We were just sent beautiful aerial photos of our Lafayette Skatepark. So, with the amount of popularity we had with the aerial photos of Arvada Skatepark we decided to share these so you guys can see what the entire skatepark has to offer.
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Another Team Pain Skatepark in Colorado receives the Starburst Award. This time the Lafayette, Colorado Skatepark has won the Starburst Award for it’s excellent use of lottery funds. Check out the press release from the City of Lafayette below:
Press Release from the city of LAFAYETTE, CO – September 22, 2011 – The Colorado Lottery announced this week that the Lafayette Skatepark is the recipient of a 2011 Starburst Community Award. The Starburst Community Award recognizes excellence in the use of Lottery proceeds in community projects implemented to enhance a community’s environment. The award process takes into account project goal achievements, creative use of Lottery funds, as well as economic and social impacts of the project on the community. The official award will be presented to City Council by the Colorado Lottery during the October 4 Council meeting.
In its entirety, the skatepark covers 19,000 square feet; 12,500 square feet of streetscape and 6,500 square feet of bowl structures. The facility targets the newest trend of “street skaters”, who participate in ‘bowl’, ‘plaza’, and ‘obstacle’ styles of street courses. It was carefully planned to incorporate challenges for beginners to professional levels, and offers unmatched regional longevity with its progressive design. Because of the project’s location in City Park, the City was able to utilize some existing infrastructure freeing up funds to go directly towards outfitting a remarkable, feature-heavy design with optimal skateable components. Unique materials such as granite, sandstone, marble, and colored concrete were integrated into the project to create a
distinct personality and provide an unmatched skating experience.
Skaters concur that Lafayette is definitely one of the best skateparks not only in the region, but the entire state. In the 9 short months the park has been opened, it has been a national stop on the Elements Make it Count Tour, featured in Thrasher Magazine, and a location for the filming of a Smithsonian Network skate documentary. Word travels fast in the skateboard world. Recreation Staff consistently receives requests from skate organizations interested in hosting events and contests at the park. Skate lessons and camps have been full, and other local programmers bring their groups and campers here to use our facility.
According to Curt Cheesman, Recreation and Facility Management Director, “It’s an honor to have been chosen to receive the Starburst Award. We’re very proud of the Lafayette Skatepark and have been pleased with the overwhelming number of skaters, both young and old, utilizing the park and participating in a healthy, physical activity. Its popularity has definitely exceeded our expectations and has proven to be a worthy investment for the City and a valuable enhancement to the City Park complex and the community.”
Lafayette, Colorado Skatepark has been getting tons of attention lately! Lafayette’s well rounded course has made it the perfect place for Colorado resident Patrick O’Toole to start summer skate lessons to introduce skateboarding to the next generation. Check out Colorado Hometown Weekly’s write up on O’Toole’s lessons by clicking the photo below, and be sure to check back for more Lafayette news!
We received a card from Lafayette Skatepark’s grand opening way back in December. Check out Lafayette’s amazing park if you ever get the chance!
Element recently held their “Make It Count” contest series’ Denver stop at Lafayette, Colorado Skatepark. We just finished this park 6 months ago, but it is already getting tons of action! Lafayette skate locals showed up and put a beatdown on the park, but in the end it was Julien Christenson that took first place!! Julian will join the contest winners from all over the world at the finals at Element YMCA Skate Camp in June, along with a trip to The Berrics on Go Skateboarding Day this Tuesday June 21! Check this sick video recap from the contest Element put together, and be sure to check back for Thrasher’s video coverage we will be posting as well!!
Check this classic backside noseblunt at Lafayette Skatepark by one of the most stylish veterans of the street skating world, Heath Kirchart! Emerica recently did their “Skatepark Roundup” at one of Team Pain’s newest parks in Lafayette, Colorado, for an article in Thrasher coming out soon. Be sure to check back for some more coverage of the Emerica team skating Lafayette. We will have some unseen photos shot by Joe Hammeke for you to enjoy as soon as the article comes out, so stay tuned!!
Click the photo below to see the video of Emerica’s Skatepark Roundup!
This Saturday, June 4th, stop 10 of Element’s ‘Make It Count’ event series will be held at the Lafayette Skatepark in Lafayette, CO. This will be one of the biggest contests held at Lafayette Skatepark since Team Pain completed the park at the end of 2010. The entry fee is just a single canned food item, and the prizes are a dream trip to The Berrics and Element Skatecamp. Guest pro Ray Barbee will be in attendance to keep the good vibes going on all day. Fuel TV will also be there documenting the contest, so be sure to look for it on television later this year. Check back for a video update of the contest later next week. Check www.elementskateboards.com for more details.
Team Pain was acknowledged by ACI with the Award of Excellence for Parks and Open Spaces for the City of Lafayette Skate Park. The American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Awards Program is to give recognition to project teams and their innovative uses of concrete. Our project team, consisting of Design Concepts, JVA Consulting Engineering, and Boral Ready Mixed Concrete, was the first to be acknowledged in this category of Parks and Open Spaces.
The Grand Opening of the Lafayette Skatepark was on December 11,2010 and it was freezing cold! Located 30 minutes northwest of Denver, the crowd was there in full effect to experience this wonderful and engaging facility!
Upon entering the skatepark, the skaters are greeted by a series of skateable stones. “The Quarry”, as its been nicknamed by the locals, are carefully arranged in such way that allows people to uniquely skate throughout its landscape. The gray granite,red granite and even white marble that is narrow and shaped with radius and embankments provides for a one-of-a-kind skate experience. From the quarry to the right, there are the two bowls, a pro bowl that closely resembles the classic Australian bowl, ” Bondi Beach Bowl “, and an intermediate bowl that has all the fun elements a 5′ deep bowl could have such as hips, extensions, escalators, steel, pool and brick coping, ramps connected to the deck area, etc.
From the quarry to the left, the skaters can find a newer and unique section, that could best be explained as a mixture of a snake run and a ditch. Not many areas in skateparks are fun for both the street and transition skaters. To the far left, you will find an outstanding beginner bowl. A perfect element for those little guys! The kiddy bowl also has areas with imbedded skateable rocks that really reach the skater’s senses.
A skatepark is not complete without a street section. In Lafayette, we designed the perimeter of the entire park to allow for a path that offers so many elements fancied by street skate aficionados. Throughout the park and consistent with its “rock” theme, there is over 70 feet of grind-able black granite elements to skate, from silky smooth manual pads to all kinds of different ledges and hubbas. Additionally, there is a unique element called the “Shark Fin” and it is a 9 foot long; 4 inch wide granite piece that sticks out of the concrete (like a shark’s fin) forming a longer than usual “pole jam”. Various stairs, china banks and various sizes of handrails are also present to provide fun, progression and challenges for decades to come! The passion the City and Team Pain had in the entire design and construction process speaks for itself in the end product! If you are in Colorado, this skatepark is a must to check out!
Here are some images provided by various people from the Grand Opening.
