Daniel DeSanto kickflips over an embankment at South San Francisco’s new skate plaza.
South San Francisco’s new skate park doesn’t look like much. There are no half pipes or handrails or complicated obstacles. It’s just a long stretch of flat ground with rectangular ledges spaced between a few basic embankments. But to skateboarders, these simple features have made it the most talked about skate park in Northern California.
The park has been officially open for less than a week, and it’s already getting rave reviews from the skateboarding community. Thrasher Magazine called the park “a beauty” in a video released this week, and even professionals are flocking to the park. Miles Silvas, one of the best street skateboarders in the world, told SFGATE that the park feels like a “perfect” skate spot.
“I’ve had a lot of people already reach out to me to find out where the park is at. … It’s going to bring a lot of people out there,” Silvas said.
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The skate park is located along the Centennial Way Trail between South Spruce and Huntington avenues. The city of South San Francisco redesigned the trail, which runs above buried BART Tracks, and officially opened the redesigned park last weekend with a new playground, bike park, green spaces and picnic areas.
The bare bones skate plaza is getting rave reviews from........