Crazy well located as you feel you can tickle the SF financial district. Car park right next to it…read more Picnic tables for those extra long afternoon. An inclusive community that don't mind if you bring your 5 yo on a scooter or your trick learning tween or their shiny new board.

PARK IS OPEN! Signs do mention masks and 6 feet distance but not everyone wears masks, especially…read morethe adults. Most kids had their mask on! 6 feet distance is hard. It has a bowl and a few ramps, overall a pretty decent skatepark. The view of SF is pretty cool as well. Good place to let the kids burn off energy!

This park has potential, but the failed upkeep of the park makes the transitions slightly sketchy…read more However, the sketchiness plays a role in SF's skate scene. 3/10 the bowl looked nothing like the photos

Saturday was the grand opening celebration for this new skatepark, on the south corner of Balboa…read morePark, and facing the northern side of Balboa BART station. It's been open to the public for awhile. http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/75pWL8uvmpC827yM7T7cqg/l.jpg The entire renovation of Balboa Park is really beautiful. Some people have the misconception that skate board parks attract the wrong type of crowd. Skate boarders are not biker gangs, just regular kids. Also, it's safer to have an enclosed space for kids to practice new skating skills, instead of them grinding the sidewalks and damaging handrails on public streets. I hope that vandals don't start tagging this park the way they did Potrero del Sol Skatepark. That other place is all made of concrete, so the graffiti can be painted over or sandblasted. This new skatepark's bowl and ramps are made of wood, so any graffiti would ruin it, and be more costly to fix (replace). http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/yy-ehCvytzySVFlK1tJV5A/l.jpg But I also wonder how long the wood surfaces will last after a few rainy seasons. Here's a cool video of people skating on opening day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLOboz1jHa8 Similar future city projects in progress: - Duboce Street Skatepark (aka. Central Freeway skatepark) - Waller Street Skatepark (in the Haight Ashbury district)

HUGE ramps, is really smooth and I had the best experience with this skatepark. I recommend!!!read more

Amazing skatepark! and very nice public park too, fairly clean (other than the graffiti), it has…read morewell kept green areas to stroll around. I came here for the Sinigang SF cart's debut. Sometimes you'll find dog owners playing in the open areas. It opened in 2008. The place is an urban oasis, surrounded by the busy 101 freeway on one side, and cars buzzing on Potrero Ave. on the other side. But it's pretty peaceful at night. This skatepark is just a year old. Best place in the bay area to watch skateboarders do their thing. At the moment, everyone is respectful, and gets along well. It's also a convenient location when you get hungry, because of the many great places to eat nearby on 24th. The directions to get here are simple: from the 24th & Mission BART station, go down 24th street towards Potrero Ave., carefully cross Potrero (watch out for speeding cars) then turn right on Utah (at Jack's Club), one block to the park entrance. If you're driving, there are many free parking spots at the entrance. Hours: daily until 9pm.

This place should be the skatepark that all skateparks compare themselves too when they are in the…read moredesign phase! I love how tucked away it is in the middle of the City. I love that they allowed for artists to come and adorn the walls and overpass posts with color, culture and names of visitors past. There were a wide range of ages skating, biking, watching. Parents sat with their chairs outside of the complex looking on. There was even a gentleman whom sat by the entrance whom had set up a table and was streaming music. Everyone was very aware of their surroundings and there seemed to be this unspoken understanding of skatepark etiquette everyone was abiding by. It was a mixture of skateboarders and BMX enthusiasts. My 14 year old son has gotten really into skateboarding. It's what he got into during quarantine and this whole Covid thing. It was a way for him to incorporate some physical activity and something to concentrate on and hone in his skills with. I can tell he feels good and feels like he's in shape. He is mindful of what he eats on a daily and ensures he is drinking plenty of water. Not bad for a 14 year old huh? I think what has become a true passion has also helped him in the area of time management. Since he homeschooled for the 18 months or whatever it was he knew he has a set time frame to get school and school work done so that he could get his time in daily to skateboard and then still get online and play a few rounds on his gaming console. I really like how he evens out his time and prioritizes the way he does. I know some adults that cant get a hold of their time and here is this 14 year old in the middle of a pandemic crushing it. He continues to amaze me that one. Anyway, this skatepark. Since my son is passionate about skateboarding I've told him we should make an effort to seek out new parks for him. I sit and read or scroll through my phone and he does what he does and admires other people and their talents. It allows for him to see what he needs to work on and what he wants to accomplish. Every City needs these. They need a place for kids and adults to be able to do something positive and do what they love. There was no charge for this place. Parking is a little daunting as it IS SF but when you are in a City like SF you are aware of the "walking culture"..lol! We parked a couple blocks away. Place is clean and I assume since it is fenced in there is a closing time and someone comes and locks it so the park doesn't become a homeless encampment. It's a great place to visit if you need a place to let off steam, live and let go of all your cares getting some cardio in!

Nice people, fun place to skate and hangout. As a woman it is a relief to find a safe place to…read moreskate with my friends. Lots of restaurants and other things to do in the area.

Great skate park with awesome manny pad and flat bar as well as fun vert. Also has a fun little…read moreslappy area as well

Don't get me wrong, this is great to have down the street for kids to play and skate on. The park…read morewas safe and clean and the kids that were there were nice. The problem is that it is just very poorly designed for skating. The flow is all wrong and the individual elements don't make sense. Better to have one complete bowl or a complete miniramp than partial elements that don't work together. It is also not very observer friendly. If you're going to travel to a skatepark, pick something else - Potrero del Sol to the north, Greer in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale or the best - Fremont.

This skatepark is TINY. Everything is hella steep. It's an ok skatepark I guess. Just not for…read morepeople who aren't great at skating such as myself.

This is just a little skatepark but it has a good selection of things to skate. A nice incline…read morewith a hip, ledges big and small, a handrail, and a couple steep hips. If you are really into skating transitions, this is not the park for you as this is really geared towards street skaters. On the day I came through, the kids were pretty obnoxious so I would be hesitant to bring kids to the park that's connected to the skatepark. Regardless of that however, they were really good at skateboarding and it was fun to watch them shred while I was catching my breath in between runs. It was interesting that they had coping on the ledges that went straight into the corners of the park yet opted to leave other more accessible ledges without coping, but this is a minor complaint. I would come back here again, but I would like to practice a bit beforehand as the skill level required to really kill it here is a little higher than what I currently possess!

Basic skate park is what it is. It can be found on the east side of Golden Gate Park. Waller Skate…read morePark has a few features including ramps and things. Convenient to get to from the street in front. The park is a safe place to practice a few moves. A few good things about it. It's in an okay location. This is close to the old Kezar Stadium. Difficulty is moderate. Even though it looks simple, it's kind of hard at least for beginners it seems. A lot of crap to jump over seems to be the main message. The park seems to be safe for the area even with all the crazy people jumping off something. Good place to get exercise. It's a fast way here from the busses in front. These go past the park's main entrance to the north of this.

Hundreds of skateboarders use this park, and I'm sure the neighbors are grateful they have a…read morededicated space to tear up the concrete. This isn't one of those fancy places with large ramps & empty swimming pool sized bowls, all covered in graffiti. Waller Skate Park is not intimidating, a great place for beginners to relatively safely improve their skills. I think they could use some more ramps. Opened October, 2022, thanks to the 2012 Park Fund, DLX, Friends of Waller Street, & SF Skate Association. I was there for the Zion Rick Gains memorial. He was a 19 year old devoted skater who, in 2022, was senselessly shot in the face, survived, lost his eyesight, yet continued to skate. Zion passed away in his sleep June 2023.

About a month into re-learning to skateboard last July, I broke my shoulder here not realizing how…read moresteep a ramp was and how ill-equipped my brain and body were to handle it. This morning I had my first skateboard lesson here (a Christmas gift from my wife). In between I've been here for a bunch of early morning sessions to skate around on wonderfully smooth concrete. Of the three parks I go to regularly (Burgess, Beresford, and this one), this is my favorite (though I'll be the first to acknowledge that I'm still a beginner who can find enough of a challenge skating parking lots and curbs). I'm a bit more interested in flatland than the bowls so I think this will continue to be my favorite place to skate. There's an outer loop that you can take around the whole park, with ramps of differing grades, really good for beginners like me to figure out balance and kick turns. There's a small bowl and a large bowl and I haven't spent too much time in them yet. There are also a bunch of steps and rails...not sure if I'll ever be able to put them to good use. It's quiet in the mornings, especially before 9a, so old dads like me can get a lot of practice time in when we arrive at 730a.

It's smooth and well maintained…read more There is a small, shallow bowl, along with a much deeper bowl and a spine with a small platform area. There is also a narrow street section closest to the soccer field with stairs and places to grind. The rules seem a bit much, but no one was there to enforce. They probably have them to avoid lawsuits, without saying "Skate at your own risk." It was getting late and the light was fading, but the lights from the soccer field were helpful, even though it's a dawn to dusk park. Helmets and pads? Didn't see any. No bikes, no scooters? They were both there. No one bothered anyone. Chill. There was a group smoking outside the skate park, but inside it was clean--respect for that. I think no one wants to pay to enter because the city has to pay to have someone clean the skate park.