Now that it’s gone (fuck you very much PBOT) I can post about the St Johns Secret Spot. It was a DIY that was about half finished assuming the unknown builders were going to do a full bowl. It was a pretty intense bowl with a fair amount of vert with what I think was about a 10ft drop in off of pool coping with a bit of a little round indent on one side. It had really smooth concrete for a DIY spot, it’s a shame that it never got finished before it got taken out. Thanks to whoever built it and sorry that your hard work got trashed by the city, it was a cool spot that was not for the faint of heart.
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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