Laurelhurst Skate Park — Attraction in Portland

Terrible skatepark. Should be called a bike park honestly. These wooden little tracks are not skateable due to the huge gaps in between the slats unless you have giant soft wheels, which 99 percent of modern street skaters do not use. All you would need to do to make this place popular would be to make the crusty road it's on smooth with concrete, add some ledges, a manual pad and that's about it. Most people don't/can't skate seep transition ramps, especially slippery ones like this here. would be so great to have a low-entry level, less transition focused and low impact park to get the neighborhood enjoying and...

NIMBY...This is what yuppies do to get rid of homeless people in portland. It's disgusting.

That said, I more upset that PPR closed the VERY active historic dance studio that was fully utilized. They could have added angle parking and granted more space for actual park users.

Wealthy neighbors also got city to ban parking in front of their homes. For the city to say they can't support the dance studio and then turn around and spend a millions on a project to cover the road and reduce use of the...

The wood tracks aren't skateable, unless you're riding something with massive wheels because of the gaps in the wood. The miniramp is too slick to skate because of the paint. The only redeeming quality is the pump track, be...