Louisville Extreme Park
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Skatepark
A skatepark is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, aggressive inline skating and scooters. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, quarter pipes, spine transfers, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, pyramids, banked ramps, full pipes, pools, bowls, snake runs stairsets,...
located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
. It opened on April 5, 2002, and gained national recognition after the release of Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk
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's Secret Skatepark Tour, in which the park was featured. The park is open from 6 A.M. to 11 P.M everyday, and is designed with a input local taskforce. The public skatepark is owned by Louisville Metro Government and operated by Metro Parks. The park sits in the path of the future redesigned Kennedy Interchange and may have to be torn down.
Park features
The park is most often known for 24 feet (7.3 m) full pipe, but it also has an impressive set of other features including, two 11 feet (3.4 m) bowls, two 8 feet (2.4 m) bowls, two 4 feet (1.2 m) bowls, a 6 feet (1.8 m) bowl, a few fun boxes, a street course, a 6 feet (1.8 m) flat bank, several ledges, rails, and endless lines. Hardcore Skateparks was responsible for all the shotcrete and concrete work on the skatepark. It also has a 12 feet (3.7 m) wooden vert ramp with 13 feet (4 m) extension. There are also publicly accessible restrooms and vending machineVending machine
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s as well as emergency telephones.
See also
External links
- Louisville Extreme Park Official Site
- Additional Information
- Hardcore Skateparks Official Site
- Aerial view of park from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps