Ben Root Skatepark — Attraction in Anacortes

The redesigned skate park is great! The pump track is awesome and a great place for kids to learn to ride bikes and scooters, and the bowl and pipe are advanced enough to be challenging. Locals are often nice, even supportive of the little ones, as long as you're mindful of your surroundings - great way to teach the kids (and some adults) about spacial awareness. Tommy Thompson trail is right next to it for a change of pace and passes by a restroom and some parking across the roundabout. We often kill an afternoon or evening...

We took the grandkids over on a Sunday afternoon. They were on rollerblades while some of the others were there with scooters and skate boards. When we left there were a couple of trick bikes. The kids loved the park. It has a fairly deep bowl, several ramps, rails and flats around the outside. Also places to sit and watch. Good...

Beautiful place to visit and take the kids out to go skating/biking/roller-blading and spectating others and wa ttc hing the skills that our communities got Rollin on. There's a bathroom across the way for when you gotta release what you haven't @ sweated out yet. Roll on thru and check how you can drop into the...