Marsh Creek doesn’t get crowded as often. People skate the adjacent hockey rink more than the park, which is hilarious.
Yea...
@Lenny the Fatface that hockey rink is smooth. The skate scene pushed to get a public skatepark in Raleigh built for a long time, starting in the late 90s (likely earlier as well). It took over a decade to break ground and by that time the skaters still paying attention / pushing for it had changed. There were actually multiple designs proposed and there was a vote. The design I (and many other mainly street skaters) voted for was more of a street plaza, which was the original goal. If my memory is correct, it even had trees in the design.
Unfortunately, there was more of a push for a gigantic bowl from those in attendance, so that happened and took up the majority of the park budget / consisted of a different design. That bowl was a nightmare to pour, especially in the middle of a thunderstorm with cement coming from the truck that was clogging the pipes.
I'm glad that whole area has been taken over by skaters. It's also sick to see Apex park as that is similar to what the street skaters wanted in Raleigh.
@yourbreakfsat , you can push from Endless Grind all the way to NC State, especially if you are on soft wheels. If you are lucky, it's sometimes possible to hop a freight train back to the shop. Bombing from the Brooks Parking lot > Hillsborough Street > into the Brickyard (entrance at Gardner Street) is super fast and fun. Spots around the Graffiti tunnel before and after you pass through it.
Another option with fun hills is skating from Endless into Downtown.
This was a route I would often taken: Walk up Peace Street (go right out of Endless) and then bomb left down Glenwood Avenue. Armadillo Grill at the bottom has great food, good salsa bar. Then you gotta walk up Glenwood, but its not steep.
Push across the Boylan Bridge and then take a left on Cabarrus and bomb that hill. That will send you straight towards the train station (cutty spots around there) and if you keep going to some banks / parking garages / a ledge / Fayetteville Street Mall (smooth pavement, ledges, planters to ollie onto / off of, also slightly downhill)
Anyways, have fun. If you go to Endless Grind, tell em tkp says hello (then again I have no idea who works there now). Hope that angle iron is still holding strong on the ledge out front.