Pier Park ( 10421 N Lombard St, Portland, OR 97203 ) is my local spot in St Johns OR and one of my favorites. Designed and Built By Dreamland Skateparks the park starts with a S-Curve section that leads down to the main park that runs down to Pier’s four main sections: a street section, a medium bowl, a small bowl, and a monster bowl with a full pipe in the center. This concrete park is in really good shape and rather fast, with 4 ledges, a stair gap, and three handrails. Don’t expect to be able to slide out if you bail in the bowls, while the concrete is smooth it tends to just grab your pads and pull them down, I have fucked up my knees a few times. If at all possible I found its best to run out if you hang up or eat shit.
Portland Oregon (and its surrounding areas) is surprisingly a great skateboarding town, PDX “is the first city in the world to have a comprehensive master plan for skateboard park development. SPS conceived of and advocated for a Skatepark System Plan in 2001. It was adopted by Portland Parks & Recreation's skatepark advisory committee and carefully applied to existing park sites over a 24-month planning and public input period, and ultimately supported and passed by Portland’s five elected officials, its city council on August 3, 2005” 1 City council supported and passed a plan for the creation of 19 parks in Aug 2005, But since then more have been supported and built in Portland and the surrounding metro areas. I have found over 100+ parks within 200 miles of Downtown Portland OR, where the majority of them are located, the furthest South West being in Reedsport OR, furthest North in Brier WA, And the furthest East in Ellensburg WA. A few of them are indoors private pay to s
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