Location2900 Pennsylvania AvenueCouncil District4 |
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Park DistrictCentral |
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Opened in 2006 as a 10,000 square foot skate park that sits on the west side of Penn Valley Park, Penn Valley Skate Park features include a square shallow end with metal coping, “clamshell” mid section with tile and pool coping. There is a euro gap, eight stair with handrail and ledges on both sides, big dirt gap with a small one next to it, a big four stair with a rail, picnic table, a hip, a 10′ deep huge bowl.
The skate park was expanded in 2012 as a Safe Spot, Skate Spot with the support of the Rob Dyrdek Foundation. Designed by California Skateparks, a world-renowned skate park design firm, the revamped skate park features an additional 7,000 square feet that integrates tendonated elements from the 2011 Street League Skateboarding contest course into the preexisting skate park. The park also features new cantilever capped ledges, stairs, banks, quarterpipes and a fresh coat of paint bringing new life into the old elements of the original park.
The skate park is lighted.
1. The park is to be used for skateboarding and in-line skating only.
2. Protective equipment must be used at all times.
3. No skating when wet or rainy.
4. The park is drug-free recreation area.
5. Competitive or demonstration events require a permit. Complete an Event Request Form.
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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