Stronger Skatepark

Stronger skatepark (6102 SE King Rd, Milwaukie, OR 97222) located in Milwaukie OR is just outside downtown Portland OR. The all wood park is located in a mini mall and is pay to play per two-hour session. You need to go to their website and pick a specific time to skate so just don’t show up and expect to skate. Currently with Covid-19 they are limiting people in the park at 10 per session and you need to wear a mask. It’s worth a note that this park is geared to kids, think Scooters kids, and kids just learning. They also offer classes and sessions catering to learning the basics for kids, all girls skate, queer skate night, quads and inline skate classes, stuff like that.

The park itself is not real big but I actually like this park specifically for the mini ramp they have. The mini ramp is about 5ft at the extensions 4ft all around and is about 20ft or 25ft wide give or take. It's in good shape and has nice copping that grinds well. The mini ramp is spined to a quarter pipe that runs the length of the half pipes lower section at 4ft with a 5ft section in the center that leads to the street section. To one side of the mini ramp you have a little 2ft quarter pipe that is feed from a flat declined transition that has a ledge rail on one side.

The street section consists of one permanent obstacle centered on the back wall, it's a pyramid tabletop/launch with a flat ledge that runs over the length of the pyramid. The other permanent section is on the front end of the park and it consists of a inclined flat transition with a handrail, a gap and flat inclined ledge that leads to a flat area with a 1.5ft transition with coping on the top of the flat running the length of the entrance window wall. The rest of the street section consists of a variety of movable rails, fun boxes, and launches that you can move around depending on what you are feeling.

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