Monday 10 June 2013

The Whole Life List current to date posted.

Great Canadian Skate Trip (with rating) 22 parks in 21 days
Thunder Bay D-
Forks Winnipeg A                                                             (NL)
Swift Current, SK    A+                                                    (NL)
Calgary A+++                                                                     (Ssk8)
Golden Freeride park B+                                              (NL)
Revelstoke D
Ben Lee Kelowna A-                                                       (NL)
Penticton Youthpark A                                                  (NL)
Lumby C                                                                               (Ssk8)
Coldstream A                                                                     (Ssk8)
Nanaimo B++                                                                     (NL)
Ucluelet B++                                                                      (NL)
Tofino A-                                                                             (NL)
Vic West B+                                                                        (NL)
Squamish A+                                                                      (Ssk8)
Whistler (C+) & Original Snake Run (A)                   (Ssk8)
Kamloops Rotary A                                                          (NL)      
Edmonton Church Downs B                                         (Ssk8)
Winnipeg Happyland B-
Kenora B+                                                                           (Ssk8)
Marathon C
Espenola D
TORONTO PARKS
Lawrence & Weston - concrete preforms on a concrete base. Small but never busy.
Cummer – Older of Toronto’s concrete parks.  Still fun.
Bathurst & Dundas. Nice wood mini-pipe and some obstacles.  Seasonal park
East York - Small new park.  2 hubbas have been capped with granite ledges. Locals have added a pipe for jamming and a wall ride. Park is tight but fun when it’s not busy (Ssk8)
Vanderhoof - best bowl on southern ON (for now) needs more street (Ssk8)
Port Union – Originally a wood preform park. Now a pretty good concrete park. (Ssk8)
Warden & Ellesmere - awesome new park with large bowl section to come. (Ssk8)
Etobicoke - preform park in tennis court. Preforms may be from temporary east york park because they have x-village stickers on them

GTA Parks
Mississauga Icelands (NL)
Mississauga Credit River
Brampton            Ray Lawson - cruddy wood park – continual expansion but best suited for bmx
McMurchy – lots of preforms on old parking lot. Pre-fab mini pipe is good.
Jim Archdekin – see ray lawson without the expansion.
Chinguacousy Park - beautiful 15000 foot concrete park with some cool features not found in other parks (Ssk8)
Sandalwood and ching - preforms on a fresh asphalt base. mini with spine.
Markham - beautiful graffiti free park. (Ssk8)
Richmond hill - Metal preform park on fresh asphalt base, all ramps are placed on a concrete slab.
Pickering - booo, Quarter pipes that have safety rails at the top
Ajax North - metal preforms on concrete base
Ajax South (41) - metal preforms on concrete base
Whitby Iroquois – Old concrete park. I like it.
Whitby McKinney – New concrete park. I like it.  Great mini-pipe.
Oshawa - donevan rec. Center.  Fun park. Old but good lines
Whitby Psych ghetto gym park - if you’ve never been it’s too late now
Road Trip
Georgetown – sucks. Lame little park kinda like a wading pool where all obstacles lead to the center.
Bowmanville - see Pickering. Same builders. Quarter pipes that have safety rails at the top. Park narrows to 8 feet in the middle.  May have been demolished
Madoc - super sweet concrete park with pretty much everything including a bunny park. July 25, 2007(Ssk8)
Havelock, ON - Unacceptable. I thought there was nothing worse than Brampton but I was wrong.
Milton - beautiful long style park.  Great for practice.
Bolton – sweet long park (Ssk8) Phase 2 bowl complete.
Acton - worth the drive. only downfall is one unlevel concrete joint.  (NL)
Baden - surprised anything was there, but don’t waste your time.
Courtice - Rob Piontek memorial skateparkgreat park. good times. (NL)
Brooklin - A quandary.  Not that good a park but apparently well cared for. Totally skateable, just not well conceived.  Asphalt base with moulded 4 set and grind bars, pre-fab box, bank and 3 quarters. 
Shred Central – poop
Orangeville (NL) so nice, like Acton and Bolton combined.
Vaughn (NL)   Nice park.  Really easy to skate and improve skills.
Brantford (NL) Sweet plaza style park with common elements of a skatepark.   Cool mini with benches reminds me of China Banks, SF.
Hamilton – Turner park(ssk8) New plaza park next to police station. Everything is really original and smooth.  Bowl is wicked (sorry Hoof)(#60)
Malton – concrete preforms on concrete base like Weston &Lawrence.  Lots of things packed into a small space.
Hamilton - Waterdown(NL) - best bowl in Ontario. smooth with good heights and a nice spine.
Keswick(ssk8) – Similar to cummer but actually skateable.(63)
Cj’s Skatepark - Very nice park, Mini with spine and roller, mini with extension.(64)
Kitchener – The Aud,  Classic old park with a great set-up(65)
Bala (NL)- nice sk8 spot. 1st picnic bench I've found in ON (66)
Cambridge(ssk8) – Riverside park is ok. New bowl is nice.(Brampton(sandalwood) & this make 68)
Mississauga/Clarkson -  good assortment of ledges and rails  Big # 69!!!
Ashbridges Bay – Interesting plaza style layout.  Park can handle lots of skaters.(ssk8)  #70!
Xtreme wheels Buffalo NY. Big indoor park with tons of stuff.

LONDON TRIP July 19, 2010
A- Naiomi-Almeida Park* small newline skatespot
B - White Oaks Optimist Park*
C - Basil Grover Park* spectrum skatespot
D - West Lions Park  #75
E - Kiwanis Skateboard Plaza NEW newline plaza   # 76
F - Stronach Park NL
TILLSONBURG SKATEPARK  NL # 78
Orillia – Top 3 worst Parks in Canada. Lousy construction.  Ridiculous “quarter pipe with vert”.   Coping sits on top of quarter.  Enough flat bars to allow for actual skating.
Huntsville – Great flow to the park.  Nice bowl.  Bad run off issues floods park with thick dirt after rain. Bring shovel and broom.(ssk8)
Bracebridge – Nice park in shaded area. Not a fan of the bridge element.  Super smooth bowl. The pit seems to suck you in.(ssk8)
Barrie – Old park with giant elements.  Like Kitchener and Orillia had a giant (ugly) baby. Probably the worst Acceptable park.(#82)
Lindsay – Metal performs on decent asphalt pad.  1st of City of Kawartha Lakes 3 parks.
Omemee - Metal performs on decent asphalt pad.  2nd of City of Kawartha Lakes 3 parks.  Exact same performs as Lindsay.
Uxbridge – Dirt cheap wood ramps on concrete base. (85)
Port Hope, ON – Nice concrete park, typical park style. Flow is excellent.(ssk8)
Warkworth, ON – Metal preforms on old asphalt parking lot.
Campbellford, ON – Awesome park by the river.  Great use of granite and natural stone. Sweet pool coping.  My favourite bowl ever with a huge bank with granite at the top, a steep pool style shallow end, perfect mini pipe area, a big deep end with slight oververt, a couch, and a rocking roll in roll out area with pool coping.(ssk8) (88)
Port Perry, ON – Bank, pyramid, quarter and mini-pipe preforms on a concrete base.
Orono, ON – Concrete preforms on concrete base.  Arrangement of obstacles is very poor. (90)
London – Medway Bowl.  Really nice big bowl with a pool coping deep end, a spine and wall ride.(ssk8)
London – Ledge Land, a bunch of concrete and metal benches in front of the bandstand a Victoria Park. Designated by the city as a skate spot.
London – Wosley Baracks.  Old park with new plaza style street coarse addition and a pool.(Update by ssk8)(93)
Oshawa North – Sweet plaza style skatepark with great lines and obstacles. NL
Vaughan Jack Pine Skate Spot – Small skate spot in community park. NL(95)
Big O, Montreal – iconic skate spot located on the Olympic park. Tight concrete quarters.
Brockville – nice Park at the arena. NL(97)
Picton, ON – Great park with large area surrounded by well kept lawn. Huge mini bowl and good lines. Rotating Manny pad.(ssk8)
Belleville, ON – Pretty good park with some interesting obstacles like the double step gap. Deep bowl.(ssk8)
Port Dover, ON   NUMBER 100!!! – Great park with round about flow lines. Nice pool in the middle. Similar to Huntsville but smaller.(ssk8)
Kitichener, ON -    Nice bowl, interesting street section.   Some obs. Need concrete on both sides.  More thought put into ride ups on one side.(ssk8 & HS)
Bancroft, ON  Good park by the river. Nice mellow bowl with good parallel sides. Sweet gap filled in with cheap green carpet(nice but could have been better) .(ssk8)
8th Street Toronto.   Toronto’s new best park.  Pool style bowl, nice quarters and banks.  6 foot quarter with slight oververt.NL
Vaughan Hillside skate spot.  Cute community skate spot.  Properly constructed “wading pool” feature.NL
Peterborough, ON  105  Big VF&A concrete hole.  Coping diameter is 4” and is curved metal instead of pipe.  2 parts of the park that you have to walk to. Some banks are too steep and there is still difficulty getting speed. Rails are placed too high.  There is a ridiculous bank wall that would be fun if the rest of the park didn’t suck.  It’s built like a bmx park with no bikes allowed.
Hamilton – Parkdale.  Old small park. Everything you need.
Hamilton – Beasley Bowl  Old bowl with a quarter, lump and jersey barrier.
Burlington – Maple park.  Another VF&A joke with a ride up to stair set. More one foot with vert.
Vaughan – Twelve Oaks Park.  Transition centered skate spot.  Circular bowl with roll in and extension.  2 stair sets, 2 mini q’s and some benches in a great layout.NL
Toronto – Dufferin Grove Park.  A couple crappy ramps and boxes on a hockey rink.  110!
24/7 skate church, Burlington.  Mini and ramps
Napanee, ON.  Old park with banks, quarters and old school pool.(ssk8)
Tyendinaga Mohawk Terr.  Big concrete park with giant ufo crashed on one side.  Really slick concrete. Some features are difficult to hit with a skateboard.HS
Trenton – Quinte West Park.   Old concrete park with good lines and features. Lower section can be ollied into but no ramps to go up.  (ssk8)
Knoxville, TN – Park the size of (& located in an old) baseball field.  Large bowl with over-vert. Big deep pool with coping. Good sized street section and small beginner park.
Lexington, KY – 90’s era concrete park. Old but has good flow. Located in a nice city park.
Windsor, ON – Large park with metal pre-fab on concrete base.  Well set up with everything you could imagine.  Equal to Richmond Hill in quality.
Chatham, ON – Concrete park with a nicely designed “big 3” setup. NL
Simcoe, ON – The best community built wood park I’ve seen.  Functional for both skateboards and BMX.
Waterloo, ON – 120! New Line park centered around a volcano with a tree in it.  Includes features of plaza, transition and snake run.  New era of circular parks. 
Vaughan – Freedom Park Skate spot.  Small community park with a quarter, rail and unuseable pyramid and ledge.
Toronto – Wallace-Emerson community park   Metal pre-forms on concrete base. Geared towards bmx.
Midland, ON – Pre-cast concrete park with PIP mini-bowl.  No flow or run up to concrete obstacles in middle of park.  Same issues as all modular parks. HS
Azilda, ON – Metal Q, bank and funbox on asphalt pad.  2012-05-26
Sudbury, ON – Great concrete park with bowl and street sections. Large with good flow and sections that can be sessioned.  NL Park 125.  2012-05-27.
Vaughan – Carville mill.  Stupidly designed concrete park.  Small stair sets with no way to ride back up. Obstacles too close together.  Two pointless steep banks.  Interesting mini-ramp configuration. (Who sk8s built)
Burlington, ON-Norton. Great New Line park with huge bowl/snake-run/ditch.  Nice advanced level obstacles like bank to hitching post rail and pyramid rail. NL
Burlington, ON- Mountainside park.  Introducing a new term – Slurry skatepark – A bunch of (random) pre-cast (concrete) obstacles does not make a park.  Low flat rail was only useable part from the steep bank, wedge, Chicago barrier and roller.
Toronto – Underpass park.  Pre-fab ramps and rails on concrete base.  Bonus – Stays dry in the rain.
Spott’s micro-mini – miniramp in the basement. 130!
Uxbridge, ON – Uxbridge Rotary Skatepark.  Gone is the old wood park, in with a spectrum winner. Concrete. Nice flowing concrete park with hefty hubbas.  Large bowl with extentions, a roller and steep bank. Also some fun stuff on the decks of the bowl. 131 (ssk8)
CBMK, Mississauga, ON – Indoor wood park with a 4 foot mini bowl, a street area with a hubba, step-up gap and moveable rails and ledges.  8 foot halfpipe with 10 foot extentions. Pipe is really mellow with big transitions and no vert. Sadly, CBMK is scheduled to close in 2013 after 9 years in operation.
The Ward, Guelph, ON.  Pretty large indoor park with 6 foot mini, 2 foot micro-mini thats tight, A good sized street section with everything inc. 3 and 6 stairs. Also a little practice section as well as a decent skateshop. 133
Sutton, ON – New Line concrete park. Rails, planter bench, stairs, quarters and banks.
King city, ON – 135!  Spectrum park with a deep pool, wedge, step-up, stair sets, different quarters, and over-vert pocket and a jersey barrier with a pipe.
Cannington, ON Huge park with a bunch of concrete bumps and table tops. Large tranny section and 2 run outs with enough for another park.  Pyramid, wedge, rails, ledges, step-up and quarters.
Cannington, ON Old park still exists. Some old ramps and a grind rail.
Gananoque, ON  Concrete park with street and bowl/tranny features. Lots of fake rock features work well in the park.
Kingston, ON  Grenadier skatespot.  Small concrete park with neat extention feature and Q-pipes.
Kingston, ON Polson skatepark. Small concrete park with a funbox and a mini.(140)
Kingston, ON Memorial DIY.  Rails, ledges and a bank to wall-ride set up at the Memorial Arena.
Burlington, ON  Palladium Park.   Terrible slurry park – 25’x25’ with jersey barrier, steep bank, block ledge and high rail. No run up or run out to anything. I’d say this is the worst park after Orillia but Burlington holds more horrors I fear.
Stouffville, ON – Old park  Parking lot pre-fab and a mini ramp.
Tottenham, ON – Aging skate-lite on custom metal fabricated 6’ mini, Bank and Train rail.
Beeton, ON – Good 4’ Metal mini.
Bradford, ON Metal pre-fab on asphalt. Full mini, q-pipe, spine, banks and wedge.  Curved barrier should have been sunk in concrete.
Aurora, ON – Concrete park with step-up, ledges, bank and Q-pipe. Bulit by concrete experts, not skatepark experts.  A few sunken gaps pose perils.
Oakville, ON  Iroquois Ridge Skate Park – Concrete modular on concrete base. Minimum.
Oakville, ON Glen Abby Skate Park -  See above but with a stupid jersey barrier.
Burlington, ON  Orchard Skate Spot – Outer banks with 3 stair, hubba and little launch in the middle. Ssk8.  # 150 
Oakville, ON – Shell Park.  Great old style (like Peterborough or Trenton done right) Thick pool coping on everything. 
Burlington, ON – Kiwanis Park.  New runner for worst park ever. Flat rail, kicker and rainbow rail on 25’ x 25’ concrete slab. More useable than palladium.
Burlington, ON – Brant Hills – Pre-fab concrete structure in PIP.  Still with the Jersey barriers!

Ajax, ON – ARC New concrete park @ Auldey Rec Center. Skatable AJAX Structure. Standard park stairs, hubbas, rails and step-up. Small but decent bowl. Transition to flat not perfect.  Nice large flat at one of park. #154 Spectrum Design.

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