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Skateboard Park Guidelines:
Most outdoor parks are free and do not require permission forms, helmets, or pads (there are exceptions).
When the venue is indoors, assume there is a fee (anywhere from $5 to $15 for the day), and often the operator will insist on signed waivers for those under 18, and safety equipment like pads and helmets. Privately operated indoor parks often have a pro shop and snack bar. Almost all indoor parks provide washrooms.
If there is a phone number provided it is either the municipality or the private owner. In any case, we suggest you make phone calls or talk to locals before heading out of your way to a strange park. Happy Skating!
Amhurstburg
It’s a steel (overpriced arc-ramp) park – a bunch of 5 foot quarters, a five foot mini , a 4 foot spine, a 2.5 foot jump box. Simcoe street.
Ancaster
The equipment is all the old ramps from The Grind in Dundas. It has a funbox, flat
box (with ledge going down), 4 quarter pipes (numerous sizes), wallride, flat bank,
spine, and tons of rails and grind boxes. It is open from July to September.
Take the 403 up the escarpment from Hamilton to the Fiddlers Green exit. Spring
Valley arena.
Ajax
Modular parks with ramps, ledges and rails on large asphalt area
North and south Ajax at Community Centres
Barrie
A large, spacious, concrete park with flat banks, pyramid, ledges, quarter pipes,
flat bar, hand rail, and a half bowl. Minimal lighting allows skating until approx. 10
pm.
Park St. (beside the armories)
Beaverton
A fun park with movable objects, including: manual boxes, 3 quarters, a box with spines and an adjustable rail and a ledge up across and down, two kickers (straight and curved).
Bobcaygeon
The ground is smooth asphalt and the ramps are wooden with plastic surfaces.
The setup includes a quarter pipe, pyramid, speed ramp, box, and moveable rails.
Its not worth a road trip, as some of the obstacles are suffering from disrepair.
The closest “shop” is Buckeye Source for Sports.
Bowmanville
Similar design as Pickering, but fewer obstacles and harsher lines. Still worth a visit if you are in the area and dying to skate. Waverly and Hwy.2 behind rec centre.
Brampton – South Fletcher’s Skate Park
Helmets are mandatory for skaters.
500 Ray Lawson Blvd. in Brampton, Ontario
Brooklin
Nice big blue ramps and obstacles. Smooth, slight downhill for nice
set-up speed. Lots of rippers here. One of the better parks in Ontario. Nice setting.
Surrounded by grass and trees. Take 401 to Whitby. North on Brock to Brooklin.
Hit Hwy7 and go east to the arena.
Burlington – Maple Park
A tight little concrete park with an amazing bowl to launch out of, some stairs, a
pyramid, a quaterpipe with way too much vert, some flat rails, ledges surrounding
the one side and a little bump thats useless. Its located right beside the
Mapleview mall and beside some pretty nice ditches.
Collingwood
Concrete park with mini ramp and street course. A membership and/or fee is
required. For directions: (705) 445-1030 ext. 244
Courtice
Nice smooth concrete park with 2 quarter pipes, cloverleaf pool, rails and freestyle area. Park is layed out so you can actually loop the park with one push. Located at the Courtice Community Complex, on Courtice Rd, just north of Hwy#2 (king st).
Dunnville
A tennis court park with ¼ pipe, flat bank, grind box, hand rail, kickers, launch. Street course good for beginners. Free. No pads required. Located in Lions park.
Gravenhurst Skatepark
Rumoured new park by VDZ designs for summer 2003?
Grimsby
Tight, outdoor concrete park with banks, 1/4 pipes, tables, ledges, pyramid, and mini-half.
Christie St.
Hamilton – Parkdale
It is a new, all-concrete park with roll-ins with rail / ledge on one side and quarterpipe/ banks on the other. There is a table top in between and a small rail. East Hamilton, corner of Queenston and Parkdale (visible from main street) in all. Washrooms in arena.
Hamilton – Beasley Bowl
A nifty park whose namesake is an ex-wading pool, turned bowl, with a serious
kicker at one end. Little bumps and a ledge, and a decent quarter pipe. Annual
contest draws a serious crowd and all the locals rip. You’ve seen the photos of
Appleyard and Cameron ripping here! Check it out. Beasley Community Centre 27
Elgin Rd. (905) 546-4042
Hamilton – Evolushun skate shop and park
Two 16 foot wide mini ramps, back to back, but not with a spine. It also features a street section, but it’s pretty tight. It cost 10 bucks a session, and helmets are required.
1508 Upper James Hamilton (905) 383-6575
Hanover
Half pipe, pyramid (with two rails), quarter pipes, wall ride, and a portable grind
box on top of picnic tables. Located on 7th ave, where the old pool used to be.
Havelock
The park, as minimal as it is, is pretty well built. It looks like one of those classic Powell fun box designs, with two flatbanks and two small kickers on opposite sides of the box. There’s a little extension on one kicker so you can do little wall rides or stalls, and in the centre of one flatbank there’s a rail. There’s also a 6 foot ramp that’s in great shape.
Highway 7 (half way between TO and Ottawa)
Ingersoll
The park includes a couple of quarter pipes, a fun box, grind rails, and much
more. Located at the Optimist Club on Thames St.
Kanata
The only permanent skatepark in the Ottawa area (except for On Deck skateshop’s mini ramp). Kanata is a 10 minute drive west of Ottawa. The park is concrete and contains a bowl, pyramid w/ a kinked ledge, half-pyramid w/ a straight ledge, 8 set with ledges, 3 set, long rail, small spine, roll-ins, quarter pipes, banks, and curbs. The design has a number of flaws but the park is still pretty fun.
Walter Baker Park, near the KRC, which is off Terry Fox Drive.
www.skatekanata.com/skatepark.html
Kincardine
It has two 8 ft. 1/4 pipes, a fly box, a pyramid, two flat banks, a fun box, one 10 ft.
vert ramp, and two sets of grind rails. Helmet required. Located at the Davidson
Center.
Kingston - Revelation
A new indoor skatepark. It has quarter pipes, banks, a pyramid, table tops / ramps
with ledges, a grind bar, and a funbox.
Exit the 401at Montreal St. Drive south and turn right on MaCaully. Look for Wally
Elmer Arena.
Kitchener – Waterloo
A concrete park with a pyramid, bowl, quarter pipe, rail, banks and spines.
Exit the 401 at Hwy. 8, exit Ottawa St., make a left at lights, follow to auditorium.
Lakefield
A small park inside the tennis courts with a rough asphalt ground
and old wooden ramps. A new park may be built soon, and a mini-ramp may be added.
Lindsay
Terrible, rough asphalt and shabby obstacles. Skateboarding is illegal in this
town! Shame on those responsible! Neighbouring Peterborough has a
decent park.
London
A smooth concrete park with lots of good street obstacles including a five set and
a three with ledges going off both sides as well as tons of other good stuff.
Located on Elizabeth St. at Carling Heights Recreation Centre For directions call:
(519) 451-6580 or(519) 645-8235
Midland
Concrete with several ramps and a half-pipe.
Little Lake Park.
Minden
Decent wooden park with banks, rails, funbox,1/4 pipes, and kickers.
Minden fairground
Mississauga
mega park in the works…
Mount Forest
Another old tennis court turned into a park, the obstacles include: a 4ft. mini ramp, 3 1/4 pipes, a fly box, and a fun box. Helmet required.
Campbell DeVore Park on Cork St (behind the Community Centre)
Napanee
A concrete park with a rough bowl, quarter pipe, flat bank, small ledges and small, partial pyramid.
Newmarket
Outdoor park under construction. Expected to be completed by mid-summer or earlier.
North Bay
An indoor park with: 3 regular 1/4 pipes, 1 small 1/4 pipe, volcano, kicker, spines, boxes, picnic table. Helmets must be worn at all times.
West Ferris arena.
Oakville – Shell Park
Brand new facility looks to be the mother of Ontario’s new facilities. An outdoor,
concrete mecca with a ton of every kind of skateboard related obstacle you can
think of. The park was the subject of a profile in the spring 2000 edition of
SBCskateboard magazine. Worth a very long drive from anywhere.
Call Hustler skateshop for directions.
Orangeville – The Edge
Solid indoor skateboard facility includes: 4′ miniramp, 4′, 5′, and 6′ quarterpipes, 2 funboxes with various ledges and rails, as well as curbs, benches, and manual pads. Helmets are mandatory.
#5 Faulkner St. (519) 941-6126
Orillia
The town that tickets! Be warned – skateboarding is illegal in this town!
Outdoor, concrete park with: funbox, bank, rails, stairs with rail, and snakerun.
Missisauga St. just after the LCBO (turn right on unpaved road).
Oshawa
Harmony Rd between Olive and King
Owen Sound – Getaway Sk8 Board Park Park
Terrain: a pyramid, banks, mini ramp, quarterpipes, funbox, stairs, ledges, launches, and rails. Admission is free. Located on the corner of 1st Avenue West and 14th Street West.
808 2nd Ave. (519) 376-1440
Petawawa
Quarter pipes, fun boxes, rails, everything…
2 hours west of Ottawa
Peterborough
Concrete park. 6,127 square feet to be expanded to around 8,000 sq. ft. before the
snow flies. Made by the same guys who did the Oakville skatepark, it has
quarters, ledges, rails, a launch ramp, a vert wall, a mini half pipe, and more…
Pads and helmets are optional (so far). No lights at park – skate until dusk.
Street skating is illegal on the sidewalk downtown.
On the corner of Monoghan Rd. and McDonnel St
Pickering
A little park with good obstacles that suffers from a cramped and inefficient layout.
Worth a visit though. Home to rippers like Donnie Cameron and Ryan Leeson.
401 east. Brock Rd. north. West on Pickering Parkway to Valley Farm Rd. North to
rec centre.
Port Elgin
Small space with smooth surface, and non-maintained obstacles: quarter pipe, mini-half, funbox, and ledges, in various states of disrepair.
East on Mill street.
Port Perry
Smooth concrete pad with prefab obstacles made of steel: 5 ft. tall, eight-foot-wide quarter pipe, pyramid with flat bar, flat bank, and two curbs.
Prescott
Concrete park on 80 x100 foot pad includes a quarter bowl, fun boxes, two pyramids, stair set, banks, rails etc.
Quinte West / Trenton
Designed by the revered Jim Barnum of Spectrum -16,000 square feet
Ready summer 2003
Sarnia – Revolution Sports
www.revolutionsportspark.com
6000 sq. ft indoor park (3000 sq. ft outdoors) with 6′ mini ramp
(24′ wide w/ spine transfer), and many 1/4 pipes, pyramids, street spines and
wedges.
(519) 339-9991
611 St. Clair Street, Point Edward.
Sarnia
A concrete park with a couple of large bumps, a rail, and a bowl. Located on
Maxwell St.
For directions call: (519) 344-4782.
Simcoe
A nice park: various quarters, flat banks, pyramids, ledges, and a half-pipe (sixteen ft wide, four ft high with extension).
Stratford
Call for rates and hours. Helmets mandatory.
20 Glastonbury Drive – Stratford, Ontario
Phone: (519) 271-8927 / SkatePark: (519) 275-3702
E-Mail: skatepark@stratfordfairgrounds.com
Strathroy
A small concrete park. Proximity to London suggests visiting there instead.
St. Catharines – Sud Canada
Joe Sud and company have one of the longest running facilities in the area. They
have an 11′ vert ramp outside and a 5′ mini ramp and street course indoors. A
combination of proximity to the U.S. and a great set-up means they are always a
stop for touring teams like Invisible and Toy Machine. 26 St. Paul Cr. (905)
682-SUDS
St. Catharines – West 49 park
This is a 20,000 sq. foot facility that includes a beginners park. Open 10am TO
10pm Helmets Mandatory (available for rent at the on-site shop). At Prudhommes
Wet & Wild, Exit Victoria Ave. off Q.E.W. Niagara (just outside St. Catharines)
Skaters under 18 must have release form signed by parent or guardian- see
west49.com for more details.
St. Thomas – X-UP Skate & BMX park
32,000sq ft. with numerous quarterpipes, wallride, kicker/tabletop, flybox, a tabletop with ledge, handrails, mini spine and a beginners park.
Washrooms, skate shop with rentals (helmet mandatory).
Phone: 519-631-6738 or 1-877-xupskate
Email: xup_s@hotmail.com
85 South Edgeware Rd.
Thorold
A cement park that has a 3 or 4 set with a small hand rail, pyramid with a lip on
one side and a hand rail. Also a steep volcano, a steep quarterpipe and a variety
of square rails.
Timmins
A small concrete park in Porcupine, beside the arena, with a bowl and tabletops
with rails.
Toronto (downtown west) – Adrift Skateshop
Inside the back of the shop in one of Toronto’s hippest neighbourhoods.
There’s a really small mini ramp & street course – $5.
299 Augusta Avenue – Just west of Spadina, just south of College.
416-515-0550 (Kensington Market)
adriftskateshop.com
Toronto (downtown east) – John Innes CRC
Toronto ripper Rob Poyner apparently helped youth worker Devin Fan with this unique park concept which is located inside a 50′ x 100′ gymnasium (5000 sq ft). Obstacles include: picnic table, some ramps, a couple of flat banks, a manual pad, a 2 level 8 foot staircase, an incline box, and a flat bar. Plans include a spine, half pipe and quarter pipe and a new staircase.
Regular hours are Friday night from 8pm to 11pm. Saturday is special girls only and beginners at 11:15am and 12:30 pm respectively (they will loan a board!)
Contact Devin Fan at 416-392-6779 or dfan@toronto.ca
Toronto – (Woodbridge) -Common Ground
Technically located in Woodbridge (think 400 north of Steeles) on the northwestern edge of the city, this park is indoors and looks pretty spectacular. The website has photos. Check it out.
421 Rowntree Dairy Rd. Woodbridge ON L4L 8H1
phone: (905) 264-8428
commongroundsk8.com
Toronto – (Downtown) – Shred Central
The indoor refuge for the urban skate rat. This park is small, but the owners put a
helluva lot of work into the facility. Witness the recent construction of a bowl with
spine! Also has a nice lane with quarter pipe/flat bank to funbox with ledge and rail
and a wallride at the other end. 19 St. Nicholas (one block west of Yonge and
Wellesley) (416) 923-9842
shredcentral.com
Toronto – Cummer
This park does feature a large bowl, though some find it hard to get used to. The design is flawed. The lines that might have been possible have been compromised by an attempt to bend the park around a corner where the bowl sits. The result is two distinctly separate areas that should have been one. The obstacles themselves are pretty decent.
It’s a 5 minute drive north from the 401, up Leslie St, and a few blocks north of Finch, behind the rec centre.
Toronto – Scarborough – Rouge Hill
6,000 sq ft concrete park with: half bowl, quarter pipe, various rails, euro gap, flat banks, and Hubba ledge. The Perception shop is conveniently located right next door. Lawrence Ave/ Port Union Rd. (416) 724-5228
Tri-towns (New Liskeard, Haileybury and Cobalt)
A mobile park that is shared. Any more info?
Vaughn
Vert ramp, spine ramp, ledges, rails, fun box, and flat banks. Helmet Mandatory.
Located at Rutherford and Keele.
Welland
modular park – moveable ramps, rails, etc
Whitby – Iroqouis Park
This is a pretty decent park with mighty big obstacles. It is slightly flawed but a
step in the right direction. Pyramid, quarters, flat bars, ledges, volcano and flat
banks. 401 and Brock beside rec centre.
500 Victoria St. W, Whitby, ON (905) 668-7765
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