Archive for the ‘Skateparks’ Category
Source video at Chinook Winds
August 31st, 2010 | Author: Skateparktour.ca
Here’s a good look at the new Chinook Winds skatepark in Airdrie in this Source team video.
From Brock Mitchell on Vimeo.
Replacement Westside Skatepark Nears Completion
August 4th, 2010 | Author: Skateparktour.ca
Westside skatepark under construction
The grand opening for the new Westside Skatepark in Calgary is scheduled for 1PM on August 21st and it looks like the park will be ready in time. The new skatepark, a modular park with a concrete riding surface, replaces the small concrete park also on the Westside Rec Centre property that was demolished to make room for the new West LRT.
It will be interesting to see what modular obstacles that Newline Skateparks came up with for Westside. It was hoped that the new park would be a community sized concrete skatepark but it seems that the Westside Board was so concerned about potential liability issues that they wanted a skatepark that could be put away in the off season (that’s what the building is for, to store the skatepark obstacles in over the winter). No doubt Signal Hill has a lot of lawyers living in the neighbourhood, and a lot of people with the bucks to hire one, but stats show skateboarding to be less dangerous than hockey and basketball, two sports that are played in the Westside Rec Centre probably every day. While it’s great that Westside still has a skatpark, Here’s hoping that level heads prevail and that all future Calgary skateparks are state of the art concrete parks like the ones built in Edmonton, Airdrie, and Vancouver.
Kensington Skatepark Grand Opening
July 12th, 2010 | Author: Skateparktour.ca
Come, have refreshments, eat cake, skate, and watch demos at Vancouver’s newest skatepark!
Kensington Grand Opening Poster
Vancouver’s 7th Skatepark Almost Done!
July 4th, 2010 | Author: Skateparktour.ca
Sixth new Skatepark in Recent Years Just About Done!
Kensington Skatepark, Vancouver (Courtesy "Vancouver is Awesome" Click to learn more
Vancouver continues to set the bar high in western Canada for providing skateparks to help keep the city’s citizens active and healthy through skateboarding.
Located in Kensington Park at 5175 Dumfries Street (@ E 37th Avenue), the new Kensington Skatepark is a community skatepark, more similar in size to Quilchena and Strathcona than Hastings, which was designed to be a destination park drawing people from all over the city. Recent Vancouver skateparks have focused more on street skating so Kensington helps provide a bit more balance to the range of choices skaters have by including a bowl along with some ledges and street obstacles.
Kensington may well be open by now as it was rumoured to be opening by July 4th but if it’s not, the wait won’t be long now as you can see from the photo at left.