From a town of 1,300 people to a metropolitan complex, Evolving Skatepark has been designing riding facilities since 2001. Here are 46 of them, documented in detail.
That spread gives us first-hand knowledge of the very different settings a riding facility lands in: coastal, mountain, suburban, rural.
It has also brought us up against the heaviest constraints — wetland and a listed-monument buffer zone at Pontivy, contaminated ground at Meudon, soil so soft it needed rigid inclusions at La Réole.
Hover over a dot to see the town, the type, the year and the site area; click to open the project. The filters below also act on the map.
One project can bring several facilities together — the Pontivy complex includes a streetpark, a bowl and a pumptrack. It therefore appears under each of those filters.
Action sports complex · 1,400 m² · official opening on Sunday 18 October
Action sports complex: skatepark and pumptrack · handover in November
Freestyle park · 900 m² · handover in December
Skatepark
Pumptrack · 1,800 m²
Pumptrack
Pumptrack at the leisure park
Most of the tenders we receive describe a facility whose area and budget do not match the brief announced. This is not a criticism: without reference points, an urban action sports project is hard to calibrate.
That is why Evolving Skatepark publishes, for 46 of its projects, the year, the type, the areas, the site footprint, its exact role — and the value of the works contract. Forty-four real budgets, from €30,000 to €1,360,000. Including the modest schemes, not just the flattering ones.
Find the town closest in size to yours and you will have an order of magnitude before you even call us.
6 pages · A4 · budgets by type and a project-by-project breakdown
A drawing cannot tell you whether a track rides well. These 13 videos were shot by riders, clubs, local media and the contractor who built the tracks — not one of them is ours. That is precisely what makes them worth watching.
The videos play without leaving the site. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you click.
We answer a town launching its feasibility study just as readily as an authority still weighing up whether a facility makes sense at all. The first conversation costs nothing and often clears up a great deal.
