Keizer Skatepark

Keizer Skatepark is located in Keizer OR, (930 Chemawa Rd NE, Keizer, OR 97303) about 45mins south of Portland OR. I have to say that this park is not my favorite for a few reasons but mostly because the two times I have been there I have got broken. The 1st time I broke my wrist when I got wheel bite, the 2nd time I blew out my knee when I hit a wet spot that I did not notice in the bowl. I think the place is fucking cursed, but you can make up your own mind. The park has recently been refurbished by Dreamland, who did a good job but it still has some really rough concrete almost everywhere with exception of the bowls, halfpipe and the lines they smoothed out in the street part. Keizer has a variety of obstacles to hit including rails, hips, pyramids, ledges, some stair gaps with handrails, and other various shit but the reason to go here at all is for the refurbished big bowl with a keyhole, its super fun, fast and smooth at about 6ft with decent coping. Another reason I am not a fan of this spot is that it is usually overtaken with scooter kids just scooting around, picking their noses, and doing stupid little spins and cutting off people’s lines with no idea of what’s going on around them.

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Glenhaven Skatepark

Glenhaven Skatepark located at 2831 NE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR 97220 was designed and built by Dreamland Skateparks in 2007 and is a fun park that is fairly big at 11,000 Sq Ft. The Park has a street course with a ton of stuff to hit, a quarter pipe a sloped transition that leads down to some handrails, a stair gap, a euro gap, ledges with angle iron, a flat kinked rail, some fun boxes, a sloped brick transition all enclosed within a 4ft-ish quarter pipe transition. The park also has two bowls, a kidney shaped pool that goes about from a 4ft to about 10ft deep with pool coping and a fun 6ft bowl with standard coping that has an extension and some interesting lines to hit. I like this park a lot, the street section can get a bit busy, but the bowls have always been pretty mellow every time I hit the park so its worth checking out.

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Heath Eiland and Morgan Moss BMX Skate Park (House Park)

Heath Eiland and Morgan Moss BMX Skate Park also know by the locals as House Park is located in Auston Texas at 1213 Shoal Creek Blvd, Austin, TX 78701 . That’s right Kids I have official ventured outside of the Northwest to check out some other parks. Ok not really but we where in the area and had to check out some parks as part of our trip. The park is pretty fun and consists of a fairly big street section that I actually did not hit up but there is a nice long quarter pipe that’s about 4ft tall in the street part that’s kind of fun and a really fun big bowl section that I spent most of my time skating. After talking to some of the locals I guess the bowl was designed for the BMX’ers as there is a huge bike scene in Austin, but it skates really well. Anyways It ranges in size from about 6ft to up about 10ft at a nice half bowl with some oververt carve section and the entire bowl has a nice flow to it with the concrete and coping being in pretty good shape for its age. if you are in A...

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