HALP Skatepark, Queensville, East Gwillimbury

HALP Skatepark

Queensville 

East Gwillimbury, ON

It's very rare that I make a post on a park that's still under construction but this one's 'special'.  I'd heard rumblings about more terrain in East Gwillimbury over the past year.

Pretty sure this is just a concept skatepark. I haven't been able to find final design plans anywhere.

Then I saw a post from someone who's a skatepark builder.

June 8

Then, a month later, someone working for Canadian Ramp Company, posted a drone shot to their story of the build site. There's been some ground work and looks like the bowl has been excavated.

This was posted on July 11.

I went back and checked more stories and found out they had been on site since May 22, 2025.

I guess the good news is that there's no other CRC builds from earlier this year I'm going to find.

I was visiting a friend in East Gwillimbury this week so I had to check it out. There's a road that runs right next to the build so after dark, we went back for a lurk. 

We didn't explore the whole site but from what I saw, the bowl is excavated. 

Footings poured for a hubba and a ledge.  I also spotted a framed out 'Pier 7' Ledge.

So here comes some skater math.

West Shore Skate Spot was built in 6 weeks. On time and as promised.

This project is 6 weeks into to the build.

Let's say it's 3 time as large a project.  So allowing 18weeks for completion, it should be done by the last week of October.

CRC is Approximately at the same point WSSS was at 15 days in.

So if my skater math is correct, they're on track, even if I think that should be way further into the project.

Less rapping, more concrete!

Aug 20 update

SEPT 16th Lurk

On a day full of skating and advocacy, I lurked the build. IDK how close to finished they are but the coloured concrete looks nice.  HALP will have it's grand opening in October 17-19, 2025 with the outdoor stuff opening next year.  Interestingly, one of the crew (one of the IG posters) added me on IG that same day. No Communication yet but I welcome a conversation E-R. 

UPDATE

It's Nov 8th and the park is nearly done but

they're well late of my 'Skater Math' date of Halloween.

Gonna be a really cool transition to the pump track.

So they're late, but the outdoor amenities aren't due to open til spring so I can understand why they haven't poured the flats. It's hard to keep kids (me) off a completed park.

However, they don't have all the walls of the bowl poured so I say they're behind schedule.  That bowl looks like it's going to be gnarly with shallow end vert and pool coping.

With no apparent public consultations, it appears the park got a bowl only the designer wanted and with no other apparent transition in the park, it looks like we haven't learned from past skatepark design mistakes (see ABB).

PS - Fence was open.

aaaaaaand, I'm wrong.

So I guess I can barge?