Grayslake Daniel Barry Skate Park — Attraction in Grayslake

It's extremely easy to see the misappropriation of tax dollars here. Instead of employing a city cop to hide in the bushes to bust any bmxer who tries to ride with a ticket.... (No joke, this just happened to me and my son as we pulled up) the city would be better served to just lay off the one with nothing better to do and use his obviously unnecessary salary to pay for upkeep and park wear and tear that is just often falsely considered worse when bikes are allowed to ride them.

This experience of mine today begins my boycott of spending any money at all in Grayslake period until the city pulls their head out of their bum and allows bikes to ride this skatepark. Any self respecting bmxer/biker would do the same. It's asinine to even create a skatepark that seeks to prevent bikes from riding. The hate on bikes is not warranted. It's just hate for hates sake. I'm just gonna avoid the whole town like the...

This park has some serious potential; the half pipes, quarter pipes and launch ramps have really nice transitions. There's a huge wall of transition that allows you to drop into the half pipe.

I'd give it a 4.5 easily; it's a good size and there are QPs and banks everywhere... but the ramps have been a bit neglected. A couple of the 4x8 sheets on the half pipes either have holes or big dents, and there's weather damage in other areas.

I just returned to skateboarding after a couple decades off, so I'm really not sure how busy this park gets. I will update my review with pictures including some of the damage.

That said. I would like to offer my services for free, if the township would be willing to pick up some of the tab for the materials, I'd be happy to repair the ramps no charge. It's a beautiful Park and I'd like to contribute to its upkeep especially if I'm going to...

I just learned how to balance on a 🛹 today and it was fantastic. The park looks great. It has 2 small cliffs, about 3 medium ones, and a couple tall quarters too. Also, the best part is that there's a lot of space to practice and do what you want. I found other parks to be cramped and ramped, but this one is totally delishous, not fictitious. It's the most legit park that I've been too so far. By legit, I mean I see all types of people learning and doing...