South Gate Skatepark - South Gate, California, U.S.A.

I just wanted to give you guys the heads up on the new Southgate park which opened up around the first of April. Built by the mediocre skatepark designers (Purkiss Rose), this park actually has some promise. The street section is burly. The handrails are long and high so you won't be trying those for the first time. The stair case in the middle is about a 6 - 7 ft clear. The bowl section is really fun and you can put some good lines together. This park actually flows way more than the other parks in the area. The boob shaped objects are designed perfectly for cracking ollies over 'em and doing slides over the top. Also the tranny gets steep enough to lock into smith grinds etc. If you're coming from LA its one of the better nearby parks. The only major complaint about the bowl area is that everything is really close together so as soon as you come off of one wall then you're into something else. If I had to rate it I'd give it 6 (a Dreamland park being a 10; an Army Core of Engineers' park being a 1).