The very popular Innisfail Skatepark is the subject of the first Localz Skatepark Tour Video of 2020. Innisfail skateboarders Brannen and Christian take you on a tour of this new (Less than a year old), $1 million skatepark in central Alberta, a few minutes south of Red Deer. Watch the video then check out the virtual tour of the Innisfail skatepark, right here on Skateparktour.ca!
Skateparktour.ca is excited to announce a brand new partnership with Canada Skateboard!! We will work together to include ALL Canadian skateparks on Skateparktour.ca! Canada Skateboard and Skateparktour realize how useful a complete skatepark directory will be and are working together to make it happen!
This partnership will be good for everyone who uses Canadian skateparks, not only skateboarders. If you skate, BMX, scooter, inline skate, roller skate, or unicycle you can use Skateparktour.ca to find skateparks, and you can submit skateparks to be added. The more skateparks on the list, the more we all benefit.
Whiterock BC Skatepark
We need EVERYONE who uses skateparks to tell us about skateparks missing from Skateparktour.ca! We want EVERY skatepark, large, small, indoor or outdoor. Use our easy to complete form to submit a skatepark. You can submit as many parks as you can visit, there is no limit!
To help get the wheels rolling about this project, Canada Skateboard is offering prizes for contributions made before August 31st! Every valid skatepark submission gives you a chance to win one of three prizes. You could win a Canada Skateboard coffee book, a Canada Skateboard deck or a Canada Skateboard Hydroflask.
So, let the skatepark blizzard begin! If your skatepark is not already on skateparktour.ca, submit it today!!!
July 25, 2020, Skateparktour.ca
When we belong to a community we show it in what we do and the choices we make. Last weekend I went to Innisfail to shoot video footage for a Localz Skatepark Tour Video. Before the shoot, I was telling some young local BMXers about skateparktour.ca and the video I was there to shoot when one of the group slipped into the bowl to retrieve a broom and pop can dangerously littering the bottom of the bowl. A few minutes later after the conversation, another in their group noticed that a lot of dirt and some leaves had accumulated at the base of a bank. He picked up the broom and swept the slippery and skateboard/scooter wheel stopping debris safely out of the park.
In neither case were the stoked-to-ride young BMX’ers asked, reminded, suggested, or told to clean up the park. These 9 and 10-year-old kids just saw something that needed doing and took care of it. That’s one thing that contributing members of a community do. See something that needs doing that they can do, they do it safely, and they ask no reward for it. Every skatepark needs lots of community members like these guys!
On the weekend we shot video of Christian and Brennan with Stephen B for a Localz video tour of the new Innisfail skatepark! The park cost $1 million and has proven very popular since it opened in October 2019. Look for the Innisfail Skatepark Localz video early in August.
Here is the skatepark that the local skater referred to
I was at a small town skatepark recently, taking virtual tour photos. A local skater, probably 14 or 15 years old came by for a session just as I finished taking photos. I gave him a sticker and told him what my photos were for. I also let him know about Skateparktour.ca because not everyone knows about it yet!
He commented that his town needs a new skatepark because the current one has no bowl. He’s right, the current park in his town is very limited. It has no elevated components to gain speed. It also lacks a variety of features such as stairs, up/down rails, hubbas, gaps banks, or transition features.
I responded that “it was time to start working on getting a new park”, and wished him a good session while I loaded gear in the car. It hit me as I drove away that what I said was not very helpful or motivational. I wished that I had made these 4 points with him:
Some skatepark efforts took years of advocacy, fundraising, and planning to get amazing skateparks built. Some examples include:
The Rossland skatepark.
The Rossland Skatepark, Rossland BC. The Rossland Skatepark Association was formed in 1996 to advocate for the skatepark which was recently opened (2017 or2018?). The RSA put in about 24 years of dogged persistence and advocacy to get a skatepark for Rossland, a town of about 4000.
Here are three examples of skateparks built with youth getting the wheels rolling, there are many more
Delburne Skatepark
Legacy Skatepark, Langdon AB Langdon youth got huge support from their local FCSS. They helped the young people organize and approach the Council and the provincial government for funding.
Let’s see a new skatepark, or an addition, in this town and yours, soon!
