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 Paramount Skatepark
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* Outdoor: 'Crete
* Free
* Trannie / Street
* Rating: From the Crypt!
We could have sworn that we'd shot the Paramount skatepark - sometime in 2001. We skated it, too, but never could find the shots? Two years and a couple hundred skateparks later, out comes the Paramount evidence.
It's a pretty good park - part of the "2nd generation" of Purkiss Rose [714.871.3638] projects. It's not too gnarly, or creative, but it has one smart bit of planning that makes good sense - 3 distinct sections! You've got a lazy round bowl, the "street" area, and a separate, smaller street area. Separate sections means fewer crash-ups... good idea.
For more parks in the area, check these options... There's wooden pay-park action at Torrance. There's a much better bowl at Bellflower - but their street course isn't great. Fullerton, Brea, and La Habra are all right, too.
Directions: Paramount is right in the middle of the LA sprawl... to get there, take the 710 fwy and exit Rosecrans, heading east. Cross over Orange, then make a right [south] on Garfield, followed by a left [east, again] on Sommersett. A couple blocks later, the skatepark is on your right [south side], at the intersection of Sommersett and Illinois.
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