]

Wisconsin

  • Turf Skatepark (1979), Milwaukee. Included five concrete pools in an indoor/outdoor facility (defunct since 1996).
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In more extreme climates, parks were built indoors, often using wood or metal. By the end of the 1970s, the popularity of skateboarding had waned, and the original parks of the era began to close. A downturn in the overall skateboard market in the 1980s, coupled with high liability insurance premiums, contributed to the demise of the first wave of skateparks. Some second-generation parks, such as Upland, California's Pipeline, survived into the 1980s. However, many public parks of that era can still be found throughout Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g 1970s Skateparks
  2. ^ Saintes
  3. ^ Rivera, Oliver Ross (15 January 2020). "Koronadal City goes extreme with newly-built skatepark FEATURE Koronadal City goes extreme with newly-built skatepark". Philippine Information Agency. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Tagaytay Extreme Sports Complex covered in ash". Rappler. 13 January 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  5. ^ a b McAlister, Mike. "Concrete Skatepark Tour – Candid". preview.arraythemes.com.
  6. ^ “Surfing – Tucson Style”, Tucson Daily Citizen, September 2, 1965
  7. ^ "Carlsbad Skatepark Update 5-20-05", "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2010-04-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "HB rode into skateboarding history", http://www.dailybreeze.com Archived 2005-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, 27 June 2004
  9. ^ "Etnies Skatepark Of Lake Forest Aerial". Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  10. ^ "City of Palm Springs – Skate Park". Ci.palm-springs.ca.us. Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
  11. ^ Matt Soergel (July 1, 2007). "KONA". The Florida Times-Union. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
  12. ^ "History". oceancitymd.gov. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  13. ^ a b "Ashland (Oregon)". SkateOregon. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
  14. ^ John Darling (July 19, 2018). "Families steer clear of Ashland Skate Park". Mail Tribune.
  15. ^ Popular Science Magazine, April 1966, p127
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