We Love Mud!
We are a young energetic group of people that loves to create fun and highly functional skateboarding facilities that encourage a family atmosphere. We've found that when you have a skate park that is fun and challenging for skaters of all skill levels it provides not only a safe place for kids to skate but also encourages involvement from parents. Our goal is to create skate parks where beginners can excel at their own pace while also learning from more advanced skaters. Generally this allows the older skaters to mentor the younger skaters in skill, etiquette and taking pride in their local park. Building a facility that's challenging is important because it allows growth and improvement of not only the beginning skateboarders but advanced skaters as well. Skateboarders like to travel to check out new skate parks and if there is a reason for them to return, they will, bringing revenue to the local community by staying in local motels or campgrounds, eating in local restaurants and shopping in local stores.
Ultimately, we do this for the kids and so we focus on building facilities that they can continuously grow with, not grow out of. Let's help keep our youth active. :o)
Zac laying some Tedder Stone on the Gold Beach pool.
Darcy D working on the frog sculpture.
Zac, Darcy & Jesse McDowell finishing the cradle in Gold Beach, OR.
Zac McKenzie, Darcy Delgado, Trevor Stanton & Dan Johnson ~ Gold Beach, OR.
In the News
Have you seen our kids skate?
Curry County Reporter
Published: February 11, 2010
On a couple of occasions I've seen something going on at the skate park. I stopped to watch and was amazed at the talent of some of our kids.
I stopped in at a few skate parks in Talent and Medford because I wanted to see what the kids were doing. I've never seen anything like we have here. We have a radical park and it's only half finished.
It reminds me of the old surfer days. When I was 17 I went to Nebraska with a friend; when I came back I found my little brother at the beach with his surfer friends. One of his friends, Phil, loaned me his board and I was hooked. Everybody seemed to get along; it was good clean fun.
I watched at our skate park for a half hour or so and saw how everybody (‘the kids') encouraged each other, took turns; and the kids were very polite to each other.
I looked in from time to time as they were building the park and was surprised to see a couple young ladies on the crew. The whole crew looked to be in their 20s; two guys, and two girls. When I saw one of the girls finishing the concrete one day "that's hard work" I asked do you skate? Yup, she said. I thought so, the whole creation looks like something done by someone who knows and loves the sport. I don't know who found them but I think they found the best.
After all the years it took to get this skate park going, I'm excited and happy to see what we have.
Steve Corey
Gold Beach
References
Port Orford Skate Park Additions
Port Orford, OR - 2008/2009
Contact: Patti McKenzie, Port Orford Skate Park Committee
Phone: 541-332-1002
Coos Bay Skate Park
Coos Bay, OR - 2008/2009
Contact: Russell Cox, Engineer
Phone: 541-260-2720
Bullfrog Skate Park
Gold Beach, OR - 2009
Contact: Brad Wood, Gold Beach S.P. nonprofit group President
Phone: 541-247-2428
Outdoor Shed & Sculpted Shower
Port Orford, OR - 2009/2010
Contact: Patti McKenzie, Home Owner
Phone: 541-332-1002