By Mike Prisco
In 2003, our skate park was built after the death of Robby Carr and Jacob Shumway. It earned the name of Spirit Skate Park. It is made of lumber and plywood that has worn out after the years of all of the bikers, skaters, inline skaters, and scooter kids. There have been a lot of repairs done from the people who have built it and they still help fix all of the problems that has occurred through the years.
Spirit Skate Park is very nice and has well built ramps, but it also has its flaws. Will Hastings, a local who skateboards, says that our skate park should be organized more correctly for the skate boarders who skate there because all of the ramps are too close together. With the ramps being too close together, the people who go to the skate park struggle with the tricks they are doing. Will also said that it would be a great idea to build an extension that is more built for a skateboarder on our park.
In consensus from listening to all of the Hopkinton skate park kids; it has come to conclusion that it should be extended outwards because there is such little space. The extension would cause the field hockey field to move outwards about ten to fifteen feet. This would give the skate park the opportunity to build at least 4 to 5 new ramps. These ramps should be friendlier to skateboarders such as more kickers (jumps), tabletop ramps, and rails.
Goffstown has a skate park that has ramps that are better for skateboarders, but not for everybody else like bikers or kids who scooter. The Goffstown skate park has a lot of space, but there are not as much ramps as the skate park in Hopkinton. Goffstown wouldn’t be a good place to go instead of the Hopkinton skate park, so the extension would be a great idea to get more people to skate or bike there. If the Hopkinton skate park built an extension, it would attract more people and donations could be thrown in to help repair all of the ramps and to save up for more charities to make the Hopkinton skate park one of the best in New Hampshire.
