Seaside Oregon's New Skatepark Built by PTR - Posted 6-21-07
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Seaside Oregon has a new skatepark built by Placed to Ride, a company whose owner Stefan Hauser , actually lives in Seaside. Seaside breaks the trend of having one big standout feature to draw everyone's attention. It's a small park overall and the deepest bowl was originally planned to be nine feet but due to drainage and location issues it ended up being eight feet. Stefan's approach to the layout of this park seemed to be trying to pack in as much skateable terrain as possible into the limited space. Everything is connected, and the result is almost like one big (but tight) snake run. Pool coping outweighs metal coping by about two to one. There is also one long alley that has a bank on one wall and a transition with a sort of slick parking block coping embedded at the top. A spine separates the pool coping side of the park from the metal coping. The biggest bowl with metal coping has banked walls. The street area kind of gradually melts into the bowls, which makes the whole park fun to cruise around. There are banks, flat ground, straight and curved ledges, plus a sort of cheater Jersey barrier type obstacle that is heavily transitioned at the bottom.

Seaside is not what the skatepark community would call a destination park, but it is definitely well constructed. Although small overall and tight in a lot of places, the end result is a park that is ultimately a lot of fun. You'll be disappointed if you are looking for big and gnarly, but otherwise this is a little gem that any community would be proud to have. Seaside locals sure seemed stoked. I htink helemts are required for kids 16 and under, but it doesn't seem to be enforced. Bikes are allowed as well. There are bathrooms and covered picnic tables on site. There's a very lazy little river and an indoor pool at the community youth center that is literally next door to the park. You can see the pool from the deck of the park, and the reflection the pool coping outside makes it look like the pool inside is a mirror image.

Check out the pictures. Sporadic rain was keeping people away from the park, so there really wasn't a heavy session. A lot of the surface shots may look strangely colored, but that's due to overcast lighting and concrete soaking up little rain drops.

 

 

Seaside Oregon's New Skatepark Built by PTR - Posted 6-21-07
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