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.
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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