I continue on with the Oregon series. Part 4 was snowboarding, part 5 was the Dew Tour Vert. Portland Oregon is one of the cities with possibly the most amount of skateparks per capita in the US. It has a goal of having 16 skateparks in the city limits alone, plus many suburbs have parks (like West Linn, Newberg, Battleground, WA, etc) of their own. This plus the fact that Portland has some “edge” to it and is an arty forward thinking town makes it a prime place to visit, hell, to live. The rain is the only drawback but the rain is what makes it so beautiful and I think the rain is what makes it more arty and social so whatevs.

“I am so sick of the fucking Portland skateboarders, they think they are so punk and shit, they just think Burnside is the shit. They are a bunch of dirtbags, you hang out them and next you know your wallet is gone” That quote is not from me. I experienced nothing but cool people up in Oregon. There are rumblings around Burnside though being a locals kind of place. Sorry to admit I don’r know about that

Burnside is pretty much the Grandfather of modern transition skating. Burnside came about in the early 90’s right when vert was dying. Burnside was the first real, free cement skatepark. Since then there are free cement skateparks in every town and kids take the parks for granted. Transition riding is booming. Imagine if Red and crew never took the effort to build Burnside. Would we still be stuck with just vert and street skating?

Someone could pretty much make a book on Burnside, there has been so much that has happened there. Unfortunately my little article will be grossly in-adequate. Speaking of gross, this little bowl had a small puddle of yellow liquid at the bottom. Was it pee or Easter egg die?

As you can tell in the photos, the park was pretty empty. This was about 9 am on a Saturday morning

Glenhaven is a fairly new park, located off 82nd street just North of I-84. It is pretty small but has something for all, street, bowl, banks, mini bowl, tons of fun

looking down the street rat area

The mini bowl

The peanut bowl was steep but fun. Check out the bench with the whoop de doos. Dreamland makes every inch of a park skateable…it’s the details

the street area

GNARLY kink, Oregon parks dare you to step it up

another view, again , this was early in the morning and bikers were having at it

these banks alone could provide hours of fun at Glenhaven

on the little qp end section. Glehaven is long and narrow. It has flow, you could skate the street/flow area without putting a foot down. The two bowls sit next to the street/flow area