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Florida Road Trip
« on: August 19, 2011, 02:45:36 PM »
Hey Guys,
 Any help I can get would be awesome. Myself and 3 other friends are taking a road trip to Florida from NC in October and plan on camping out and skating the free/helmet-less concrete parks/plazas. The major plan right now is to drive straight to St Augustine the first morning and then try to keep the driving minimal the next 7 days by going to different cities down and then back up. Our major destinations include: St Augustine, Daytona, Miami, Tampa, Gainesville and Atlanta on the way back to NC. We have 8 nights, 9 days.

With those cities listed, does anyone have any info on somewhere good in between Gainesville and Atlanta?

Also, we plan on staying in a couple cities for 2 nights if possible. Do you guys have any suggestions on which 2 cities would be best for the 2 nights? somewhere in the middle seems ideal but I have no info from the web about skate parks/plazas in Miami. Is Miami (or the surrounding area) good for skating? Any parks worth mentioning?

Heres a little Google map I made of the main parks so far, so please feel free to throw any advice my way! 2011 Road Trip - Google Maps

Any help would be major since we've never done this part of the country and don't want to be driving around or sitting around too much. THANKS!

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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2011, 10:36:35 AM »
Dis ya boi nick daggal. And i'm going on this trip too. Let us stay with you? Skate with us? Have fun be friends? Get faded. Or just casual. Everybody skate and have fun come on!
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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2011, 07:56:43 AM »
Aight fuck u den.
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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2011, 08:05:21 AM »
Jacksonville is 30 minutes North of Saint Augustine. We've got Kona skatepark and a few other parks. It's pretty epic. Good drinking/party scene on Friday Saturday nights. Wish I could offer you guys a place to stay but I'm just about to move into a new place with 2 roommates I hardly know.

You can reach me here if you'd wanna come through.

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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2011, 05:23:23 PM »
thanks dude! no worries on the place to stay, we are pretty hyped on the KOA campgrounds and getting shitty drunk next to a fire for a week straight.

any info on miami?

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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2011, 11:21:29 PM »
That sounds like fun!

Never been to Miami. I think it takes 5 hours to get there from St. Augustine. 6 hours from Jax.

Unless you have some concrete plans, I wouldn't waste your time.

Jacksonville, Gainesville, and especially Tampa are MORE than enough stops for a great trip to Florida   
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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2011, 05:32:10 AM »
Any new sick parks in florida georgia south carolina?
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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2011, 04:47:54 PM »
That sounds like fun!

Never been to Miami. I think it takes 5 hours to get there from St. Augustine. 6 hours from Jax.

Unless you have some concrete plans, I wouldn't waste your time.

Jacksonville, Gainesville, and especially Tampa are MORE than enough stops for a great trip to Florida   

yea im not too sure about miami either, aside from the partying and cool scenery, it just seems like a dirty ass place to me for some reason. we would have trouble with transportation if we're trying to party anyways. perhaps we'll skip that and add some more parks/stops to the list.

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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2011, 02:17:03 PM »
I added you on facebook able. I'm the catman. In bed.


Come on I know more of you fuckers live in florida/georgia. What's good?
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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2011, 03:23:56 PM »
Daytona only has one skate park worth visiting in my opinion, it on the river mainland side just north of International. Avoid the Port Orange park and probably the Ormond Beach one as well. There are two Suntrust banks with spots at them on Ridgewood Avenue in Daytona. The one just south of International Speedway Blvd. has some little kicker things in the drive through. The other Suntrust on the same road but north of there in Holly Hill has pretty steep banked walls at the bottom and if you get enough speed can wallride the vertical wall above, same spot also has a steep bank to bank broken up by a doorway. A1A that runs along the beach has a bunch of hotels with random spots, wallride at the Desert Inn hotel, random rails and ledges at some of the other hotels as well. New Smyrna is about 20 minutes from Daytona and they have a decent concrete park, think you have to wear a helmet though and it gets crowded with the surf kids. In the same city there is also a little bowl, probably all under 6 ft, with different hips and shit. That place is just at a public park so I don't think there are helmet rules. It is on Washington street I believe.

Orlando area has a ton of newer parks as well but I don't go out there much so I can't recommend any of them, good street spots as well but you'd probably need some guidance from someone living in that area to locate them.

Miami I have only been to at night and wasn't skating but it is kind of out of the way from the other places you are going to. If you do go that way maybe check out Fort Lauderdale, it has been a while since I visited there but the downtown type area had a few different spots within skating distance from each other. Able is right about Jacksonville and Tampa having more than enough stuff to skate though.

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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2011, 04:48:54 PM »
alrighty so we kinda decided on doing 2 nights in the daytona area, 2 nights in st petersburg/tampa area, 2 nights in gainesville, then back up. anyone have any info on street spots, good food spots, and fun stuff to do ASIDE from skate? i know im gonna hit up that casino near tampa. ideally we'll hit up parks and street so anything you got street-wise will help fill our time! thanks homies

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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2011, 06:53:07 PM »
I added you on facebook able. I'm the catman. In bed.


Come on I know more of you fuckers live in florida/georgia. What's good?
Word! Just checked this thread again. Holler at me if ya'll get around here.

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Re: Florida Road Trip
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2011, 09:43:12 PM »
able i'm jus gonna be honest i completely forgot about hitting you up in the midst up planning, carrying out everything with this trip :( my b. next time for sure.

here's the video of our trip

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