Completed in the summer of 2001, the Newburyport, MA skatepark is a mandatory stop on any New England roadtrip. It features three beautiful concrete bowls built by Geth and crew from Airspeed Skateparks out of Oregon. Airspeed deserves truckloads of congratulations, for they did a perfect job with the concrete. It is so smooth and non-porou that, it begins to dry minutes after it rains, and with a little broom-and-squeegee work, it's ready to skate twenty minutes later. The town deserves props as well for choosing Airspeed, when nearly every other community in Massachussetts got swindled by Scituate (pronounced "shituate" in both the literal and figurative senses) Concrete (See the Waltham, MA park or Crawford, NY park for perfect examples of how to waste taxpayer's money.)

This is the junior high school bowl. It's for kids who have already hit puberty and are too zitty and hormonal for the kiddie bowl, but would receive monster wedgies and toilet bowl swirlies from the upperclassmen in the vert bowl. This bowl has tons of elements to it: seven corners, a square hip, a wide three-sided pyramid thing, two escalators one of which descends the entire left side of the bowl. There is also a unique volcano with a roll-in on the back side, and to top it all off, the junior high bowl spines into the vert bowl so the cool eighth graders can go ahead and drink off the keg at the party in the woods with the seniors. The tranny of the spine wall (right side in photo) flattens out, creating steep-ass flat bank adventure.