Skateboard Parks
Whether using bicycles, scooters or skateboards, we encourage you to visit our professionally designed, challenging facilities. Remember to always wear personal protective equipment (i.e. helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, etc.). Stay safe and have fun.
Learn more about our parks below.
Mundy Pond Park, Blackler Ave
Northwest Rotary Skateboard Park
The Northwest Rotary Skateboard Park, located in Mundy Pond Park (off Blackler Ave), is a radical 16,600 square foot concrete park that offers bowl and street skating/riding obstacles for the beginner right up to the more advanced user. This skate park features:
- three-foot bowl transferring to multi height six to eight-foot bowl with extensions
- escalators and hips
- small, medium and large banks with rails, hubbas and flat ledges
- stairs, tons of step-ups, transfers, gaps, rails, ledges, multi-fun box and more.
85 Messenger Drive
Kenmount Terrace Skateboard Park
This urban skateboard park is located at the Kenmount Terrace Community Centre. It features:
- 4-foot-high turn around transition
- high to low wedge ramp with rooftop ledge
- 1.5-foot-high bank ramp with up/down rail and hubba ledge
- transition hip
- ‘cheat' ramps
- frontside/backside out ledges
- flat rail
- very long slightly curved flat ledge/manual pad
- slappy bank
- bank ramp hip with steel fence top
- bank to pole jam
- three stairs set with pier seven inspired manual pad
- high to low slappy bank with inset ledge
- sculptural cantilevered turn around steep bank
Quidi Vidi Park
Pump Track
A pump track is a continuous loop of berms and “rollers” (paved mounds) where riders use an up and down pumping motion to propel themselves forward instead of pedalling or pushing. It is most suitable for bicycles and skateboards. It can also be used by other non-motorized equipment like scooters and wheelchairs.
The paved track is a fun way to develop biking and riding skills for all ages and abilities. Riders must always wear a helmet and follow the primary direction of travel around the track.
Portable Skateboard Parks
We have five outdoor modular (portable) skateboard parks for users to enjoy, located at:
- Bowring Park (near the swimming pool)
- Chafe's Lane Park, Chafe's Lane
- Goulds (behind the Fire Department on the Main Road, next to the basketball court)
- Shea Heights Community Centre, 130 Linegar Avenue
- Southlands Community Centre, 40 Teakwood Drive
- Quidi Vidi Lake (off The Boulevard)
Safety Tips
- Get a certified helmet that fits snugly and is done up tightly under the chin.
- Wear elbow and knee pads to prevent scrapes and cuts.
- Wear wrist guards to prevent wrist fractures.
- Wear slip resistant shoes with a closed toe.
- Make sure the skateboard is in good working order (no loose, broken or cracked parts, non-slip surface on board, no sharp edges).
- Don't skateboard faster than your experience allows or faster than the conditions permit. Complicated tricks require practice in a specially designed area.
- Only skateboard when in good physical condition. Stretch and complete conditioning exercises before and after skateboarding.
- While skateboarding, if you lose your balance, crouch down on the skateboard to reduce the height of the fall, and try to land on the fleshy parts of the body.
- Try to relax your body during a fall and try to roll instead of absorbing the force with your arms.
- Do not get towed by bicycles or motor vehicles.
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