Fairmont Skatepark in Salt Lake City Utah Near Sugarhouse

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I had the opportunity to skate the park last Saturday, and it wasn’t all that bad.

The park was a little crowded, but that’s a given on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

Rather than talking about what the park has and doesn’t have, I’ve come up with a rating system to make it easy for you to tell whether this is a park that’s worth going to skate or not. Here’s how it works:

Bad - Don’t go.
Good - Go.

If you don’t get it at first you’ll catch on with time.

This park is pretty good. I wish the hip had been built with a sharp corner rather than a rounded one–I see almost no purpose for rounded corners on hips. The other problem with the hip is that no matter how fast I tried to go I couldn’t hit it with a lot of speed. Enough speed to get over it comfortably, yes, but I had to work pretty hard to get the speed.

There’s a big bowl there that’s pretty hairy, but fun, and I was surprised how many people skated it while I was there. Just the same, I think it would have been better to have had less bowls (bowls take up half of the park) and more street stuff.

There was a kid who arrived on the scene who rode that bowl as well as the street course like a champ. The bowl must be about 10 feet deep and this kid was carving it, doing 50-50s, and backside disasters in the deep end. The kid can’t have been more than 15-16 years old. It’s nice to see someone that young with those kinds of skills.