I took the boys out to the only skateboard park in San Francisco today, which is the Crocker Amazon one. This park is next to impossible to find since it has literally no signage, but it's located right past the Cow Palace on Geneva Ave, and is next to the new turf athletic field construction project.
What a disappointing experience - the bowl is covered in graffiti and trash, with dirt at the bottom of the bowl. The place looks like an empty swimming pool surrounded by a huge fence. The only good news was that it was almost empty, presumably due to its condition and location.
As SF Chronicle columnist Ken Garcia outlined here in 2000, this park cost over $500,000, but appears to to be the product of some half-assed attempt to check a box in someone's To Do list of construction projects vs actually creating something of value. Given how many kids in the city would like to skate in a better situation vs doing so illegally along the Embarcadero, it would be great if the city at least cleaned up the bowl. In the meantime, I recommend the Alameda Skatepark, at least in the morning before the crowd gets a little rough, and if you ever get to Truckee, the public skatepark there is one of our favorites
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