Louisville Skatepark, Louisville Kentucky
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Park Address:
Witherspoon & Clay Streets
Louisville Kentucky
Skate Park Overview
- Crashup Derby Factor: 10
- Do you have to wear pads?: helmet only
- Does it cost money to skate?: no
- Related Link: www.LouisvilleExtremePark.org
- Park Contact:parks@loukymetro.org
Park Description
The Extreme Sports Park is one of the nation’s best skate parks, with awesome features including a 24 foot full-pipe! The park offers a great balance of street-style, transition-style and vert.
The first phase of the project includes 40,000 square feet of outdoor concrete skating surface and a wooden vert ramp. A second phase will include a 20,000 square foot building with indoor skate areas, concessions, and restrooms. In addition to drawing extreme sports enthusiasts from across the country, the park will be an attractive venue for competitions and clinics.
Louisville Extreme Park provides skateboarding, rollerblading and biking opportunities to people of all ages and skill levels. Centrally located downtown near Waterfront Park and Slugger Field, the “X-park” will be accessible from all parts of the community by bus and car, or by self-powered means via the RiverWalk and the Beargrass Creek Bicycle Trail! The park’s design was based on the input of a local task force and the results of a public meeting attended by more than 100 likely Extreme Park users. Using clay, participants created models of design features they wanted to see in the park.
Also, the restrooms are complete!
JASON A.C. CISSELL
Public Information Officer, Metro Parks
Louisville, Kentucky
502/456.8100
www.metro-parks.org
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anthemgirl - Let’s Show That Louisville School’s Should Be Allowed to Have Skateboard Clubs
And that Kentucky Has a Strong Skating Scene
My students at Eastern High School designed a Van’s shoe showing that the origins of skateboarding which is surfing. It shows bowls evolving into street skating. We were the 1st school in Kentucky to have a skate team. This year we were told we could not longer have a team. We would like to use this contest to show that skateboarding is a sport and should be allowed in schools.
Go to http://vans.com/customculture/vote.htlm and vote for their shoe. Voting will be from April 16, 2010 to April 18, 2010. Let’s show kids that their voice does matter. We are currently one of the top five in the southeast region out of 500 schools that entered.
Thanks,
Trish Hamilton-Cooper
(art and photography teacher at Eastern High School)
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damonkeymatt - this park is so kickass. the wooden halfpipe would have to be the best. there is a battle going on, skateboards(which is me.) vs. bikes.
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bmx4life132 - This park is the park that i bike in all the time its so awesome and the dude in adrenaline zone named chris i believe keep rockin.my dad signed the wall in there and thats were i bought my real bmx bike.this was the home away from home to me.and yo hit me up if you wanna talk...
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bmx4life132 - This park is the park that i bike in all the time its so awesome and the dude in adrenaline zone named chris i believe keep rockin.my dad signed the wall in there and thats were i bought my really bmx bike.this was the home away from home to me.and yo hit me up if you wanna talk...
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midnight office - A huge park, not as street friendly, more bowl/ramp stuff. A full pipe seems more of a novelty that something that is actually fun to skate. However, BIG UPS to L-town for lighting it and letting it stay open 24/7. If you want to skate at 4 am you can, and you won't be alone. It does get crowded and with the lack of clear, natural lines, crashes are inevitable.
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oldfatskater - Where is the closest cheap motel?
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jacker_03 - this skate park is he best!!!!!!! u relly need to go their ir u ride sk8boards or bikes.
i went here and i live in califorina
watch for the crowed thow
jacker_03
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JDOGG91 - YO this place is kick ass!!!!!!!!!!!!
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freebmxer - its sweet if ur ever in the area definitly chek it out. watch out for the crowd though.
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ipathbomb92 - makes me feel really good that there has been 1 person broken leg, 1 person pralized, and 1 person dead at this park!!!!! If you don't skate vert dont go because the aggressive inlines, bikes, and skateboards do not mix very well... I have driven by there 5 times and 2 of them I have seen hunge fights....
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