Wall Street Journal says Winnipeg skate park rules
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This article was published 06/08/2009 (6227 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG – The accolades just keep on rolling in for the Plaza skateboarding park at The Forks.
The Wall Street Journal has included it as one of America’s best, recently running down the top 14 parks in a story.
Winnipeg’s is the only Canadian site on the list.
In 2007, just a year after it opened, skateboarding icon Tony Hawk included Winnipeg’s Plaza at The Forks in his new Secret Skatepark Tour 3 DVD. Hawk said the park was “everything it’s cracked up to be” when he visited Winnipeg and described the bowl as “super fun” in the DVD’s video.
The $2.5 million project earned Wall Street Journal props for including more than just ramps. The story said that Winnipeg’s park offers replicas of ledges, rails and planter boxes, many of the objects found on private property that skaters prefer to ride on.
Top park on the WSJ’s list was in Portland, Ore.