Skateparktour.ca
Canadian Skatepark Directory
Skateparktour.ca
Canadian Skatepark Directory
1. Find Skateparks Near Me
- Tap the target to find a skatepark near your current location,
- Enter a specific location to see skateparks within the radius you set of that location.
2. Search Skateparktour.ca
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Canadian Skateparks!
Welcome!
Skateparktour.ca is a Canadian Skatepark directory focused on BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. If you’re looking for a skatepark in Eastern Canada, check out Spott Dreams of Skateparks
3. Canadian Skatepark Map
Zoom in on the part of Canada that you want to explore the skateparks, or narrow the list using your favourite criteria in the skatepark list (scroll down!).
4. Canadian Skatepark List
Filters
Narrow the skatepark list by the criteria important to you
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Skatepark Features
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Skatepark List
3 Musketears Skatepark * Acton ON
306 SK8 Shop and Skatepark * Regina SK
Acton Vale Skatepark, Acton Vale QC
Aldergrove Skatepark * Aldergrove BC
Algoport Skate & BMX Park * Port Colborne ON
Ardrossan Skatepark – Ardrossan AB
Armstrong Skatepark – Armstrong BC
Ashbridges / Beach Skateboard Park * Toronto ON
Ashley Park Skate Spot * Saskatoon SK
B-Line Indoor Bike Park, Calgary Alberta (CLOSING April 30, 2024)
From The Skateparktour YouTube Channel!
Here is a selection from the Skateparktour.ca YouTube channel. Visit the channel to check out
all of the skatepark related videos that Skateeparktour.ca has made!
Skatepark Etiquette Reminders!
This video from the 100% SKate Club is a great reminder of the skatepark manners that help make skateparks great places to have fun riding.
Skateparktour.ca Search Tips:
Here are some tips on how to use Skateparktour.ca to find skateparks where you live and travel!
Skateparktour.ca News
The New Skateparktour.ca Is Live!
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:
- The use of facets to narrow the search for skateparks based on your criteria
- the ability to search using an interactive map or a list
- Responsive display of the virtual tours and photo tours. No more extending beyond the device!
- Readable text
- More easily read and utilized menus for site navigation
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!
360º Tour Transition Starts
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!
Here’s a sample: Chuck Bailey Skatepark in Surrey BC
Using the VR Tour
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.
Conversion will take time!
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:
BC 360º Skatepark Tours as of September 22, 2017
- Chuck Bailey Youth Park, Surrey BC
- Cloverdale Youthpark Surrey BC
- Guildford Youth Park – Surrey BC
- Ladner Skatepark, Delta BC
- Mouat Skatepark – Abbotsford BC
- Thomas Haney Youthpark, Maple Ridge BC
- Penzer Pump Track
- Queensborough All Wheel Park, New Westminster BC
- Sidney Skatepark, Sidney BC
- Vic West Skatepark – Victoria BC
Alberta 360º Skatepark Tours as of September 22, 2017
- Blackfalds Optimists All Wheel Park, Blackfalds AB
- Carstairs Regional Skatepark, Carstairs AB
- CKE Skatespot, Calgary AB
- Crossfield Skatepark, Crossfield AB
- Lacombe Skatepark, Lacombe AB
- Legacy Skatepark , Langdon AB
- McKernan Skate spot, Edmonton AB
- Midnapore Skatepark, Calgary AB
- New Brighton Skatepark – Calgary AB
- Town of Olds Skatepark – Olds AB
- Hamilton\’s Skatepark, Ponoka AB
- Red Deer Rotary Skatepark, Red Deer AB
- Rimbey Skatepark, Rimbey AB
- Southwood Skatepark, Calgary AB
- Sylvan Lake Optimist Action Sports Zone, Sylvan Lake AB
- Wetaskiwin Skatepark, Wetaskiwin AB
Schools and Skateparks, Delburne Shows It Can Work!
Schools and Skateparks Don’t Usually Mix
Schools and skateparks don’t usually mix. Schools offer the usual sports like volleyball, basketball, and badminton while their skaters, BMX’ers, and scooter riders leave the school to do what they enjoy. This past June, Delburne Centralized School showed for the second straight year, that schools CAN use skateparks for helping educate their students. The success of their Ghost Ryders Invitational Skatepark Competition is a challenge to schools to include their action sports enthusiasts in school activities as well!
Take a look at the Delburne Skatepark where the Ghost Ryder Invitational was held. An impressive skatepark for a small town, that shows what can be done when a community gets behind their youth!
Delburne Skatepark, Home of the Ghost Ryder Invitational Skatepark Competition