University Place Skatepark — Attraction in University Place

I rode here recently on my 26" DJ bike.

Pros: Pretty large park where a good percentage of it is what you'd call "advanced" if that's what you're looking for. Deep bowls and some vert etc. Coping all over the place, which is great. Great street features and ledges, interesting banks etc. The street sections have super smooth, fast concrete. There are clearly some "newer" additions to the park that came after the main bowls, like the street section near the entrance and a sweet 45-degree hip quarter in the corner. Those features are all ace and ride very well. Shaded seating area for when you are chilling.

Cons: Most of the bowl has really weird transitions. The height is nice and the coping is nice, but the transition from flat bottom to the actual ramp is really abrupt and totally ruins the flow. Once you get up near the coping it's fine, but the bowl is nowhere near as fun as it appears in the photos. Lighting can be really bad with a huge wall and trees on one side of the park, especially on a really sunny day. The surface texture of the older bowls is rough and makes it difficult to do traction/sliding related maneuvers, and it looks like it would be awful to crash on.

Overall, the vision is there but the execution, particularly on the older parts of the park - is not. There aren't a ton of offerings around Tacoma so we'll see what some of the...

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