skatepark essentials

[zerorider]

I wasn't too sure if I should put this here, or in the lounge.

Anyway..

At the apartment complex I live in we don't have anywhere to skate. We can't skate on the streets that go through our complex because people don't pay attention to the 5mph speed limit, and they drive carelessly. A little girl was killed by a careless driver when she was out playing jump rope. The nearest skate park is a 15min drive away, and it's a piece of junk skate park. The ramps are maybe 3' high. It just stinks. To get there I would have to cross over 4 major roads and risk getting killed. It would take close to an hour to even walk there. The only decent park in this general area is Scrap, and that's over in Hoffman Estates. I don't have a car - so I can't drive there.

I've had this idea for a few months now of drawing up plans of ramps and taking them into our complex office and talking to someone about building us a park so we'd actually have somewhere safe to skate. My question is this: what are the most essential ramps that every park should have? Is there anything else that parks should have like soda machines or a water fountain or anything like that?

Thanks. :-1:

[crazy_dave]

A dream park?

How bout something like this:

http://www.ramprage.com/forums/media/showphoto.php?photo=805&cat=500&page=1

Everything i always liked skatin in one!

[Freaky Styley]

Hit this up. http://www.tonyhawkfoundation.org/ This should give you some good ideas and maybe send your story into them and see if they can help ya. I would definetly bring up the safety issues with the town council in an open forum. If you don't know when their next meeting is, call the town hall or local paper.

Good luck...keep us posted

[dsc6072]

Flyboxes with 1.5 foot ledges going across and down the sides, flatbars to downward sloped rails approximately the same height, 2' high downward sloped rail, step-up with rail and ledges, 2' high and 3' high boxes atop the flybox, small flatbar, taller flatbar, banks, smaller banks, 6' quarterpipes, 4' mini ramp with a vert extension, 6' mini ramp, 1' high box, 1.5' high box, an actual 7 stair handrail, and I think that's about it.

[sk8er6792]

a kid in my town went to city council to ask for a public skatepark. we got one, but the kid that asked wasn't thinkin. he should of been in the design process but nope. we got the sucky park, a little bigger than my garage. so if you ask your city, get in the design aspect in it, and keep buggin them too.

[grimreaper65]

Do it like the park near my house, it's pretty small but they managed to get a decent park out of it

http://www.ramprage.com/forums/media/showphoto.php?photo=823&cat=500&page=1

[cannibus069]

ok i have been to a bunch of parks and have relized that kickers and funboxes are essentilly but what u dont see at a lot of them is quarter pipes im not vert but i have tried and it is fun try drawing up a quarter pipe going over a gap to another quarter that would look cool and make the vert skaters real happy plus it is a lot of fun

[Shadow sk8er]

Do it like the park near my house, it's pretty small but they managed to get a decent park out of it

http://www.ramprage.com/forums/media/showphoto.php?photo=823&cat=500&page=1
hey grim u from marathon , ontario

[eNola ediSni]

You need a pool. A vert ramp. A mini ramp. A funbox with a ledge. Some rails. Some stairs. You need a spine ramp. You need bank ramps, and quarter pipes. You need a pinic table, a manual pad, You need a kicker. You need a pyramid. You need a snake run. You need a fire hydrant. You need ledges. You need gaps. You need a kniked rail. You need parking curbs. You need benchs. You need a skateboard.

[STR8 RIPPIN']

Fuboxes, ledges. This migh also help you.

http://www.skatersforpublicskateparks.org/

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