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| This is one of my favorite skateparks in the entire world. Authentic, dirty and true, this masonite monster of a park stands out against today's world of corporate-ruled indoor recreation centers. |
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| This park is enormous. It comes complete with a big ol' vert ramp with pool coping extensions and a channel. The flatbottom doubles as a beginner area when the vert dogs aren't boosting into the ceiling out of its big trannys. There is also a fast and tight peanut vert bowl that is surely a good time and rarely sports a crowd. The two standout features of Skater Island have got to be the snakerun bowl and the street course. Along with the vert ramp and the peanut bowl, the snakerun bowl takes up half or the giant warehouse. It starts with the deep end, seven feet and topped with burly pool coping. It weaves and escalates into a perfect round hip, forming a question-mark shape, then spines into a three and four foot kiddie pool. After all these years, the ramps are still in good shape and the coping is fast and non-stick like Teflon. The street course takes up the entire other half of Skater Island. Long in length and full of flow, you can start at one end and hit the various rails, ledges, pyramids, and hips on your way to the other end, then turn around and hit it again. Or you can skate perpendicular to traffic and hit one of the over-the-doorway gaps (just keep your head up!) The course seriously has at least one of every obstacle imaginable, including an over-vert quarterpipe, a few corners, and my personal favorite-the jersey barrier bank-thing! |
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| This park does cost some money, but it is well worth the cash and the drive from nearly anywhere in New England, the Northeast or beyond. Helmets are required. There is also a skateshop on site. Bikes are allowed Sunday and Tuesday Nights 5-9. Check their website here for up-to-date info on fees, hours, events and other news. |
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| DIRECTIONS: Take Rt. 24 south from Mass. into Rhode Island. Rt. 24 turns into Rt. 114. Follow that road for about 7 or 8 traffic lights, and look for the big sign for the park on the left. It is in a big brown warehouse set back from the road. If you are coming from the north and end up in a large commerical shopping center area, turn around-you've gone too far. |
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