Cannon Beach is a sleepy little beach town that is just about 10 minutes south of Seaside, Oregon. Cannon Beach’s new park opened in May of 2008. Placed to Ride built a new concrete park on the site of the old one which was essentially just a steep “E” shaped asphalt banks on a flat spot. It was the kind of spot that would be fun if it occurred “naturally,” but was pretty disappointing as something purpose built for skateboarding. (Sam, don’t take down those old pictures!) The new park is very small in both square footage and height, but it’s packed full of skateable terrain including pool coping, ledges and bank variations. I don’t know if money was the object or what, but it there sure is a lot of adjacent space that looks like it could have been used. In any case, it’s has the potential for a lot of fun. If I had to say something critical it would be that I thought I noticed a spot or two where the transition was a little wonky, which is highly unusual for PTR. I really didn’t ride it much. My body was wrecked from the day before and tired from trudging around on the beach. You can see some park overview shots after the jump.
Cannon Beach’s New Skatepark
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6 comments
marek
exactly jenn, i almost got a ticket over there. this is f-ing oregon for f-ing christs sake. i really dont see myself skating there anytime soon. screw those yahoos.
Jenn
Nice little park, but Cannon Beach is not friendly to skaters. They require helmets and do patrol the park to enforce the rule. If you question the authority of the person “on patrol” (who is not a cop), even politely, they will “ban” you “forever” from the park. What a joke.
Fitz
Correction: It wasn’t asphalt originally! It was concrete, though after a decade or two of Coastal rain, it rode about as well as old asphalt.
I wish they’d incorporated the original spot into the park somehow. Years ago, we pinched a curb and hoisted it up onto the top of one of the banks. Ten times a better park for doing so…
Still, a cool, quirky little rebuild.
Fitz
Yep, good, slippy fun.
Heath
Y’know how every once in a while, you wish there was a really mellow bowl to skate? Cannon Beach is the answer. Cool park.
Welsh Pete
The bowl is super fun and the vert wall in the street area is deadly- in a good way. Nice place for a post-surf slash around.