Lake Leota Skatepark

4,000 square feet
Opened in June 2006

The first of the Evansville Skateparks, this facility features a ramp, quarter pipe, and fun box with a grind rail. The wood based ramp frames are covered with Skatelite Pro material. Designed by TrueRide.

NEWS (October 2006)
An act of negligence and vandalism at the Veterans Memorial Pool, while drained, by area skateboarders resulted in closure of the Lake Leota skatepark. The Evansville Skate Club has been reformed to work to reopen this park.

The Evansville Skate Club will be talking with Park Board about the possibility of slowly replacing the wooden structures with concrete ones. This will occur in a number of stages and we need the participation of skaters to help us formulate some designs.

• Develop a master plan for the skatepark that can be created in phases. Excavation will not be done in this skatepark.
• Create specific plans for each obstacle.
• Raise the funds, materials and labor to build each new concrete structure.

Ultimately the goal would be to replace all of the existing structures with concrete versions. This would allows the Lake Leota skatepark to be:

More interesting by design. (We can consider forms that are impossible in wood, such as hips, banks of varying angles, wedges, etc.).
Virtually indestructible.
Quieter. (Concrete surfaces emit far less skateboarding noise than wood.)
Less expensive in the long run. (The maintenance for wood skateparks is almost always much more than anyone anticipates.)

Pictures (Coming Soon)