Waterford, ON
Next to the Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum
159 Nichol St W.
The local Advocacy Group and Drop-in Skateparks are gonna hate me.
Let's Begin...after this.
'You Can Please 100% of Skatepark users 0% of the Time' - Spott
After many, many, many years of advocacy and fundraising, Waterford has a new skatepark! (June 2024)
I got to check out the park with my pal, Ryan - AKA the Skateboard Philosopher.
We both had a lot of fun but we question some of the design & construction choices made by Drop-in Skateparks.
Drop-in Is a Manitoba based skatepark design/build firm and this is their first project in Southern Ontario as far as I know. The design, with some large features including a rad jump box, caters to the local users, as a good skatepark should. There were a ton of other people today and they were all happy. There are a couple elements such as coping material, coping reveal and rail securement that Ryan and I questioned.
Let me be clear. This is a good skatepark but I wouldn't want it as my local.
However, a few tweaks would make it great.
(Yes, I am Very Picky. When you've been to 500+ parks, you can be. I just want quality parks for everyone)
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