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The Kory Laos memorial freestyle park is under construction. The park idea was started after a young boy (Kory) lost his life while riding street in Tucson, Arizona. His parents made it a goal to honor their son by creating a safe environment for BMX riders in Tucson. The first leg of the park is [...]

In 1995, Mike Novelli made a documentary about bikes being excluded from public skateparks. It is an excellent documentary and won several awards.

Written by Chris Gilligan, Skaters for Public Skateparks  Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:36 Here are a few basic tips that may save time and heartache later.

Manager of a public skatepark, Susan Linerode, wrote a great article on this topic that should shed some light on the continued unconcern of skateparks that are important to the local youth by the community and how you can help!

I got this email today from a mentor of mine from back when I first started riding. If he lived in Staten I would have called him my Neighborhood Superhero. And if you watched the Base Brooklyn video you would understand.

Okay kids, put on your imagination glasses and bear with me for a few minutes. Visualise this scene… You live in a town where there’s not much good to ride. You really like to ride dirt jumps so you build some. After a while, they get torn down and you have to find a new [...]

According to the Tony Hawk Foundation, “A new skatepark should always be presented as a community asset, and promoting it as a mixed-use facility is the most effective way to achieve that.”

23 BMX Magazine is a great resource for reading about the history of BMX. It includes many sections on BMX park riding from the 1970s onward. Check it out here.

This is a great example of city leaders and advocates working together to solve problems. This small community outside of El Paso, Texas wanted a skate park and had decided to build a modular one. When a local skater found out, he threw out the idea of building a skate-able drainage ditch. You can read [...]