Another few problems with Bay Creek:

1.) Why did they use so much concrete/space on the bank that goes... directly into the wall at the bottom?
2.)Who could possibly skate the rail in the background?
3.)Who wants to skate either one of the jersey barriers, that are somehow even harder to skate than those you find on the streets?

Anybody in Denmark skated this place?  Basketball court/playground/skatepark
http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2011/05/charlotte-ammundsens-plads-by-11-landskab/

Wow. Visually that looks amazing. Not sure how functional the design is, but it's definitely unique.

I definitely feel you on this. Around my hometown it is the same story, at every park you go to. My old local was the first park in the country to get a fullpipe, still to this day there's only one dude who can skate it. He doesn't even live there now. My new local is exactly the same, huge motherfuckin' bowl with a tiny over crowded street section.

The thing that gets me are the huge flow areas that take up 3/4 of the park. They look great on paper (and city council desks), but you end up with 2-3 skaters using 800ft of concrete at one time. (e.g.,Orlando Skatepark) When things get crazy on the weekends, they should just have an ambulance waiting in the parking lot, or at least someone in charge of finding peoples' teeth.

that's such a lame argument... for one we pay taxes and it's perfectly reasonable as a life long skater to expect that tax money which is spent on skateparks gets put towards places that are well designed and fun to skate daily. we all don't mind skating a lame park from time to time when out of town but you want the park near your house to be a good park with lots of mellow fun options. every park should have good flat bars, manual pads, ledges and smaller transitions 3-6'. every park should have the basics covered before they start trying to break the world recode for deepest bowl with biggest capsul.

it's way more done now than it shows in the pics. we've been skating it everyday for awhile. it's still not cool before 6PM as there are workers and they will call the cops. i'll see if i can snap some photos next time i'm there. they've got the ledges done and the landscaping in there for the most part.

there really is no such thing as a street area in that park. it's more of a smaller flow area with a straight away line through a couple of pyramids (or the hump or the street-spine-to-nowhere) to the big wall and back again. no options. it's pretty weak.

that said, the small bowl section is so tight and fast, then the medium bowl which is actually easier to skate due to the bigger tranny, then the death bowl. even chalba agreed it's fucking gnar. so i'm stoked with the park, and if i really need to skate some streety stuff, i can just use the park as a warmup spot then cruise down the street to something real. win-win.

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I always have fun at green lake and dahl. I could see how they could get old though.
This is my new local park. Pretty good. Pretty limiting though.

Yeah I did, then imported the model into Kerkythea to make a more quality render of it.

Yeah that park is really fun. And very conveniently located for me.

Been meaning to check out that newer one in Tribeca on the water but I'm lazy and just to go Astoria if I'm going to a park.

Yep. North East Tacoma. Pretty good. gets crowded in the afternoons but in the mornings and late evenings it is pretty empty. Its fun.

this a hundred times, i was at a skatepark a few years back and it had a 10ft long ledge but in the center was a circular curve and then it kept going straight, it was impossible to grind the middle so you just had too grind the ends. at this park there also were two ledges that would have been nice to skate but they were nearly waist high so people just sat on them.

this is sort of how i feel about this new skatepark here.....there a decent sized street section but a bowl that is insanely huge and the only peopel who ever touch it are old guys still wearing there 80s gear and little kids that get stuck and need help out of the pool