Farmington Hills - Riley Skatepark

HEY! I just realized I have pictures of Riley skatepark over in Michigan. I was trying to stitch them together, but I must have been dancing a jig while I took the pictures, and it just won't work. So here they are in leftish to rightish order. I believe this is a Grindline or Dreamland with local contractors doing the non-transition work.




Deep end. I never slashed the pool coping so I can't say if it was nice or not. I was lazy and out of shape last fall. 10' I believe.


Ah my first cradle. So fun, spit me out a few times, but I have no complaints. The concrete is a little rough in there, but to get that high you need to be moving fast and a few bumps are the least of your worries. There's a video here. And that kid made me damn nervous I thought that kook was gonna fall.


To the right. The coping has a pretty big diameter.


TACO!


The smaller flow section. The hips are perfect. The short section is really short, and one side of the spine is way too small. There's pool coping on that extension, which has a really steep transition.

What you can't see is at the bottom left lip of the last picture, it's a quarter to bank extension. The quarter has bowl corners so you could carve up on to the bank, and onto the quarters on the top mid-deck. The bowl is on the other side of the upper deck to the left of the picture.

The park also has a really neat jersey barrier that is very long and curves. Some traditional street stuff, which is well separated, no boards flying into the bowl. You can also climb up on top of that cradle if you so dare. Excellent park, not without its flaws.  Worth the 4ish hour drive from Chicago. Go get some.