Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dylan Shanahan, Treasurer of National DIY Skatepark Inc., hits ollie off a bank. Taken in Milwaukee Friday, June 21, 2024. A group ...

As skateboarders, when we think of what a skatepark is, a number of things can come to mind. Perhaps it’s a giant concrete paradise in the middle of nowhere, fully equipped with every obstacle ...

More than 30 years ago, a group of Portlanders created their own skatepark without any permission under the Burnside Bridge. The Burnside Skatepark is credited as the first do-it-yourself, or DIY, ...

Mark Hanley, rocking a grease-stained button down that suggests an adeptness with power tools, is gripping the handle of drill. He points out patches of poison ivy lurking along the fence near a ...

Some call the site an eyesore, but to Harford County skateboarding community members, “Ledgewood” is their paradise. It’s a grassroots skatepark in Edgewood built on the deteriorating pink-and-green ...

When there isn’t snow on the ground, 36-year-old Gordon Hendrick grinds rails and kickflips his way through a defunct tennis court on the Mohawk Riverbank that has been converted into a skatepark.

A group of Milwaukee skateboarders didn't ask for permission when they opened a skate park beneath Interstate 94 in the Walker's Point neighborhood four years ago. Known as National DIY Skatepark, it ...