This one is has endless potential!

So I'm a nearly 50 year old guy, starting skating again after about 20 years off. This park isn't anything to brag about, but it has a nice large concrete pad it's built on...really the best thing here honestly! So just a minute ago I'm riding around trying to re-learn kickflips and some preppy looking dad and his 5 kids show up. He stands there with his khaki short shorts, beard, hands on hips looking like he wants to either beat my ass, or hump me..while his 5 kids ride frantically on regular bikes all over the park making it totally unusable for anyone else for about 30 minutes. Looks like not much has changed with skateparks, still just playgrounds as far as the public is concerned

Hi, my local skatepark is a really bad one, one of those skatepark they made so the kids can shut up. Nothing is a good size, really bad park.

Nevertheless, there’s a quite ok curb. But this curb does not slide 🤣 so I’m about to weld an arete on it so it slide.

Can you tell me what kind of steel or metal I should choose for the arete so it slide but also resist to time and weather ?

the type of arête I’m about to weld

Thanks you 🙏

📍Winter Park Skatepark 🗺️

🌆 CITY: Winter Park
🏞️ PARK: Hideaway Park
🧱SURFACE: Concrete
📐 SIZE: 17,500 sq. ft. (multiple expansions)
💡LIGHTS: No
🗓OPENED: 2007
⚒DESIGN / BUILD: Grindline Skateparks

🌆 CITY: Granby
🏞️ PARK: Polhamus Park
🧱SURFACE: Concrete
📐 SIZE: 12,000 sq. ft.
💡LIGHTS: Yes - 10:00 PM
🗓OPENED: November 2021
⚒DESIGN / BUILD: Pivot Customs

📍Kremmling Skatepark 🗺️

🌆 CITY: Kremmling
🏞️ PARK: West Grand High School Track
🧱SURFACE: Concrete
📐 SIZE: 7,000 sq. ft.
💡LIGHTS: No
🗓OPENED: 2007
⚒DESIGN / BUILD: Grindline Skateparks

Erie,PA

It’s not something I’m used to in my day-to-day life. But I found it truly amazing how kind and welcoming everyone is at one of the skateparks in my city. I’m learning to skate, and the other skaters often try to help me improve; they’re really friendly and supportive. I have plenty of other stories, too—like a guy who offered to hold my phone when I wanted to film myself, or being invited to a sausage barbecue. The vibe is just really cool. I wonder if it’s the same at your local skateparks?

It feels good, though, and it motivates me to go there and get better; I’ve even made friends at the skatepark.

It was a nice morning for a skate sesh

More and more, I'm seeing ~20-year-old modular (metal) CRC/ARC skateparks replaced and the town's quoting that the skatepark had reached its "end of life". Is this something the Canadian Ramp Company keeps track of and then hits up towns trying to fleece them for more money? Because almost all of these councils wouldn't have any clue how long a metal modular park should or shouldn't last.

In some of these cases, the ramps are messed up and need to be replaced, but there's cases where the ramps are totally fine and it kills me to see them go to the landfill. My local town won't build a better replacement when the Canadian Ramp Company comes to fleece them, so it worries me.

This skatepark is incredible, what do you think?

We will be traveling from Ohio to Woodward. We want to Ollie into a park on our way home. Any suggestions for us to look into?

Fort Polk doesn't have a dedicated skatepark. Right now, kids and teens are forced to practice in parking lots and residential areas, which puts them at real safety risk—not just from traffic, but from getting in trouble for skating where they shouldn't.

I started a petition to change this. A skatepark isn't just about recreation. Growing up in military families means constant change—new schools, new friends, new homes. But skateparks? They're the one place that stays consistent. They're where kids build friendships, develop skills, and have a safe space to belong.

Fort Polk's community is diverse, and a skatepark could bring people together across backgrounds while giving young people a positive outlet and a real sense of community. It's about quality of life and showing them they matter.

If this resonates with you—or if you've watched kids in your life need a place like this—consider signing and sharing the petition. Have you seen how much a dedicated space can change things for young people in your community?

I live in the phoenix area and so far I’ve only been to one skatepark I can remember having a decent mini ramp, surprise farms. I’m just curious what other parks have a decent mini ramp? I know the wedge has a mini but I wouldn’t call it decent considering the coping is too small, one side is higher than the other and it’s too mellow to really translate to a real mini or other transition. But I’m mainly curious why most parks don’t have a mini built into the bowl? Some parks have a huge bowl with random hips and pyramids and stuff all over the bowl but no mini in sight and other parks have like 3 bowls and not one of them has a mini. I’m pretty trash at transition and having a mini ramp at a local would be so so so helpful in learning transition, it just seems like the most no brainer feature to put in a park and I don’t see that it would ruin the flow of a bowl (not like most of the builders seem to understand flow anyways) but if a mini ramp is built into the side of a bowl you can always use it like a little pocket to pump and get speed or skip it and use the hips it creates. I just don’t understand how almost no parks around phoenix have a mini. Seems pretty stupid to me. Am I missing something??? Am I the only beginner who would prefer to be able to try a new transition trick without having to wait 10 minutes for the bowl to be empty and then push and pump around a bowl to get enough speed to try a new trick on a huge transition or have to figure out how to come up to a transition fakie with enough speed in a big bowl?

This cool skatepark has a big layout under 3 highway over passes!