Brook Run Skate Park Terrain
Beautiful, huh? Brook Run Skate Park is the largest skate park in the metro Atlanta area, consisting of a variety of skate terrain for all skill levels. Please review the information below to learn more about the skate park terrain as well as the skill level expected to ride such skate terrain.
Peanut Bowl
The Peanut Bowl is for advanced skaters only. The peanut bowl’s deep-end transitions measure nine feet, six inches (9′6″), with one foot, six inches (1′6″), of vertical, thus making the pool eleven (11′) feet deep. The shallow end transitions are seven feet deep, with seven foot transitions, running right up to vert. As a nod towards authenticity, the pool comes complete with traditional blue tile, death boxes and pool coping, creating a true pool skating experience. This pool is where you can expect to see many of good skaters tearing it up.
A word on skateboarding etiquette: When other skaters are skating the pool, it is not acceptable to roll around in the flat bottom, fakey back-and-forth on the transitions or perfect your flat-ground, kick-flip tricks. Skaters are notorious for individual policing of their spots, so if the staff doesn’t catch you, a more experienced skater surely will. You probably would prefer the staff catch you.
Flow Bowl
Ah, the Flow Bowl. This skating area arguably offers the most skate-line creativity. Skating in this area will require, at the very least, an intermediate level of skill and awareness. Why awareness? Because there will be some skaters moving so quickly and smoothly around these transitions that it’s likely you’ll get run over if not paying attention.
There are sections that allow for a half-pipe/quarter-pipe skating style, but I would not advise this unless the park is largely empty. Even then, you can expect that experienced skaters will be developing lines from the street area, to the flow bowl, and perhaps even into, and out of, the peanut bowl. The key word here is - Be aware!
Street Skating Area
The street area is designed for both new, inexperienced skaters who are just getting their feet wet on concrete skating terrain, as well as, for experienced street skaters looking to perform extremely technical and difficult grinding, stalling and sliding tricks. This type of trick skating tends to be favored more by the younger skaters, but that doesn’t mean you won’t see some amazing stuff here. Some of these street skaters will blow your mind.
As far as street skating areas go, the Brook Run Skate Park has one of the best in the country. While the street skating area has all of the usuals like, stair sets, handrails, and ledges, it also has some very unique and interesting terrain to attract transition-oriented skaters as well. There are lots of banks and hips placed strategically throughout the park, many with vertical ledges and steel coping easily accessible.
The most interesting skating element in the street area is an awesome, bank-to-almost-vert setup that appeals to many of the older street skaters as well as the younger rippers.
So now you know the deal. Come on out and skate with us - you won’t be disappointed.
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8 Comments
October 1, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I took my 8 year old to skateboard on Thursday at 3:15. We didn’t know that it was BMX time, because the three other times we were there we missed the 8×11 hand written sign in the window that may as well not exist. There was one BMX biker, hanging out, not really riding. We were not allowed to skate. There continued to be one biker until 3:40. For the next 1/2 hour, there were a total of 3 bikers. In the meantime, at least 10 skaters were turned away. For 40 minutes, one biker had a private multi-million dollar facility to himself. What a joke!!! The staff said that they were not allowed to use any common sense to find a way to let the skaters share the facility.
What a colossal waste of time and money!!!! Dekalb county wasted millions of our dollars for this and then finds a way to under-utilize it!! Pathetic!!!
It’s hard to teach kids common sense and decision making when it is so poorly displayed by our so-called leaders.
October 3, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Anonymous:
First of all, why “anonymous”? - it doesn’t lend much to the credibility to the post, ya know…
I suppose at your swimming pool, when the lifeguards call “adult swim” and there are no adults swimming, you get angry too?
It’s certainly not the park, the administrators, nor the staff’s fault when BMX cyclists don’t show up to ride.
This post sounds eerily similar to the same type of skate park hating that when on via local homeowner association web sites when the park was being built.
The park is great addition to the community and not causing any problems. The only ‘problems’ are self-generated by frustrated parents refusing to review the skate park operations schedule and showing up at the wrong time on the wrong day…
But, I know… it’s much easier to take the path to least resistance and blame someone else, huh?
So what exactly is THAT teaching kids?
October 15, 2007 at 4:13 am
The photos above were taken by me, and I allowed Site Design and Pillar to use them on their websites, but not distribute them as their own.
October 15, 2007 at 10:53 am
The small photos above of each general area of the park were shot by Nick Scott. Apparently he offered the photos to Pillar …or the developers …or something…
Go look at his other photos. Cool stuff.
December 16, 2007 at 4:53 pm
1st off, Much respect to those who worked hard to get this park built. Amazing job! beautifull skate park. To the parent with the negative attitude, grow up. Be mature and use your head, this is a 1st class Facility and if u new just a little about park skating, u would know that Bikes and Boards don’t mix. But u know what your not in the scene so I would’nt expect u to know whats up. Instead of bashing the park do something positive and help out a little ok. I know if I had a park half as nice as this in my city I would be phyched. I was just reading the posts and was feeling a negative vibe (not cool).
Kids stay strong and keep skating!
Peace to John Karg @ woody’s halfpipe the best skate shop in the ATL area ! support your local skateshop!
April 6, 2008 at 2:56 pm
we’re the designers of the park with the help of Brad Siedlecki of Pillar Designs and would like to get our hands on some of your pictures if possible. great website. being somewhat of an insider here, the county went to great lengths to get this park built and went overboard to pay for quality design and construction. glad to hear it worked.
thanks.
June 14, 2008 at 2:37 am
WOW what a park. I did not know there were facilities like this available in the ATL area. I have a 7yr Old showing great interest in skating and well Dad here is not able to even show him how to balance. My son is still young enough to think it is cool for dad to hang out with him and I would like to take advantage of that before he learns that dad is great, but not to skate with. Accordingly, is there a Skate instructor GURU, or what ever ( I do not give a lot of thought to titles) who would teach two newbies, one to young and one to old?
August 23, 2008 at 11:55 am
haveing set times is crap, not letting soemoen skate with a bmxer or a bmx ride while there are skaters there is crap I ride BMX im sick of parks only letting bmx in on tues and thursday and oon sundays in such a small tiem frame…..I LIVE IN DOUGLASVILLE if i plan to go to the park to ride i wanna ride for more than 2 hours….
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