Reviews written by Jeff Greenwood

TOns of stuff to ride.

There's a little street and a little tranny.

This place is a good place to ride period.

This place is never the same as it is continually expanding and improving. Help out, donate so $$$ shovel some crete on a work day. Keep it clean.

Go check it out bowl riders!!!

I'd recommend it for street rippers.

Its an average concrete park without anything to good. Would I go out of my way to skate it? No.

This is a great park destination for tranny riders. Stay a couple of days and enjoy the camping and skating.

It's really small

Skatelab is one of the best ever. Go check out the Museum and Hall of Fame!

What's there?

Lots of concrete that packed in super tight.This park is pretty lame. Too much stuff in too small a space, making it very difficult to use anything the way it's supposed to be used. The bowl is about 2 feet deep and another worthless example of some one who doesn't skate thinking this would be cool. Locals to the surrounding area say the cops that patrol San Dimas are the worst in the business citing anyone and everyone for not wearing pads. Fuck Them!

Free, Concrete, Outdoors and just a little over 12,000 square feet. I think this park is pretty good in most areas. Good Trannies, good coping, good street ledges and rails. The street 'bowl' area has a few design flaws. There's a 20' long piece of quarter pipe you can't use because the ledge runs straight across it at the bottom, there is another WALL about that long on the opposite side, and lastly the pyramid is barely noticeable it's so flat! There is a great 10 stair handrail and ledge though. The bowl is pretty good and spines into the street course, although the waterfall could have been a lot better.

4/24/09

This park is sick! You definitely want to check this one out.

The bowls, they are vert. The round bowl is about 9 1/2 ft kinda small but easy to ride. Theres not really any flat so the lip radius is tight. It is like the Skatelab bowl with another foot of height.

The square is probably 10 1/2 ft maybe 11. More vert and some flat so it can be half piped, but most use it to return through the pipe. NO one checks to see if anyone is dropping in from down there at the other end of the bowl.

There is a ton of street stuff. Ledges, stairs, planters, banks, manual pads, etc.

There a also 2 snake/ditch runs. They are pretty fun too. I have not hit them much because they have been too crowded.

This is a must ride park.

Santa Barbara Skatepark is a fairly typical landscape architect designed park. There is nothing that sets this place apart from most other parks except the amount of ledges. They are everywhere. The bowl gets almost 6 feet deep and has good coping and transitions. (At least they've gotten better at that) The pyramid in the middle is real good. All in all it's a fun park but only covers the beginners to intermediate riders needs.

J. Greenwood

It'll keep you entertained for a little while. It's getting older and rougher and there are better parks to find. But if you want to stretch your legs out. Give it a ride.

This is a fun and flowy park. It's mostly got tranny stuff, but it's linked together with hips and slants and a few other things. Check it out if you have time while your on your Oregon Skatepark Tour.

You're at the wrong park if you show up here! This park totally sucked! The slants were only two feet high but those were o.k. The worst thing was the asphalt between the obstacles. What a nightmare, Chunky as barf after a can of Denti Moore Beef Stew. Don't even bother.

1998 review- Whiterock skatepark has been around a looooong time! It received a modernization around 97 or 98 and became a premiere skatepark. The Snakerun is phenomenally smooth and fast although a little tilted downhill. It can be worked though as proof in the photos.

The ledges, banks, and railing that were added in the second phase are top notch. A real fun kinked square rail you've seen a many videos is not to be missed. If you're in the Seattle - Vancouver B.c. area this park is not to be passed up on.

- J.Greenwood

3rd Lair Skatepark is definitely a top notch skatepark and one of the funnest parks in Minnesota. Being indoors is real nice for the cold Minnesota winters. The park has a great street course with lots of ledges and rails. It's all masonite and good fun.

The bowl is about 8 feet deep in the deep end and 4 feet in the shallow with metal coping the whole way around. It's not a vert bowl but the two subtle hips between deep and shallow are totally workable.

In a separate room of the main room, there's a nice little miniramp. I think there's some portable stuff out in the parking lot too. There's also a stocked pro shop a few video games, and friendly staff to help you out if you need anything. This skatepark was previously located in Minneapolis before moving to this converted hockey rink in Golden Valley,

J. Greenwood

Its really smooth concrete. Real fun. Watch for intermittent closures though.