Gold Beach, Oregon has a new skatepark built by Wedderburn, Oregon based Liquid Stone Designs which is owned by Lori Linville and in effect, some of the same people who brought you the Coos Bay skatepark. Looks super cool, especially for a town of 1,822 people. Perfect spot for a GVK episode. I’m sure he’ll consider heading their for his annual coast trip. Phase one of the skatepark is 2500 square feet. They’ve been trying to get a skatepark built for the past 15 years. You can get the back story here. There’s a right hand kidney with stairs and a micro bowl with mini capsule. Photos after the jump.

Phase One of the Gresham skatepark built by Dreamland is now open for fun, provided you play by the rules. Phases two and three are distant, and unfunded dreams so far as anyone knows. [Photo: City of Gresham] – Thanks to Bjjpd Tom for the tip

From Skaters for Eugene Skateparks: Here it is amigos. With your input, Dreamland has narrowed the field to one design. HOWEVER, this is not the final word. It is time to tell them what you think. Join us at the next public design forum presentation next Wednesday, January 13t at 6:00 p.m. at the Library. Check out the design renderings and video fly throughs at SkateEugene.org. – Thanks to Chad and Sarib for the tip.

Beaverton, Oregon voters apparently passed a $100 millilon parks bond recently and Schiffler Park redevelopment is a project that’s coming up. There’s an open house coming up and Chad from Skaters for Public Skateparks points out that the THPRD staff seems more interested in putting in a skatespot than the public does. That can’t be right. Skaters should show up to the Open House and set the record straight. Public Meeting: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at Fir Grove Elementary School in the library from 6-8 p.m.

MRZ has posted some great pre-opening day photos of a new skatepark in the LA (Moorpark) area called Poindexter Park. Head on over to Concrete Disciples to see them. It’s a California Skateparks project. Lance Mountain designed the bowl (above right) after a backyard spot named the Buddah pool. There are some construction shots, where esle, but Concrete Disciples? There is supposed to be some sort of snake run feature but so far I can’t find any photos. – Thanks to Keith Cote for the tip.

Visited the new Gresham skatepark being built by Dreamland today and took a few snaps. There’s a lot packed into this thing. The park is about 7 miles east of the Ed Benedict skatepark on SE Powell Blvd. No word on opening day (the Gresham website calls for it to be subtantially completed in January 2010) or how soon before they start on phase 2. More photos after the jump.

A housing development in El Paso required a large drainage ditch. Skate activists Paul Zimmerman (president of the El Paso Skatepark Association) and another guy who goes by PC (?) managed to get the city and builders on the same page. Instead of a ditch that was accidentally skateable and possibly restricted from skating, the end result is a multi-use facility with tranny added specifically to make it more skateable. Apparently, some funds were diverted from a slab and prefab ramp park, no word on whether or not there are complainers on that front. You can get an explanation of the project here on Skatepark.org and a photo essay on the process hosted on Photobucket. The whole thing was hand stacked. [Source: Austin Skate Notes]

The Benton County Skateboard Association has some updates they wanted pass on. I’ve paired them with some photos from a gentleman who falls within the BCSA jurisdiction. You all know him (and love him) as ColinWalshRules.

So we did skulls in a bowl, which was ridiculous, and that’s probably what prompted Jeff Haynes to send me a link to this video called Octopus. It’s a facelift for a bowl in the skatepark of Lugano, which is in Switzerland. The artist(s) this time is called Nevercrew.

A nefarious character going by the name of “Crete Cult” sent in some shots of the new Kelso, Washington park being built by a non-name construction company. As for the review… Rides good…Good Tranny with no kinks Well, there you have it. Anyone else? I recall there was some to-do about the contractor, but the details escape me in a haze of web hosting service outages.