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Trinidad, CO Skatepark


View from the top - click here for an XL version of the above pic!
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Trinidad, Colorado...sex change capital of the world, I guess...I wasn't there for that, though! Just get your ass here already!!! This Grindline park is unbelievably fun, probably the most fun I have ever had at a skatepark. The whole place is 100% flow (well, 99% flow - there is a dead end on the platform at the deep end after the kicker jump, but it isn't worth complaining about because the rest of the park is amazing!)

view from the side - click here for an XL version of the above pic!

This park was paid for almost entirely by Colorado State Lottery funds! There was to be a street area in the top section, but Grindline got the go-ahead to build whatever they wanted, so instead they built the entire park into this massive concrete toboggan run! There are all sorts of different transitions, corners, pump bumps, spines, hips, transfers - there is an infinite amount of lines at this park. You can start at the top, carve your way down to the bottom, then pump your way back to the top (a couple of those runs and you learn the true meaning of the word fatigue!)

view from the deep end #1 - click here for an XL version of the above pic!

I asked a little kid there what he thought of the park, and he said it was OK. Just OK? I wanted to smack him! He said he liked street better (I saw that one coming), and he wished that they had built more street stuff. I told him that he can find street stuff to skate anywhere, but this type of tranny doesn't just appear on a street corner. The whole concept of a "street" area at a park is futile anyway. The little kid didn't care, and so I shut up and skated off. Street skating is rad, but kids today put too much emphasis on what they see in the videos and magazines. They need to just skate everything in front of them. Enough old-man babbling out of me. Trinidad is on the Colorado/New Mexico border. I-25 runs through the town, and its halfway (3 between Denver, CO or Santa Fe, NM (three hours north or south). Las Animas County is one of the cheapest places to live in Colorado (because it's one of the poorest) - you could retire here as easily as you could in Florida, and now there's actually a reason to!!

view from the deep end #2

pump bump, taco corner and oververt pocket	rollers - three quick ones on the left, one fatty on the right leading to the kicker jump
a nice touch - somebody stole the wheels though
	the rules are the bare minimum: free, no pads, dawn to dusk
another nice Grindline touch
	note the similarities between the park and the mountain in the background
stamp of quality
	gangstas in Trinidad


idiot local kids - get outta tha way!!

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DIRECTIONS: Look up in the sky - its up there in heaven! Take I-25 to Exit 13 I think. You want the exit for Main Street. Once off the highway, head east towards the Sonic Drive in Burger Hole, and bang a right immediately after Sonic on to I believe Santa Fe Trail. Whatever its called, just pull the hairpin to the right after Sonic and go up that hill. After about a quarter mile, make a left onto Jefferson I believe (look for signs for the Rec Center - that's the street you want!) Follow it down, then bear right at the fork in the road (onto Beshoar Rd maybe?) Follow that up and the park is on your right. Big gray thing can't miss it.

Ultimate Sports & Nutrition
2505 East Main Street, Trinidad, CO 81082
(719) 846-8359

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