This is not a very good skate park.
208 North 2050 West, Provo Utah. Get off at the Center Street exit in Provo and head West. It’s in a park that is roughly on the corner of Center Street and Geneva Road. If you take a right on Geneva you’ll see it on your right-hand (east) side.
The Provo skatepark is one of the worst built skateparks in the state. This might have something to do with it being one of the first skateparks in the state. I heard a rumor that it cost something like $60K to build, and then they had totally done it wrong so they had to put $20K more into it to fix it. I’m not sure whether this is rumor is based in fact though, because the skatepark doesn’t appear to ever have been “fixed”.
The park is generally lumpy. There’s a sort of pyramid with hips, but the sides are so steep it’s basically unskateable.
There is a big round rail that isn’t so bad, but then again, isn’t that good either.
The edges of everything are too rounded.
In my opinion the funnest thing to do in the park is to launch out of one of the banks. But it’s hard to get speed so you can’t get a very good setup if you push enough, and if you don’t push enough you barely make it to the top.
If you live in Provo, at least you have something, even if it was a waste of money. If you don’t live in Provo, don’t bother visiting this park. If they had poured a flat area of concrete and built a few ledges it would have been a much, much better place to skate.
i live in provo and my favorite thing to do here is ollie out of the bowl over the rail but yeah copeing sucks and the park is generally crap but u can have hours of fun if u use it right
Better than skate this thing is go to The Center in Provo (http://www.provo.org/the_center.main.html) , where you can skate prefab–but decent–ramps and obstacles for $3.
And I don’t know what it is, but the vibe of the kids at The Center is just cool. It made me want to donate a bunch of decks to them, as some of those guys were skating on tails worn to the truck bolts.
I Agree with both of these guys the skate park is a pile of crap and it was really stupidly designed for size and Quality. If you are going to go any where, then go to orem skate park(off the freeway) or to the teen center (in provo). Someone needs to tell someone like Rob Dyrdek or someone with money about this crappy skatepark in provo and MAYBE JUST MAYBE we can get a sweet skatepark that isn’t a pile of crap.
Thanks 4 Reading,
Justin