James City Skatepark, Williamsburg Virginia

James City Skatepark, Williamsburg Virginia

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WHERE: 5301 Longhill Road, Williamsburg, Virginia 23188

WHAT: Concrete park with two small bowls connected to a ditch with a small, horseshoe shaped quarter pipe at the top. This is scattered with various little boxes, rails, and kickers.

GOOD:The concrete surface is perfect. It’s one of Virginia’s few outdoor, concrete parks. The ditch and bowls are real mellow, and only about 5 feet deep. This makes for a good spot to experiment with new tricks, and get real weird.

BAD: Everything is so mellow that it can be hard to keep speed at times, although I have seen some dudes tear through this place. Most of the lines converge in the middle of the park, so once there is more than 10 or so people there, it starts to seem pretty crowded. Kids in Williamsburg apparently really, really like Bob Marley.

PADS: none required

FREE OR PAY: free

DIRECTIONS: google maps

OVERALL: It is kind of amazing how much this park, from a bird’s eye view, is shaped like a dong. I mean, the people planning this either were really funny or really oblivious. It is probably the only place to skate in Williamsburg, so go early to avoid mallrats.

PARK WEBSITE: James City Parks

10 responses so far…

  1. evan said this on 04/19/08 at 7:44 pm

    i heard the park designer got burned by the city and submitted a plan that looks like a dick and balls from overhead. wow.

  2. Joey said this on 07/3/08 at 3:30 pm

    Yeah it’s absolutly shaped like cock and balls but it is a fun lil mellow park to learn new stuff at.

  3. Aaliyah said this on 07/18/08 at 3:22 pm

    dude um… bob marley?????

  4. Jim said this on 08/5/08 at 8:18 am

    Hey, I didn’t make them like Bob Marley, I’m just saying that if you go there, you’ ll probably see a lot of Marley t-shirts, hats, skate decks, trucks, wrist-bands, fanny packs, visors, and pretty much anything else that you can make Rasta colored and print his face or name on. I’m just sayin’.

  5. Aaliyah said this on 08/10/08 at 8:19 pm

    ohhh!! Went to old town skatepark in manassas. I want To learn how to drop in but affriad ill kill miself any tips?

  6. tim said this on 04/9/09 at 9:35 pm

    lol did anybody else notice that a kid is busting ass in the first picture?

  7. Barf said this on 04/15/09 at 9:39 am

    Actually, he’s doing these sick layback slides.

  8. jacob said this on 09/22/09 at 12:58 pm

    This parks blows!!! but even worse are the locals…go figure the park is the shape of a penis when it’s mostly dickheads that frequent this park….

  9. Jesse said this on 01/28/10 at 12:21 am

    Jacob your acctually wrong the people who frequent this park are not dickheads there actually really freindly and nice to be around and you probly dont go there more than 2 times yourself so dont be critisicing things and giving good things a bad name.

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