Lancaster County Skatepark - Lancaster, PA.

Full Pipe. Thats all I need to say. A quarter acre in the Williamson Area, the oldest area of the 544-acre, Central County Park. It includes a Snake Run of nearly two hundred feet in length; three oval bowls with depths of 4', 6' and 10' and with stainless steel, round coping; and a full pipe, sixteen feet in diameter and twenty-five feet long. This unique pipe, which is a marriage of half-inch-thick steel over shotcrete, is the only one of its kind in the United States. A meandering entrance path of some 600 feet and two curvi-linear, concrete benches may be skated as well. Design: This free-form, concrete structure was built in the Fall of 2000 following over two years of design and work with local skaters, the greater Lancaster design community, Lancaster County and City officials, and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (PA-DCNR), Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. (6/15/2006)I went to this park about a month ago. I was really looking forward to checking it out because it looked really sick in all the photos and it is the type of park I tend to like. In my opinion this thing is junk. It has got to be the most deceiving bullshit in the world. You look at it and ask yourself how can something so good looking be so bad? Well it is all in the transitions, none of them are the same. In the smaller (~6') of the two bowls with the full pipe in between the tranny would have any where from 0-6" of vert. I can not imagine that this was intentional due to the size of the bowl. You drop in with vert and you go up the other side and get thrown off with the lack of consistency. Seems ot me that they had the right intentions but then they messed it up by not having professional bowl builders come in and do it. A for effort and F for execution. If you happen to be within a 15 minute drive of it I would say go. Tops I would drive for it is 30-45 minutes and then I know I would be really disappointed when I got there. Please feel free to tell me I am full of shit if you think I am but I know I am not. - T.M.