15 of the Best Places to Skate
Best Places to Skate That aren’t Made for Skateboarding
Although skateboarding in a designated skate park can be fun, sometimes it’s more exciting to skate somewhere you’re not supposed to. Check out these cool (and mostly illegal) places to skate.
1. Abandoned Swimming Pools
This abandoned pool in Chichester, England was 25-meters long, and has a ramp that took it to a depth of over 12 meters. Unfortunately, it was recently demolished.
2. Skate Bowl Filled With Balloons
It took over three hours to blow up the almost 8000 balloons required to fill this skate bowl in Portland, Oregon.
3. Abandoned Water Parks
MTV’s Rob and Big recently stopped by an abandoned water park to show off their moves. Besides the fact that it would only take a slight slip or miscalculation to fall 50-feet to your death, water parks are a pretty sick place to skate.
4. Closed Roads
It’s a rare treat if you can find a skatable closed road, or get someone to close one down for you. Due to a complete road closure of Cheddar Gorge it was possible to achieve the downhill run from the video.
5. New York City
It’s the dream of many to skate the NYC streets. The lucky skaters who grew up in the city through the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s had free range of the big apple. Unfortunately, it’s now illegal to skate anywhere besides the few skate parks available. However, every summer there is a Go Skate Day held in NYC, during which hundreds of people skate at and between all of the skate parks in the city. If you want to skate the NYC streets, this is your best bet.
6. Treadmills
As long as the treadmill you’re using is at your house and not the gym, you won’t be breaking the law.
7. Old Metal Tubes
If you can’t skate around a tube, you can always let it roll around you.
8. Parking Garages
Parking garages are a great place to skate on a rainy day, especially if you are into slalom.
9. Trampolines
The trampoline is a great place to practice skate tricks. All you need is a trampoline and a skate deck and you are ready to go. If you’re interested, these are all the ticks landed (in order) in the above clip:
Cannonball, fs 360, bsheelflip, double heelflip, varialheelflip, switch kickflip, fsbigspin, switch kickflip, 360 flip, fsbigspinheelflip, fingerflip, bsheelflip, inward heelflip, fingerflip, varialheelflip, 360 heelflip, double heelflip, heelflipindy, switch kickfliptailgrab, fsbigspinheelflip, bsbigspinheelflip, bsbigspinkickflip, madonna, switch kickflip, heelflip, heelflipindy, bs 360, fs 360, bs 360 ollie north, sal flip, hardflip, fskickflip, 360 flip, judo, madonna, bsbigspinheelflip, varialkickflip, varialheelflip, 360 flip, hand slap flip(?), switch kickflip, switch heelflip, heelflip, kickflip, kickflip pretzel foot landing, pretzel footed heelflip sex change, bsheelflip, varialheelflip, switch kickfliptailgrab, bsbigspinkickflip, roastbeef.
10. The Grand Canyon
Please, only skate off a Grand Canon cliff if you are as well versed at base-jumping as the guy in this video.
11. Storm Drains
Setting aside the dangers of sudden flooding, getting lost, or getting dumped out off a huge drop, this looks surprisingly fun.
12. Down a Mountain
Alright, so this one isn’t on a Skateboard, but it could be theoretically. Either way, I couldn’t leave this one out.
13. Highway Guard Rails
Not a whole lot of room for error, but sometimes the best places carry the greatest risk.
14. Children’s Slides
You can find them most anywhere. Children’s slides can be slippery, so watch out, most people fail miserably their first couple of times down.
15. Alpine Slides
If you have never been on an alpine slide, they are basically concrete slides that run down the side of a mountain (usually at a ski resort). They can be very dangerous, and you can get going too fast easily. I imagine skating one of these would border on insanity.
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