![]() Heins & Alison Stoven O’Connor** Quick Facts… Erie is getting its park soon.Revised by Roger G. New parks are under construction in Northglenn and Arvada, too. Go try out your free, municipally funded skateparks. Wacky Factor: With the best parks come some of the worst crowdsĭon’t just take our word for it…go skate! Find your grind. Getting to them can be the issue.ĭesign and Construction: One of the best in the stateįun Factor: Get there early before the crowds and you can enjoy everythingĬrash-Up Derby Factor: Very high. The obstacles are fun, challenging and well built. ![]() New skaters, old skaters, still even older skaters, bikers, scooterers, remote control cars, kite fliers, unicyclists, pogo sticks, land sharks and teenagers just hanging out. With that, you’ll generally find everyone there. Constructed by Team Pain, it offers something for everyone. In stark contrast to Louisville lays the latest and greatest park in the Front Range: the new Lafayette Skatepark. Lights make for fun, mellow night sessions.ĭesign and Construction: Should have gone with a skater-owned company!įun Factor: With the right crowd, it can be a blast Since it’s not a traditionally “good” park, it’s generally not very crowded. Despite that, Louisville has a young crop of kids that frequent this park and have made it the fun spot that it is. Unfortunately, too many hands in the pot resulted in the product not living up to the hopes. Wacky Factor: I’ve learned a lot of new “colorful” words while skating here.Ī lot of planning went into this park. The bowls are challenging, and the stairs and ledges are pretty big. Not so friendly for beginners, but one of the best parks to view a sunset while skating. Old Guy Factor: Yeah, good parks bring out the seniorsīig park with a lot of big obstacles. The bowls are fast, fun and challenging.ĭesign and Construction: Top notch but not very big There is a “streetscape” filled with lots of ledges, some banks and a brick ¼ pipe. The new park (which resides where “The Cage” used to be) was built by skater-owned Team Pain and is a fun place that even has lights. With one of the newer parks and a great core skateshop in the area, Broomfield has a nice, budding skate scene. Most people, though, avoid it like the plague and would rather spend their time on the back-and-forth “street” section that has a couple of stairs, a few rails and some wacky ledges.ĭesign and Construction: Leaves a little to be desired It’s 10 feet at its deepest and has pool coping, steps, a love seat, hips and waterfalls. This park boasts one of the biggest and most challenging bowls on the Front Range. Not a very good park for going fast or doing “lines.” There is, however, a small “kiddie” part that is fun and great for beginners.įun Factor: Smiles to be found in the kiddie sectionĬrash-Up Derby Factor: Yeah, watch for bikes, scooters and ICP fans! It’s got some banks, some small transitions and a lot of stairs and ledges that lead to nowhere. Zuni is a smaller park with a pretty standard design from a generic non-skater-owned builder. ![]() That is why Yellow Scene and Lafayette’s Square State Skate present this…your North Metro Skatepark Guide. As a lifelong skater who grew up without many parks, it’s incredibly frustrating to finally see municipalities believing in the need for skateparks only to have them turn their backs on the needs of skaters when it comes to planning and building. Some of them, in fact, are absolute wastes of time and public money. Of course, not every one of these parks is worth visiting. 36 between Denver and Boulder can lead you to a skatepark. ![]() There are nearly 200 parks in our state, with new ones popping up faster than pimples on the average teen skater’s face. “Maybe we should let the kids decide,” we finally agreed.Ĭolorado boasts the second most skateparks per capita in the union, behind only Oregon. “And Fort Collins’ skate-Mecca is just a little too far…” “I’m still nursing this ‘swellbow’ from the last visit to Loveland…” “Should we indulge in Lafayette’s many obstacles, investigate Longmont’s big, open design or challenge ourselves to find something worthwhile at Superior’s Rock Creek Skatepark?” “What park should we go to on Friday?” Neil and I pondered as we planned our summer program. If you’re not comfortable on your board, are still learning the lingo or are just learning to ride that board, give them a call at 720.999.4513. Square State Skate offers lessons, camps and clubs. Brian Ball is the co-owner of Square State Skate in Lafayette.
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