Longview Skatepark, located at 28th/Washington Way in Longview WA could definitely be on an episode of David Gravette’s “worst Skateparks”. The park built by Grindline ( which is surprising as their parks normally rock ) is built on what I think is an old tennis court and the concrete is pretty rough and consists of a lot of flat box ledges, a curved ledge, a quarter pipe that has two sloped ledges with angle iron with a little step-down gap in between, a concrete spined quarter, a pyramid hip, some flat bars, curbs and some various other hips, loges, gaps and obstacles floating around the area. It’s actually probably not that bad for people that like to skate street, but I am more of a transition skater “bowls and half pipes” so I was not into it at all but hit it up if you are in the area and let me know what you think.
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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