St George Utah Skate Park

St. George Utah used to be a tiny town in the middle of the desert that you would pass through if you were travelling between Salt Lake City Utah and Los Angeles. It’s about two hours north of Las Vegas, and 4-5 hours south of SLC. Today, St. George is one of the fastest growing cities in the US, mostly due to a huge influx of retirees who don’t mind the 120 degree summers. But as the retirees move in this provides a lot of money so all sorts of other businesses are springing up and now St. George and surrounding cities are getting fairly large. Large enough to have a public skatepark, anyway.

This park was pretty much as good as it gets when it was built, but now there are better parks so I can complain about this one. But not all that much, it’s really a pretty good park.

The good: It’s big

The bad: Bikers and lots of little kids on Razor scooters

The ugly: Slick and no room to push

What the builders of this park got right that a lot of other parks mess up on is the metal. The metal everywhere is made of the right stuff. It’s not so soft that you stick on it, and the edges on ledges are rounded so they’re not sharp, but not too rounded. Just a tiny bit.

The layout is decent and if it weren’t for so many kids you could really have a good time. Even the big bowl is pretty fun.

The biggest problem this park has is that the coating put on the concrete is super slick, so much so that it’s hard to push, and if you land tricks just a little bit off you slip out. Since many of the obstacles don’t give you a lot of pushing room this creates a problem because you’re trying to push and your foot is just slipping.

The park is easy to spot from the freeway as you’re going through town, but a little tricky to get to because you have to come from a back street and then go through a large parking lot. Sorry, I don’t have very good directions, except that you drive east past the high school, turn south on the street just after it, drive down to the last or almost last street on your right, drive into a parking lot by some fields, and then you skate about 200 feet on an asphalt path through a field to get to it. You can figure it out. If not, go check out Concrete Disciples’ directions to the St. George skate park.