I was in Forest Grove to watch the mighty Boxers play soccer and had some time to kill before the kickoff, so I walked over to check out the local skatepark. Lincoln Park Skatepark was (poorly) designed and built by Site Design Group in 2004. It has that early 2000’s vibe of “I know how to pour concrete but I don’t understand the scales of transitions or how to set coping.” There are some street plaza elements that are successful, but the concrete picnic table looks like it was made to fit NBA players and the volcanoes are steep and tall, one of them comically so. There is one section of a very long quarter pipe that has “noping” and nothing on the opposing. side. Still, the skateboarding locals are friendly and it’s better than nothing. That’s Xavier on the long rail slide above.
Let’s get these two spectacular failures out of the way first. The volcano is hilarious in person, and the picnic table may not look it in this picture, but it’s way too tall.
Here’s some things that they did well, mostly street plaza style ledges and a stair set with nice banked walls.
Here’s the full shot of Xavier, posted with permission. I hope I didn’t ruin your video part. This rail slide element looks pretty fun.
Here’s some things that are sort of mediocre, or impossibly hard for mere mortal skaters, including another view of the picnic table and some steep stair sets. I didn’t quite get it in the photos, but the transition to the right of that staircase in the last shot is also pretty steep. Certainly navigable, but why?
This sort of ditch-like street area is probably fun too, but it looks depressing.
Lastly, the long quaterpipe bank with inset coping, and another less comical volcano.
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