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Parker Skate Park

Howell Area Parks and Recreation
Parker Skate Park

PARKER SKATE PARK
1400 W. Grand River
behind Highlander Way Middle School
Use the bus drive off of Highlander Way

Parker Skate Park Presents: 2007 Autumn Skate Jam Competition Winners!

Autumn Skate Jam - Parker Skate Park - October 6, 2007

Beginners

1st-Place: Joe Waryas

2nd Place: Justyn Ewald

3rd Place: Sergio Bubio

Intermediate

1st Place: Dillon Hammell

2nd Place: Karl Hofmeizter

3rd Place: Tim Barham

Advanced

1st Place: Billy Christie

2nd Place: Braydon Kavanagh

3rd Place: Michael Wilson

Best Trick

Billy Christie

Winner of the "2007 Battle of the Bands Contest"

November Fire

Band Members:

Guitar & Vocals-Matt Prokopp

Bass-Jerad Osterman

Drums-Cody Leverette

Best Guitar Player in Livingston County

John Burkart

More Pics! 
 

2007 Monson Yack Memorial Skate Competition

Click here for the 2007 Monson Yack Memorial Skate Competition Winners. 

SKATE AT YOUR OWN RISK

• Use of this facility is at your own risk. The City of Howell and the Howell School District are not responsible for any injury or accident incurred during the use of this skate park facility.
• Use of safety equipment, as required by the In-line Skate Association, such as helmets, gloves, knee and elbow pads, wrist supports, and proper shoes is highly encouraged.
• All skate park patrons are responsible for providing their own skateboard, skates and equipment, and for ensuring that they are maintained in good working order.
• No rough housing, abusive behavior, intimidating language or profanity at any time.
• No bicycles, scooters, or other pedal, chain driven or motorized devices allowed in the skate park facility.
• No food, drink, glass containers or smoking allowed inside the fenced-in skate park facility.
• Non-skaters should not be on the skating surface area of the skate park facility, except to assist small children or in cases of an emergency.
• This Skate Park is open and closed as determined by the City of Howell.
• It shall be unlawful to bring into this skate park any property other than skateboards, inline skates, and safety equipment.
• All other Howell Area Parks and Recreation and City Department rules and regulations must be followed.

“PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 1062 OF THE HOWELL CITY CODE, WHOEVER VIOLATES ANY OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE HOWELL AREA PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A MUNICIPAL CIVIL INFRACTION.”

Parker Skate Park History

There are well over a thousand skate boarders (and in-line skaters) in the Howell area. Skating is one of the fastest growing sports in the country. Using public and private resources, our community provides for baseball, soccer, football, basketball, tennis, and numerous other activities for our youth. However, our growing contingency of skaters has to travel to Brighton and beyond to skate on a professional park.

Over the past year and a half the committee has achieved considerable progress;

• We have identified a site for the park on the north side of the Howell Public Schools Freshman Campus. The City of Howell will lease the property from the school district and will assume all responsibility and liability for the operation of the park. The school district and the City have agreed that the park will be closed during school hours.
• We have a design that envisions a 3-tiered concrete park that is very much a “street” style skate park with steps, rails, curbs, low walls, pyramids – all the obstacles that skaters like about skating in downtown and around public buildings. The park will be fenced and gated and will have restroom facilities.

In January of 2004 the committee initiated a public fundraising program to help raise the funds for the construction of the park. As of May 1, 2005 approximately $200,000 in cash and in-kind products and services have been pledged and/or donated to the Skate Park Fund.

Skate boarding is the fastest growing sport in America. Although Howell has a variety of youth recreation options available, it has no skate park. Most of the recreation options available involve organized team sports. Many young people are not interested or are unable to participate in these. A growing number of communities, many of them being smaller than Howell, have skate parks.

• Kids safety! It’s much safer skating at a park than on the streets.
• It’s a healthy, positive youth activity that’s less expensive to provide than many competitive sports.
• Skating gives a lift to the self-esteem of young skaters, keeps them busy with the positive skill-building activity that skating provides, and helps the very kids who often do not participate in more traditional team sports.
• With no official skate park, skate boarders and in-line skaters must practice their skills on sidewalks, streets, parking lots, alleys, and driveways. This is both extremely dangerous and quite harmful to benches, retaining walls, curbs, and all the other obstacles the kids skate on.
• A skate park will reduce maintenance costs of these structures.
• There are well over a thousand young skaters in the Howell community. Skaters tend to seek out individual athletic challenges rather than team sports. These kids have attempted, unsuccessfully, to establish a skate park in Howell for several years.
• There are huge benefits from the physical activity.
• Skating promotes the value of “goal setting” in our youth.
• The activity builds attitudinal and behavioral “assets” which contribute to more positive life choices.
• A skate park will contribute to community pride and makes our community more attractive to potential newcomers.
• A skate park will help retain our young people in our community. It will serve young adults – of whom many skate.
• Promotes diversity by helping break down the barriers that separate groups of kids.
• Community leaders support the skatepark. The “Skate on State” event held in October demonstrated that community support.

The City of Howell is continuing to look for Donations to help the Skate Park.

• Pennies for the Park jars and VG's receipt boxes are located at City Hall, Bennett Recreation Center, and at the Barnard Recreation Center.
• Future Fund Raising opportunities include Meijer Community Rewards and the Scrip Program.

If you are interested making a donation to the Parker Skate Park click HERE.

Click HERE to view the list of people and companies who have donated to the Parker Skate Park