Located at 159 Nichol Street, Waterford Skate Park is a concrete, outdoor skate park, now open to the public daily from 8:00am - 9:00pm. Waterford Skate Park promotes activities for a large demographic, with a focus on youth as well as accessibility and adaptive participation.
The vision of a committee of local volunteers who have spent the past several years fundraising and organizing every step of the build in order to bring this skate park to life for the Summer of 2024. The mission remains – to ensure youth have equal access and opportunity to physical activity and sports in a healthy, outdoor environment.
ACCESSIBILITY
Waterford Skate Park is easily accessible from all neighbourhoods in Waterford. It features a multi-terrain design for all skill levels and abilities, with a focus on special needs with adaptive and wheelchair accessibility.
The Waterford Skate Park has been designed as an all wheels action sports park for skateboard, inline, scooter, and BMX. The park has features designed for beginners, intermediate, and advanced riders/skaters. The south side contains plaza style features such as rails, ledges, an a-frame, and manual pad. The north side contains vert style features such as a roll-in, box jump (one of few outdoors in Ontario), quarter pipes and vert wall. The east side has a large bowl and small features on the surrounding top deck.
The park is designed in sections for progression from small to large features for the local community to learn and grow.
The area adjacent to the park will include a pump track for beginner and intermediate riders to learn the basics.
Features surrounding the park will include amenities such as lighting, picnic tables and benches.