Skateparktour.ca Skatepark News

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Here’s a good look at the new Chinook Winds skatepark in Airdrie in this  Source team video.

From Brock Mitchell on Vimeo.

Humble Beginnings

Millennium Park

Four years ago, August 20, 2006 Skateparktour.ca went live for the first time with about 15 or 20 skatepark virtual tours on the site and a  few more  waiting to be done.The skate season  was over by the time skateparktour.ca launched so not a lot of people found the site until the summer of 2007 when traffic at the site took off with August page views doubling the previous month so from that point on it was clear skateparktour.ca was a hit and the site was here to stay.  Today, skatepakrtour.ca includes 118 skateparks all over BC and Alberta and visitor traffic has continues to grow at a fantastic pace, demonstrating that skateparktour.ca offers a useful  service to the skate and action sports community in western Canada.

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Plans For The Future

• Skateparktour.ca plans to keep growing and to look for ways  to become and even more valuable resource.  Some plans include:
• Growing the list of skateparks included in the skateparktour.ca directory
  • Asking site visitors to contribute photos of their local skatepark so that Skateparktour.ca can include skateparks from all over Canada, including communities too distant or expensive for us to travel to take pictures of.
  • Taking photos of as many skateparks as time and money allows
• Looking for ways to  add more interactivity to the site:
  • A rating system where visitors could rate skateparks and generate a ranking list of the best in a region
  • ideas?
• Improving the skatepark tours:
  • Gradually replacing the Quicktime virtual tours with photo tours (flash virtual tours are great but to time consuming to build in the numbers now on this site
  • getting  the Google maps to centre and zoom properly a major frustration!
  • Adding more detailed information about each skatepark

It’s been a fun four years and the comments and suggestions sent in by visitors have been great!   In the mean time, here are some new skatepark tours added  recently to celebrate skateparktour’s 4th birthday:

• Caroline AB
• Cranbrook BC
• Fort Macleod AB
• Grand Forks BC
• Keremeos BC
• Kimberley BC
• Montrose BC