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Alameda Skatepark
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
9 reviews for Alameda Skatepark
9 reviews in English
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Review from Kirk S.
Pittsburg, CA
11/6/2008
technically, this park sucks.. but for some reason you find your spot and have a good time. I was trying out a new deck and was dropping into the bowl all day, carving it up. Then I went to the Martinez park on my way home and with the same deck, ate a plate of shit and broke my wrist.
I just sold that deck.
all in all, alameda is built like shit but that, and its location give it it's charm. -
Review from Justin C.
8/17/2011
Not the best park around but still a good time if you like to carve around the bowls. Not much in the way of street but you shouldn't be at a park for it.
Watch out for all the bikers and Rollerbladers, they can arrive in droves. Come here early to avoid any crowds. -
Review from Mace M.
San Lorenzo, CA
4/12/2009
I've been going to the Alameda Skate Park since its creation. Though, the past few years I haven't been skating much, but have recently picked it up again.
I've seen pros like Bill Pepper, and the guys of team Spitfire and team Etnies here in its hay day. Overall, its a great park. A good mix of street and vert skating, and enough riding room for everyone.
You can always find a mix of skateboarders, bmxers and even roller bladers here. In the past few years though, this skate park has become more of a domain for bikes than anything else.
One of my favorite things about this park, is if you get a cloudy night, but the weather isn't too terrible, the lights from the Port of Oakland bounce off the clouds and light up the entire park! -
Review from Clarence B.
Tucson, AZ
6/14/2006 1 photo
Last summer I lived on17th and Jackson in downtown Oakland. This was the best summer of my life.
I spent my weekdays localizing the city on the Bill Murray, a piece of shit rusted ass bike that I found on the roof of the apartment building. I would strap my skateboard on my back and start going for it.
One of the usuals was for me to head down to China Town and grab some tea and experimental foods then get on the #63 bus and ride to Alameda skatepark. Dude would drop me off right in front of the park.
Alameda skatepark is shitty: poured wrong, sticky coping, small, bad trannies, has wack BMXers, is in the middle of nowhere, is built on super toxic old naval base land (at least as bad as Berkeley, but without the seepage) and can be boring as hell... but does that make it all bad? nope.
There are several redeeming qualities of this place. It is so bad that is is almost good. The crappiness of it all gives it character and pad nazis are non-existent. You could smoke, drink, turn up the ghetto blaster and blast boneless ones all day if you wanted to. And with the Oakland shipping yards right there, you sorta feel like an outcast longshoreman on lunchbreak.
I would skate the park for hours, many times completely alone, and then take the ferry home. (and last summer there were anti-terrorist coast guard armed escorts everyday, making me feel like the US government was giving me machine gun skateboarding brotection) How rad is that?
Take Alameda Point with a grain of salt... it aint Oregon or Arizona, and it certainly isnt Bordertown. But sometimes the shittiness of it all is rad.
Goddamn I hate looking at the BMX dude with the ponytail pulled through the hole in his hat though.
***UPDATE*** big ups for 4th of july chaos here. tons of illegal fireworks and hell-raising. i've never driven so far the wrong way on a one-way street on purpose in my life. total good times. -
Review from Crysthel C.
Alameda, CA
10/17/2008
I'm not much of a skater.... I actually can't skate at all. BUT, I did go here about a month ago on my bike, and it's a good thing this place was empty because I fell on my ass a couple of times here.
I think this place is great, just because it's the only one in Alameda, and it seems to be really popular with the kids. -
Review from Loren S.
Berkeley, CA
12/17/2009
Two stars. I'm really sorry 'meda; you were good when there were few parks in the area...but, alas, that time is gone. (sob, sob)
You've heard it all before: the transitions are lumpy and the coping is sunk way too far into the cement. I have so many good memories of skating Alameda, but now that the Berkeley skatepark exists, why bother?
Sure, the view from the skatepark is nice - but is that why we go to skateparks? -
Review from Andy C.
Alameda, CA
10/7/2008
Yeah, it's a mixed bag, but it's still my home park :) Good sized freestyle area, lots of varied sized ramps. It's got a big half-pipe pool thing that has an easy roll-in. If you know the park, there's plenty of long surf lines to ride. Worth the visit if you haven't yet.
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Review from Tony N.
Oakland, CA
9/19/2010
This park is pretty good if you want to skate alone. Come here at about 8 in the morning on a thursday and theres only about 1 or 2 people here. Its peaceful to skate. No posers come up to you and ask for a game of skate. Just peace. Its a great park. Worth trying out.
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Review from Joel C.
Daly City, CA
9/19/2006
it's nothing great. yes the bowl seems to have different transitions on opposite sides. yes the bikers are often numerous. all in all though, i like the alameda park. it's close, usually not that crowded since most people head over to berkeley now, and you can sit, drink and skate without fear.
there used to be occasional late night sessions with a generator, big ass lights and drunken mayhem, that's how the alameda park rolls.
