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Prairie Creek Preserve
Prairie Creek Preserve Path is a segment of the larger Gainesville-Hawthorne State Trail. Longboarding this tree lined trail was scenic and smooth! And we even got to see some wildlife.
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Las Cruces Skate Park
The Las Cruces Skate Park is a very large skate park with an open layout. This park has a lot of banks and turns as well as boxes, ledges and rails. The backdrop is pretty impressive too!
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Longboarding the Rio Salado Path in Phoenix
The Rio Salado Path is a great place to longboard in Phoenix. It's smooth with a few fun hill and parallels the Salt River offering nice views.
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Longboarding The Grand Canal Trail
Grand Canal Trail is a paved path in the Tempe area that runs along the water. It's a chill place to skate and get around town.
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Venice Beach Skate Park
The Venice Beach Skate Park is very diverse with a variety of obstacles and bowls. The area in front of the skate park is a mostly flat area, but there are a few little ledges and rails to grind on. There are also a few small walls with smooth vertical transitions.
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Eastward Travels Through Arizona
While traveling east across the US we stopped at a few places in Arizona! After leaving LA the check engine light came on in the truck. I stopped at an auto part store so they could run the test and they said all I needed was a new gas cap, so I got a new one and put it on the truck. We stopped at a few skate shops and we were able to cruise on our boards a little, too. We found the Grand Canal Trail and we decided to skate that for a bit. You can read about that trail HERE. After a few hours of driving not…
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Alondra Park LA
Alondra Park is a nice large park in Lawndale. There is a nice path to cruise throughout the park as well as a skatepark!
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SLO Skate Park
The skatepark in San Luis Obispo is great! The park is big with great flow and a great variety of obstacles. There are several unique bowls as well as a large street section to keep you busy for hours.
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City of Angels
After the central coast we made it to Los Angeles!! I used to live in LA so I had to skate around and stop at some skate shops. I used to skate from my work on Wilshire down to the beach in Santa Monica. Longboarding in LA is fun, but can be scary at times. It is a concrete jungle with smooth sidewalks and streets everywhere! But.. there are also a lot of people and cars and… well.. there is a lot of EVERYTHING in LA, and that can be dangerous sometimes. Like when people are texting and driving and not looking for longboarders or pedestrians in the cross walks.…
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Pacific Tribe Skateboards
On my travels across the country I was able to meet with Mark, the owner and founder of Pacific Tribe Skateboards. Mark is a handyman - someone who can figure out how to fix things and acquires new skills easily. He is a Youtube learner and passionate about his children. Those things led him to making a few longboards in the garage with his son. The craftsmanship and quality had begun to be recognized by the people who saw the boards. Soon people started to ask where they could purchase some of his boards.
