Kona Skate Park — Attraction in Jacksonville

Of course Kona is one of the oldest and most iconic skateparks in the U.S. and Jax is lucky to have it! The place is great, Skate, Scoot, Blades, Bikes... They allow it all at a fair price!

Feels a little dated, the concrete/snake area is awesome and iconic but I really, really wish they would make better use of the huge pad they have though.. Its looking kind of barren lately, maybe they have plans already though. Who knows..

The mini ramp/spine is awesome... the new bowl is awesome looking... But besides that its like scattered rails/ledges and a pyramid.... Even though they don't allow bikes in the new bowl which kind of sucks, maybe only ban bikes that have pegs or make it plastic pegs / pedals only and require bikes to have bar ends?! Idunno, skateboard axles even chip away at concrete.

They should really start a go fund me or something similar(id be happy to donate a 20 or more if they promised some progress and allowed bikes on the new stuff lol..) to help bring the park up to date! It just feels like their is so much unused space and so little stuff to ride in what i consider the actual skatepark, they could easily add a handful of ramps. Maybe even a nice asphalt pump track and dirt jumps in that huge grass area they have!

Anyways its a great place to ride/skate/scoot! The staff is always helpful and smiling. I just wish they would invest a bit more into it and make it the action sports park it could be. If they did I would go a...

Within the narrow cosmos of skateboarding, certain grounds shimmer with the aura of pilgrimage. They call to us not as parks or structures, but as visions — places where urethane and soul converge. For golfers, there are manicured temples like Pebble Beach. For us, there is Kona in Jacksonville, Florida. The snake run is not merely concrete; it is a river of memory and momentum, an artery cut into the earth where generations have carved, flown, and dissolved into motion.

On my most recent passage through Kona, I found the snake run renewed — polished, yet still haunted by its origins. I dropped in, and as I carved, ducks drifted along the stream at the edge of the property, oblivious to the clatter of wheels and wood. A small, absurd harmony between chaos and serenity. That image lingered like a stanza half-written: skate culture and nature colliding, coexisting, echoing one another.

Kona is no museum; it is a fever still burning. Its truth lies not in logos or brands clawing for authenticity, but in the sweat and vision of its builders, in the devotion of the faithful who keep it alive. To Mr. Ramos and the community that guards this sanctuary, gratitude is too small a word. Kona proves that in an age of surfaces and simulations, the real still breathes, the real still glows, the real still carves new lines into this...

The oldest skatepark in the world. It was built in 1977. This has been at the top of my skatepark bucket list since I first played the Kona level on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 almost 20 years ago.

I have literally flown 5 hours to Jacksonville, Florida solely to skate this hallowed, crusty ground. I was shocked how big and steep all the old snakeruns and bowls are. I had to tighten my trucks after the first snakerun bomb to stop getting speed wobbles.

I skated Kona for 3 hours and didn't pop my tail once. It made me appreciate just riding my skateboard without the need to try tricks over and over again. I must have done the snakerun at least 20 times.

The vert ramp, mini ramp and street section are a little worse for wear- technically speaking there's a lot more better skateparks as far as features and obstacles are concerned, but you don't come to Kona to skate a ledge or some stairs. You come here for the history and grandeur of that ancient concrete...

The pilgrimage to Kona is one that every self respecting skatepark hunter needs to make. I'd place it in the top 5 most historically important skateparks in the world. But if you take a step back and look at it for what is, it's just a load of slopes and ramps that are fun to skate down. Here's to another 45 years!

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