SKATEPARK SURVEY – Tell us your thoughts about other skateparks.
July 25, 2010 7 Comments
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Do you skate, bmx, or hangout at skateparks? If so…great! In order to build the skatepark that meets the needs of Lake County, we are asking you for your feedback. By knowing what has worked and what hasn’t in other communities, we can plan for a park that all will enjoy. Therefore, these surveys are crucial during the planning process, and through your thoughtful analysis we can design a park that is fun, has great terrain features, and flows well. Thank you for your time, and we look forward to your comments!
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Mentioning winter access for skiers and boarders on the skatepark home page is awesome. This is the “outside the box” thinking that will make this park stand out and bring in users from out of town. Excellent work.
An Oregon, gravity style skatepark in action, Check it out.
Thanks for all your great comments, and the video above!
Hi everyone. I was in Salida over the weekend, and visited their small skatepark next to the steam plant–right next to downtown. The space is tiny, and almost all of it is dedicated to a bowl with two sections. One of the sections is incredibly steep and deep (I’m not a skater, so pardon my lame descriptions). My overall impression is that Salida created something that would be great for stud skaters, but terrible for beginners. My son has never skated before, and a facility like that would be completely intimidating and uninviting for him. If it turns out for cost reasons that we can’t have a full-blown skate park that serves the needs of beginners through experts, then I think we need to err on the side of providing a less hard-core skate park–one that encourages beginners and recreational skaters. Thanks everyone. -Peter Frykholm, Rec Department
Yes, I agree entirley. A smaller, mellower and easily skateble area can still fun for advanced skaters if the transitions are right. While an advanced area is unskateable to beginners. See Silverthorns park for a great example of a mellow park that advanced sk8ers can shred.
I think this is a great idea for leadville. We need something for kids and people to do.It would be a good place to go for kids after school.Its a great sport, me and my daughters watch skate shows all the time and it would be awesome to see some skaters shred leadville.cause leadville is a recreation town of all kinds we need some more options.Thanks
This is great! As a long time local, I’ve put alot of thought about the benefits of a quality skatepark here. I can’t count how many times a carload of friends and I have driven to a nearby town to spend a few hours a another communities skatepark. And spend a few dollars on gas and lunch. A quality skatepark will bring modest amounts of people here on daytrips. The better the park, the more people it will attract. Not necessarily bigger, Just well thought out. I think we need an outline of the site before design, Because a park line needs to flow within its confines.
Another Idea is to design certain aspects of the park to accomodate snowboard and ski rail or jib features. Plenty of mountain town skateparks fill up with snow in the winter. As they do this creates an urban/off resort type of skiing and riding experience. Any skatepark with a little snow can function as winter recreation for “terrain park” demographic. I’m just thinkin that you can build 1 or 2 skateable features with winter compatability. Get more bang for your buck and be pioneers of sorts.
The new recreation spot is ideal because of noise issue’s. And maybe it can utilize the lighting?
Thanks for doing this and thanks for listening.