Newberg Skatepark

Newberg Skatepark (1201 S. Blaine Street Newberg, OR. 97132) is about an hour SW of Portland. Built in 2000 by Dreamland Skateparks this 29,000 sq. ft. park is a pretty cool spot with a variety of stuff to hit throughout this sprawling park. Going from the left to right when entering you first encounter a round transition that comes to a flattened round point that at one point spun, continuing left you encounter a long 4/5ft offset 2 kidney shaped bowl that is super fun with great lines. At the far end of this bowl is a role in from a higher 5ft kidney shaped half bowl that ls pretty challenging from a goofy rider’s perspective but is really fun. To the left of the first bowl is a doubled hump with a 4ft handrail that spans the humps that leads up to the higher 5ft kidney shaped half bowl. This section is personally my favorite as I was able to create some really fun lines incorporating all aspects of that section of the park.

At the back of the park, next to the 5ft kidney bowl is the big section of this park, and it’s pretty big, 14ft “L” shaped half bowl that leads to the back wall of the park that is also 14ft give or take that leads to the flat before you encounter 5/6ft rounded hump with a 5/6ft table top with a ledge rail on the left that leads to a 6ft transitions on the left and on the right a 6ft tall rounded mound that is bordered by transitions varying in heights from the other obstacles of the park, This leads to a mostly 6ft bowl with transitions that go up to about 9ft that is really fun and has some interesting transitions throughout.

From this point you are basically at the entrance of the park, this section consists basically of flat bordered by transitions in varying heights with various obstacles throughout. One of the things I liked about Newberg is that you can connect lines from the various obstacles and basically create a line that runs the length of the park. For the most part all of the copping and concrete was in surprisingly good shape for being 21 years old, but you will come across some sections of concrete breaking away from some of the copping, but I did not hang up on anything. Additionally, the concrete is fairly smooth throughout, but as I ride Bones 104b’s, I was working a bit harder to pump to keep up speed so a bit softer wheels next time I hit up.

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