Photos: Brooks Fritz
When my wife and I decided to go out to Las Vegas to visit family for Thanksgiving weekend I decided I was going to make it a point to stop at this skate park I’ve driven by numerous times without stopping to skate. Pretty much I’ve only been to Vegas in the summer and if you didn’t know it’s pretty darn hot here in the summer months. Not exactly great weather to be skating in. It’s more like pool swimming, air conditioning, black jack, slots, craps, roulette and free beer drinking weather if you know what I mean… This not being one of those kind of trips, with nothing really going on besides hanging out at the brother in-laws waiting for the turkey to cook I was able to sneak away for a little bit to skate and bring you this Sunny Springs Skate park check out.
You know the saying it’s good from far, far from good. This park is a perfect example of that.
Address: 7620 Golden Talon Ave Las Vegas Nevada, 89131
Open: Pre 2001
Who Built it? Not sure but definitely not skateboarders.
How big? 15,000 square feet
Open 7am-11pm
Does it have lights? Yes
Is it free? Yes
Pads? Dont think so. But dont take my word for it when you get a helmet ticket.
Talk about wasted space. Lots of flat ground with nothing on it.
Kids really take care of the place. Oh don’t worry about it, I was told it will get windy enough one day and blow it some where else.
pyramids
The locals
The most “popular” thing ridden. I say ridden because they weren’t skating. Pretty much everyone who was at the park was on a bike.
Could be worst.
Way lumpier then it looks
I guess they had to put this sign up because some kid cried so much he drowned in his own tears.
“street features”
Titty
I’m not sure who would think this would be a good idea but putting a bunch of small rocks as landscaping around a skate park doesn’t seem to practical to me.
Excellent layout design
Uhh i think kids like these things. put one over there.
So you pretty much have one push to get nasty on the 6 stair or roll on ledge of death.
“oh we dont care about the rocks. They’re no problem for our bike tires”
No more skate photos for me. I am officially a razor scooter photographer now. Well that’s that. There’s the Sunny Springs review. To sum it up this park is pretty much garbage with garbage all around it. It looks good from a far when you are driving by but it is definitely far from good. But as one of the locals kid said to me, “it’s better then nothing.” And that’s whats so awesome about skating. You can pretty much have fun riding one anywhere. Have a good week. -Brooks
Tags: las vegas skatepark, spot check, Sunny Springs skate park, terrible skatepark, thanksgiving weekend
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