OAKLAND — Plans are underway to bring back the half-pipe skateboard ramp to Montclair Park and a meeting to discuss the issue will be held at 11 a.m. July 9 at the park’s picnic area at 6300 Moraga ...

Fiona and her dad, Nate Beaman, navigate the ramp while Adam Lukens look on.matthew thorsen Filmmaker Nate Beaman couldn’t wait to introduce his kids — Fiona, 7, and Shamus, 6 — to skateboarding. When ...

STANWOOD — The city’s skate park got a makeover this month, with the older wooden ramps replaced by modular-style steel ones. “It’s a lot more interesting and a lot more fun,” said Nate Brown, 19, of ...

When the skateboard park in Ferndale’s Donald Red Geary Park closed in March as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, Whitney Lemelin was faced with a decision. Should he and his teenage daughter Ellie ...

Fürstenzell in Bavaria, Germany, is home to the production center of Europe’s premier ramp builder, IOU Ramps. If you've ever skated a wooden park in mainland Europe in the past two decades, chances ...

OAKLAND — Montclair Park opened its first official skate park Sunday to the excitement of the local skating community with the unveiling of a community-built mini half-pipe. Although the park did have ...

Eric Craft crouches low on his $75 Roscott skateboard as it clatters, at maybe 35 mph, up the curved plywood. The board and its rider somersault, then careen to the opposite incline. Next door, ...

American Ramp Co. has grown quickly in 10 years, and company officials hope two recent acquisitions will mean even more growth. Owners Nathan Bemo and Daman Schuber, along with company employees and ...

On a hot Saturday, Jonathan Schwan saw two years worth of work finally come to fruition. Schwan, 15, was seeing the completion of two new vertical ramps at Memorial Park in Colorado Springs. “This ...

VISTA, Calif. — The skateboard ramp made headline news 45 years ago, when it was just 8 feet wide. It was the creation of Tom Stewart, who lived in Encinitas at the time. In 1977, a reporter from CBS ...