A group of Milwaukee skateboarders didn't ask for permission when they opened a skate park beneath Interstate 94 in the Walker's Point neighborhood four years ago. Known as National DIY Skatepark, it ...

Some call the site an eyesore, but to Harford County skateboarding community members, “Ledgewood” is their paradise. It’s a grassroots skatepark in Edgewood built on the deteriorating pink-and-green ...

Underused and decaying tennis courts in the McCook Field neighborhood may be converted into Dayton’s first skatepark. Lifelong skateboarder David Schweitzer proposes building a do-it-yourself (DIY) ...

Last July I wrote a Reader cover story, “Welcome to the skate park,” about OnWord, “a local skate crew that welcomes skaters of all ages and all abilities, prioritizing women, trans, nonbinary, and ...

When there isn’t snow on the ground, 36-year-old Gordon Hendrick grinds rails and kickflips his way through a defunct tennis court on the Mohawk Riverbank that has been converted into a skatepark.

More than 30 years ago, a group of Portlanders created their own skatepark without any permission under the Burnside Bridge. The Burnside Skatepark is credited as the first do-it-yourself, or DIY, ...