Portland Oregon Skate parks

Stronger skatepark ( 6102 SE King Rd, Milwaukie, OR 97222 ) located in Milwaukie OR is just outside downtown Portland OR. The all wood park is located in a mini mall and is pay to play per two-hour session. You need to go to their website and pick a specific time to skate so just don’t show up and expect to skate. Currently with Covid-19 they are limiting people in the park at 10 per session and you need to wear a mask. It’s worth a note that this park is geared to kids, think Scooters kids, and kids just learning. They also offer classes and sessions catering to learning the basics for kids, all girls skate, queer skate night, quads and inline skate classes, stuff like that. The park itself is not real big but I actually like this park specifically for the mini ramp they have. The mini ramp is about 5ft at the extensions 4ft all around and is about 20ft or 25ft wide give or take. It's in good shape and has nice copping that grinds well. The mini ramp is spined to a quarter pipe t...

So by now you should be aware that I am an old dude who is relearning to skate again after a 17 year hiatus, but what you may not know is that I’m about to turn 44…. Argh… Yeah…. Fuck that sucks... but I digress... So, with my impending birthday coming up that is putting me closer to my death than to my youth my lovely girlfriend decided to buy me a Powell Peralta Flight deck for my Bday as I have been talking about this deck ever since I discovered that they existed and have been dreaming about building the lightest set-up ever. And I think I got dam close.  The deck is a “ BISS Leaf Grasshopper, with a 249 shape, 8.5 . Per Powell it is Thinner than a 7-ply “it’s as thin as your phone”. It is strong, “more than twice as strong in tail break tests”.  Its longer lasting, “The epoxy infused, fiber reinforced structure is extremely resistant to breaking”. And it has “everlasting pop and higher ollies because of the greater rebound and snap” of the fiberglass structure. Yeh, yeh, ...

Wilsonville Skatepark / Chuck Green Skate Plaza / Trocadero Park ( located basically on the corner of SW Paris Ave and SW Palermo ST ) in Wilsonville OR is about 35 mins south of Portland OR. Built by Dreamland Skateparks this park is 6,000 sq ft. and was pretty fun although a bit weird. Firstly, the park is located in this strange newly built suburban sprawling development, to get there you have to go through like four or five roundabouts, actually if you look at the pics on Dreamlands page it looks like they built the park before the even finished the housing development. While I hate this sort of suburban development, I have to give props to Pacific Community Design Group for having the foresight to build a skatepark in the middle of this development. And on that note, I was there early in the morning, but be forewarned this park most definitely is overtaken by scooter kids usually; And on that Note, seriously what is the deal with these freaking scooter kids?? Buy your kids a fuck...

Sherwood skatepark ( 23000 SW Pacific Hwy, Sherwood, OR 97140 ) In Sherwood OR is about 45 mins South West of Portland OR. This Park built by Dreamland Skateparks is rather big at 12,500 sq ft and has a variety of thigs to hit within it so try to stay with me on my rambling description. Firstly, the concrete is in great shape, exceptionally smooth extremely fast and a little slick. It wasn’t too bad but I’m riding relatively soft wheels; Powell Peralta SS G-Slides 85a’s so normally I’m sticking to the walls on the transitions not sliding out but it was rather cold the day I went so that might have had something to do with it. Anyway, with that said let’s get into the park shall we; The entire park has a slight slope down to the back of the park where the big bowl is. At the top entrance of the park it starts with a sort of kidney shape transitions that average about 5ft, this leads to an area of flat that has a triangle grind to the right and to the left you find a wall transition wit...