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Skateparks, Finding & Building

Find a skatepark near you, skatepark resources, and instructions for buying or building ramps and rails at these sites.

How to Act at Skateparks

Skateparks might be designed as places to play, but they can be intimidating to skate in. New skaters usually don’t know what to do or how to act at the skatepark. How should you act at skateparks? What should you look out for? What’s the code of conduct for skateparks?

How I Built My Skateboard Ramp, Rail or Obstacle

Skaters build their own home made skateboard ramps, rails and obstacles all the time. This is a form for people to share how they built their own skateboard ramps, and to post plans and pictures. Read and see how other skaters built their skateboard ramps, and post your stories, ideas and advice about how you built yours!

Concrete Disciples

A huge library of skateparks all across the US with photos, reviews and descriptions. Well over 800 skateparks are listed, all submitted by and for skaters.

Cooping

"Italian company that builds, rents and manages skateboard ramps and parks."

Dreamland Skateparks

Dreamland has helped design or built over 25 skate parks, including globally-renowned parks.

Free Skateparks

A directory of skateparks all over the world. Site includes photographs, rules, directions and descriptions of most skateparks listed. Submit a skatepark in your area.

Gopher Sport

Gopher Sport sells quality built portable ramps and skateboarding equipment.

Rampage

Custom designs, manufactures and constructs galvanized steel skatepark equipment with RampX and Skatelite professional skating surfaces.

SILC Boneyard

A Finnish inline skating crew who've managed to compile a huge list of addresses for skateparks all over the world.

Skate Map

An interactive map of Italy's skate parks.

Skatepark Pages

A list of UK skateparks, with detailed descriptions and stats for each park.

Skatepark.org

A detailed plan to getting a skatepark built in your community.

Tony Hawk Foundation

The foundation supports the construction of public skateboard parks. The site also features an in-depth explanation of how to get a skatepark built.

Toxboe

Toxboe has a large listing of skateparks in North America and across the world. The site is focused on inline skating, but it's still a good place to find parks.

Transworld Skateboarding

An interactive map of skateparks across the United States and Canada.

Vert Manufacturing

Buy CAD designed plans for commercial and home use ramps.

Whitefish Skate Ramp Co.

Whitefish sells life-size, traceable template plans for wooden skateboard ramps and entire wooden skateparks.

Wormhoudt Incorporated

A company that consults, designs and helps construct professional skateparks.

skateboard.com.au

Formerly sk8parx, has an interactive map of skateparks across Australia.

Skaters for Public Skateparks Launch New Resource Center and Community Forum

Skaters for Public Skateparks (SPS) launched a new informational tool to help public officials and municipalities make key decisions about the site selecting and construction of skateparks in their regions. Skaters for Public Skateparks (SPS) is a great online resource for public, private, cities, everyone to access help in building public skateboarding parks. Skateboard parks (skateparks) have been multiplying in the US, and the Skaters for Public Skateparks organization is here to help.

A-M Skateparks

Inline skater's home page, with a large list of skatepark addresses around the world.

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