Our friends at Edmonton’s Castle Downs Coffee Crew took a road trip north and shared pics from the Clairmont Skatepark and the NEW Muskoseppi Skatepark in Grande Prairie. This brings Skateparktour.ca to 175 skateparks in 5 provinces!
Muskoseepi skatepark Grande Prairie
The bowl at the Clairmont AB Skatepark!
Thanks to an anonymous well travelled skater and Skateparktour.ca fan, two Peace Country skateparks have been added to the site. Both the Swan Hills Skatepark and Q Skate Plaza in High Prairie are quality, modern, concrete skateparks that any community anywhere would like to have. Take a look on Skatearktour.ca then plan a session next time you visit the area.
A small town with a fun, interesting, concrete skatepark worth stopping at if you’re in the area!
About an hour and ahalf (148 km) north and west of Swan Hills is The Q Skate Plaza in High Prairie. “The Q” is a large (for a small town) 9000 Sq Ft park with a variety of street and transition features.
The new homepage on a mobile phone, showing the interactive map!
After a long planning process and hours of transferring skatepark information from the old site, the new Skateparktour.ca is live for all to see an use! There is still almost 100 skateparks yet to be transferred, but they will come in the next few weeks. It is time for a new look and improved functionality!
The first two generations of skateparktour.ca was developed using WYSIWYG editors, Adobe Go LIve then Dreamweaver. About 6 years ago the site move to the Joomla CMS, which brought a new level of technical sophistication to skateparktour, but with the growth in the use of mobile devices, it was time for the Joomla site to be replaced.
This brings us to the end of March 2018 and the unveiling of the new WordPress version of skateparktour.ca! The site uses Divi, a responsive theme that adjusts the way skateparktour is displayed depending on the device bring used to view it. The most important design features include:
Screen shot of the old site on a mobile phone.
All of these features mean skateparktour.ca will be a more effective tool to find skateparks near where you live and where you are traveling. More features are planned, and we’re open to your suggestions and feedback, so don’t hesitate to contact skateparktour.ca!
Now if the snow would just go away, we can all get into our skateparks and have a great time in 2018!
It’s back to the future for Skateparktour.ca as virtual tours return to skateparktour.ca after an absence of a few years!
When Skateparktour.ca first went live back in 2006 visitors were able to explore the skateparks using virtual tours created using Apple’s ground breaking QuicktimeVR. The interactive nature of QuicktimeVR let people explore skateparks in an immersive tour, almost as if they were there in person standing on the spot. As technology advanced, QuicktimeVR was left behind and eventually stopped working and Skateparktour.ca had to switch to slide shows to showcase Canada’s skateparks. Thanks to the development of affordable spherical cameras and HTML5, virtual tours are back on Skateparktour.ca, and they are bigger, better, and more immersive than ever before!
The new virtual tours come with a set of controls you can use to explore the skatepark. On phones and devices, gestures also work, and you can look around the skatepark by moving your phone too! Clicking/tapping on icons in the tour will take you to that location in the skatepark.
Converting all of the parks to virtual tours will take time because the Skateparktour team is very small and has a limited travel budget. So far 26 (almost 10%) of skateparks have had virtual tours created so far. Here is the list:
