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News / Session Pictures / Updates / Events:
September 21, 2008 - Summer shots from Wheel.
August 31, 2008 - A few more shots
from Brighton.
August 9, 2008 - Brighton.
July 26, 2008 - Dusk egg
session.
July 13, 2008 - The amateurs take back the clover.
July 12, 2008 - Hawk watches a Denver
session.
June 29, 2008 - Another Denver
session.
June 28, 2008 - While the street competition played out, we skated the
bowl.
June 21, 2008 - Commerce
City session on Go Skateboarding Day.
June 12, 2008 - Proving that skateboarding can't
be stopped, no matter what happens.
May 24, 2008 - Mostly
Danny at Commerce
City.
May 18, 2008 - Death
wall.
April 13, 2008 - Green
Valley Ranch.
April 5, 2008 - Wheel
session.
March 22, 2008 - First Denver
skate of 2008.
March 15, 2008 - Wheel
session.
January 27, 2008 - Mott's b-day
jam.
January 19-20, 2008 - Teddy and I shoveled a lot, but it was worth
it.
January 5, 2008 - First
skate of 2008.
December 23, 2007 - Windy Stapleton
session.
November 29, 2007 - The CCPS website has a new look.
November 11, 2007 - Sunny afternoon at that clover.
October 20, 2007 - A few random
shots of Stapleton and Commerce City.
October 6, 2007 - Warmups for the CAMTEST.
September 22, 2007 - Commerce
City session.
September 9, 2007 - Product placement at Denver.
September 8, 2007 - Lots o' stinkbug.
September 2, 2007 - Too damn hot + Labor Day weekend = pretty
quiet at Denver.
August 19, 2007 - Pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers,
and blue diamonds.
August 4, 2007 - Contest
at Trails to benefit the Bennett DIY skatepark project. Big
thanks to Continuum
Skate Shop in Centennial.
July 29, 2007 - Play date at Denver.
July 28, 2007 - Fun session and bails in the dog bowl at Denver.
July 22, 2007 - It's too hot. Small crowd at Denver.
July 7, 2007 - Denver
in the morning. BBQ
session in the afternoon..
June 9, 2007 - Wheel
session.
May 26, 2007 - Stapleton,
with Teddy and Scott.
May 19, 2007 - Wheel
session.
May 12, 2007 - Back
yarder.
April 21, 2007 - I try a frontside air.
April 1, 2007 - Frontside air over the stairs.
March 25, 2007 - Denver
with Perry, Lyle, Otto, Teddy, and others.
March 20, 2007 - Grindwell in Castle Rock closed.
March 18, 2007 - The dog bowl saw some frontside, frontside, backside, and face-down action.
March 11, 2007 - Stapleton - bike, backside ollie, front-side-five, crash, and a fakie-to-disaster.
January 7, 2007 - A couple of things happened in Denver this past year
that I neglected to mention below (Actually, I intentionally omitted
these things, but people continue to remind me). First, the X-Games
indoor skatepark in the Colorado Mills mall reopened in 2006 as a
Woodward park. Second, the Louisville
bowl was "repaired," and the reports are that the flow is better.
Third, Fort Collins went from being the best skatepark town in Colorado
to perhaps the worst when it closed the park at the Northside Aztlan Community Center
and then scrapped the skatepark from its plans for the new Spring
Canyon Park. As a city memorandum explains, "[t]he primary
difference between the park we will build and the one originally
designed is the skate park." Meaning, no skatepark at all.
October 28, 2006 - I spent part of last week in Barcelona.
October 7, 2006 - Jay
sent some pictures of the Loveland Sports
Park's new skatepark.
October 7, 2006 - Denver finally removed the crusher fines from the
perimeter of the Stapleton
skatepark, and replaced it with concrete. They also added two
benches.
August 12, 2006 - The Colorado Coalition for Public Skateparks ("CCPS")
is a Colorado non-profit corporation working to get better and more
skateparks for Colorado skaters. Make a donation, please, via
paypal to donate@coloradoskateparks.org.
August 12, 2006 - You know that iron bridge near the Denver skatepark that goes
over the Platte River? The thing is historic. Apparently
the Nineteenth Street Bridge was originally built in 1888, and is the
oldest surviving wrought iron bridge in Colorado.
June 24, 2006 - Got some pictures of Fairplay
/ South Park skatepark.
May 19, 2006 - A part of the local
natural terrain is being torn down.
March 3, 2006 - The Fallen Warehouse gets busted. -ion has since
put together a comprehensive documentary of this place. I
was fortunate enough to skate (I use that term loosely here) there
twice (12/16/2005 and 1/21/2006).
January 18, 2006 - The Colorado Coalition for Public Skateparks ("CCPS")
has it's own website now. Check it out for the latest in Colorado
public
skateparks.
November 25, 2005 - John
at Fake
Skateboards opened Grindwell indoor skatepark in Castle Rock in
2005. It cosed its doors in March of 2007.
October 21, 2005 - Keith Wilson sent me an old aerial photo of the Concrete
Curl in Aurora.
October 15, 2005 - Fairplay
/ South Park skatepark had its grand opening.
October 6, 2005 - Want to see another empty modular park? Take a
look at Snowmass.
September 23, 2005 - Since I started this site in 2001, I've resisted
the temptation to post any sort of "links" page. Against my
better judgment, I've now posted a "resources"
page.
September 14, 2005 - Another private indoor
skatepark in the Denver area bites the dust. The ESPN X-Games
Skatepark at the Colorado Mills mall in Lakewood went dark this
week.
September 2, 2005 - Edwards
skatepark had its grand
opening.
The bowl is fun, but the street section was not that great. On
the
way there, I hit Silverthorne,
which is always fun.
July 9, 2005 - Last week I took a road trip, and got to skate
a few
places along the way. Laramie,
Wyoming, was fun. Edora
was overrun with bikes.
I bruised my shins up at the Fossil
Creek skate plaza in Ft. Collins, CO. And I found an empty
modular skatepark in Saratoga,
Wyoming.
June 17, 2005 - Denver is going to put up some modular skate
stuff at
the Johnson Rec. Center near Elyria Park (4809 Race Street).
Thanks,
but modular? I'll report back, perhaps, when it's done.
Also,
Steamboat Springs is adding a 24-foot-wide mini ramp with a 12-foot
spine
to its current skatepark, and hopes to add a concrete park next
summer.
May 6, 2005 - I got a chance to try out Westminster
this morning, and posted some pictures and a brief description.
February 12, 2005 - I skated the new park in Louisville,
Colorado. I wasn't impressed, and left after about 15 minutes to
go skate elsewhere.
December 18, 2004 - I put up some more pictures of Aurora,
including a better look at Aurora's big
bowl, and a shot of the bmx
freestyle area.
December 11, 2004 - I got a chance to skate Trails Recreation
Center skatepark in Centennial. Check out
the pictures.
November 20, 2004 - The Trails Recreation Center, with
skatepark, opened
this day in Centennial.
November 6, 2004 - By now you probably have read Westword's
piece on Colorado skatepark construction and design. Also,
there
is one less reason to go to Lowry.
January 19, 2004 - I finally put up some pictures of Castle
Rock's skatepark. Also, I should mention that Stapleton
skatepark is open. I skated it on New Year's Day. Finally,
yesterday I added some additional pictures of the Colorado History
Museum
to the Downtown
Denver page.
January 17, 2004 - I started to add some Central
Denver spots.
December 28, 2003 - Today I took a look at a new concrete
skatepark
in Adams County at 86th Ave. and Zuni. It is within the Hyland
Hills
Parks and Rec. District. If you want to go there, take
Federal, go east on 84th, and go north on
Zuni.
October 18, 2003 - Ft. Collins's Fossil
Creek plaza-style skatepark opened.
September 9, 2003 - Estes
apparently put up more wooden obstacles, and called it a
skatepark.
Thanks to Jay for the update.
On August 19, 2003 - The Chocolate team's Hot Chocolate Tour
hit Denver.
Check out the Hot Chocolate video for footy.
July 11, 2003 - The Denver Snake
Run opened with a small dedication
on July 11, 2003. Phase II also includes some new
rails, ledges, and angle
irons on existing edges.
June 22, 2003 - Vans in Westminster is now closed. Along
with
Bladium, this is be the second Denver-area private skatepark to close
in
recent years.
May 8, 2003 - The flat for the Snake
Run was poured.
April 22, 2003 - You must take a look at Trinidad's
new skatepark, built by Grindline.
It is breathtaking.
March 17, 2003 - Take a look at the site
plan for Phase II, courtesy of The
Architerra Group.
November 23, 2002 - Evidence
why you must session the new spots while they're still skateable.
I was lucky enough to get one session in before the bench was
added.
Thanks to Zach for the bad news.
November 14, 2002 - The ESPN X-Games Skatepark at the Colorado
Mills
mall in Lakewood opened.
September 22, 2002 - Downtown
Denver spots added to the "Others" page.
July 18, 2002 - Tony Hawk's Gigantic Skatepark Tour visited
Denver Skatepark.
See some nice
pictures submitted by Kevin Holmes.
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