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North Island
Abbots Way Mini Ramp
The sister ramp to Greylynn, actually more like big brother. Bigger Trannies mean bigger air.
Avalon Skatepark
Pretty basic park but works quite well. Try not to knock over too many kids on scooters, just enough of them to teach their parents not to bring them back.
Birkenhead Skatepark
Fun little parks with a ton of random shit everywhere. The mini ramps are a little tight and the layout of the place can leave you guessing at lines but all in all its pretty fun and everything but the mini's are very skateable.
Brownsbay Mini Ramp
Two ramps for the price of one, but as with most ramps that have two levels, the vert is a little fast and the mini is real slow.
Cambridge Skatepark
Mean, check out the curved ledge.
Chafers Skatepark
An unused patch of concrete right in the middle of town that skaters have made their own. It's permanent features are a huge Quarter pipe, a crazy pyramid, an over used concrete grinder, a metal rail and the hardest, fastest mini I have ever seen. Everything else just seems to come and go in various states of disrepair.
Devonport Skatepark
Great looking park with unlimited lines. Plenty of hips, gaps and transfers to push yourself and keep looking for more.
Forrest Skatepark
I don’t know if you can call it a park, it is more like a street spot on the side of the road. However if you are into ledges it is pretty sweet. The only problem is that once you get to the bottom you have to walk back up. The pictures say it all. Ledges and hand rails. The most unique obstacle is the pole jam at the bottom. Pretty much worth going there just to skate that!
Gisborne Skatepark
Small mini with multiple spines and roll-through's leads onto a huge court scattered with benches and homemade grinders. Up the back is a fun kidney bowl, maybe a touch shallow, and the leftovers off all the concrete shaped into some sort of abstract shape.
Glendowie Skatepark
It is a pretty simple park made by Tom Smithers skateparks. Trannys are sweet, and both funboxes are fully skateable. Also has good drainage.(only takes a couple hours to fully dry) Good place for a late Sunday skate with a few cold ones.
Greylynn Mini Ramp
The mighty Greylynn mini. This baby blue wonder is legendary, and it should be. It's easily one of the best public mini ramps in New Zealand.
Hamilton Skatepark
Dope park, try to skate here every time you pass through. Hips, ledges, pyramid and according to Cardiel, best bowl in the country.
Havelock North Bowl
Great little old bowl with a big hip in the middle of it that just begs to be ollied.
Hawera Skatepark
Im sure there are some better lines in the mounds than the ones we found and the mini's are also of an interesting shape. Not hard to have fun here but you will need some imagination. Since this photo there has been additions to the street section.
Huia Mini Ramp
I thought this mini ramp was meant to be a replica of Greylynn, but it aint. Not even close. Small and tight but still very skateable.
Inglewood Mini Ramp
Fun little five foot mini with some super dodgy coping. Crazy concrete and brick street area for some jibbing practice.
Island Bay Skatepark
Nice park extension to the existing mini ramp. Some of the banks are a little steep but there are some fun lines and a good grinder. Great for those windy days as it is pretty sheltered
Karori Mini Ramp
Very mellow three foot mini with block extension. Good to learn on and try new tricks.
Khandallah Mini Ramp
One of the better mini's in Wellington. The Trannies seem a little mellow but that just may be a little too much flat bottom. Good to go but beware the evil moat of doom.
Levin Skatepark
Practically flawless apart from a pretty outrageous Kinker thingy.
Lincoln Road Skatepark
Newer park with lots of good hips and fun lines. The bowl section never really gets steep enough to grind the coping but otherwise still a fun park with good flow.
Lynnfield Bowl
Older park, the lefthand side starts in a tight snake run that leads into a decent 5 foot bowl. The Hourglass bowl has 5 and 6 foot sections joined by two hips. This bowl has crazy pool style transitions with mad vert. If you ever wanted to skate a backyard pool this could be as close as you get.
Manukau Skatepark
Cool park with a great layout. They did screw up some of the trannies but the multitude of good obstacles will keep you happy for days.
Morrinsville Bowl
Old pool style bowl. A challenge to skate, not because of bad transitions, but due to no flat bottom and vert walls.
Mount Maunganui Skatepark
As you can tell it was raining so I didn't skate for very long. Looks good though.
Mount Maunganui Vert Ramp
Great vert ramp, nice and wide, good trannies, channel and its well maintained by the council. What more could you ask for.
Napier Skatepark
Basically two bowls with the larger one forming most of the street course. Bowl to bowl gaps, handrail, rubbish bin, and much more. Unfortunately the lack of surrounding concrete lets down the design by making runs ups and run outs almost impossible for some lines.
New Plymouth Skatepark
Huge street style park with soo many features that it's hard to do it justice with just a few photos and some words. Very open, very good, adjustable handrails and everything had a metal edge. What more can I say.
Newlands Skatepark
Umm, yeah.
Newlynn Bowl
The concrete here is so old that its almost extinct. Some complete tripper must have designed this but that doesn't mean that its not skateable. I'm sure there is a line through the snake run and the lower bowl has its merits. Definitly worth the challenge.
Ngatea Skatepark
Sweet little concrete pad with some skateable wood on it.
Ohakune Mini Ramp
Good five foot mini, was a little kinked at first but that has kinda worn in now.
Ohakura Mini Ramp
Fun little mini ramp. shit everything about this place is mini. Mini coping, mini ramp, mini park. Have you seen the park? Like WTF. Crazy little mini park where everything is built for toddlers or smurfs. Hence all the prams and training wheels. Has a kindergarten feel to it and would work better as a drain or sandpit than a skatepark.
Onehunga Vert Ramp
Well looked after vert ramp (one of the few in NZ). Its been recently widened by a couple of sheets of ply which is what most ramps in this country need. Eleven foot high with one foot of vert.
Opunake Skatepark
I did have a photo of the bowl here as well but its gone so here is photo of the tin, skinny vert ramp.
Paeroa Skatepark
Dope park, simple but well thought out. Other councils take note, this is all good.
Pakaranga Skatepark
Pretty basic park, probably not all that much thought gone into it. Fun little taco thing at one end but the best feature was the 'Skatepark' sign. Of course the council saw that people were having too much fun so they blocked off the run in.
Panmure Skatepark
Pretty simple park. Unfortunately no tranny\'s however heaps of ledges and a couple rails for all the tech heads. Fun box pretty good but not much landing roll-away space. Two pretty good hips in each corner are probably the highlights for me. Also has a unique bank gap to ledge which is pretty different. Park is kind of ruined buy to many stairs which kill the flow.
Papamoa Skatepark
Pretty basic park but they still managed to screw up parts of it. Lots of wide open space though.
Papatoetoe Skatepark
Two shallow bowls joined by a mellow spine/hip. One of the bowls has a little coping round the deep end.
Paraparaumu Skatepark
Recently revamped with all the old wooden structures gone. Good open layout with a lot of fun lines. All the features are pretty mellow and some of the coping is a little sunken, but nothing to complain about. Pity about the old mini ramp being taken but its an overall improvement. Get there early to avoid the crowds or late to avoid the heat.
Parrs Park Mini Ramp
Old wooden 6 foot mini with 1 foot extensions. Very skateable.
Pauanui Skatepark
Sick park although not to much in the way of street obstacles. Has great flow, plenty of lines and a good mix of banks and trannies.
Porirua Skatepark
Super good park with one of the best kidney bowls I have skated. Some of the boxes around the outside of the park are a little hard to get to but the hips in the middle more than make up for it. Definitely worth checking out.
Putaruru Bowl
Super fun older bowl. Five foot section flows into a seven foot section with hips and vert extension. The trannies are all good, especially for being over 20 years old. Worth the stop.
Rotorua Skatepark
Plenty of features here to keep you busy but beware the shiny slippery silver surfaces.
Stanmore Bay Skatepark
The park is pretty simple. The coping on the bowl is a bit strange but everything else is sweet. Pyramid is pretty fun and a bit different with the smaller one on the side.
Stokes Valley Mini Ramp
Still my favorite ramp in Wellington, similar to Khandallah but without the slow motion feeling and extensions on both sides.
Taradale Skatepark
Crazy older skatepark with heaps of crazy banks and transitions. Super fun and real challenging. There is also a big vert ramp there which I am sitting on.
Taupo Skatepark
Sick, very sick. Go and skate it.
Te Atatu Skatepark
Cool little street setup with some good ledges including a curved one."
Te Ngae Skatepark
Drop in, ollie, grind. simple
Te Puke Skatepark
Some good ledges and a rail, the whole thing flows pretty well too.
Thames Skatepark
Stoked.
Tokoroa Skatepark
Sweet setup. Very skateable and close to the supermarket for that cheap drink.
Tole Reserve Bowl
Downhill snakerun leading into two separate shallow bowls. Kinda stupid but people were on a lot of drugs back then. Some fun, and LARGE grass gaps to be had.
Upland Rd Bowl
Shallow dish leading into a snakerun that leads into a very kinked five foot bowl.
Upper Hutt Skatepark
Damn this place is sick. Plenty to do with lots of banks, rails, ledges, stairs, gaps, hips and the bowl. It's probably a good thing that its all the way out in Upper Hutt, else it would be forever crowded.
Victoria Skatepark
As good as it looks with a good variety of features and everything being very skateable. As it has been built over some old tennis courts the ground surface can be a bit rough, tearing you apart at speed, which is what you will need if you want to clear some of the features. But hey, you arent afraid of a little blood are ya? Oh, there is also a new mini since this photo was taken.
Waihi Skatepark
Small funbox and ledge added to the main feature of the old bowl. I'm all about the bowl, scares the shit outta me everytime.
Waitangi Skatepark
Half park/half sculpture Waitangi skatepark in Wellington is a great improvement to the old chafers park that used to be there. It boasts one of the best bowls in New Zealand and has a 2-3 lane street course that lets you grind the planters, jib the rocks, weave through basket-ballers and whatever else you can fit in while trying to avoid the lure of the bowl. Not an easy task.
Wanganui Skatepark
Mellow four foot spine ramp opens out into a large park with banks, bowls, hips and stairs. I hope they have fixed the fun box since I was last there, as you can see it sits 20mm off the ground.
Whakatane Skatepark
Damn good park with a great flow to it. Friendly locals too. Definitely worth the drive if you arent lucky enough to already live there. Oh, it's sign posted as well. Nice.
Whangamata Skatepark
Compact but well thought out addition to the old bowl. Everything skates pretty well and a good variety of features will keep you happy on those flat days.
Whangarei Skatepark
Well built park with good open layout and flow.
Whangarei Bowl
Super fun lines to be had everywhere. Push once and pump for hours.
Whitianga Skatepark
A few random wooden structures added to the permanent concrete features. Nothing really stands out but skaters are meant to be creative, right?
South Island
