Lai Chi Kok Park () is a large public

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, on the

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of former

Lai Chi Kok Bay Lai Chi Kok Bay ( Chinese: 荔枝角灣) or Lai Wan ( Chinese: 荔灣) was a bay west of Lai Chi Kok in Hong Kong. North of the bay is Kau Wa Keng. The bay was largely recreational during its history. In the early and mid 20th century, bathing pav ...

adjacent to Mei Foo, stretching along the

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motorway. The park is managed by the

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of the

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Features

The park contains a

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, a public swimming complex, an indoor sports centre (with squash courts, basketball courts, ballet studios and badminton courts), an outdoor running facility, a traditional Chinese garden, soccer fields, tennis courts and a skate park. The swimming facility has two main, three training, two children's pools and one diving pool. The main pools are 1.2m-1.4m and 1.4m-1.9m in depth). The Mei Foo skatepark is the largest skatepark in Hong Kong and also the most visited. It contains two half pipes and several quarter pipes, single rails and fun boxes. Most of the ramps are higher than . The skatepark has been visited by various professional skateboarders such as Chris Haslam, Terrell Robinson, and

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, a local indie band, made a song about it. File:Lai Chi Kok Park Phase One 201001.jpg, Chinese

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in Lai Chi Kok Park in January 2010 File:HK Lai Chi Kok Park Map a.jpg, Map of Lai Chi Kok Park in January 2008

References

External links

{{commons category, Lai Chi Kok Park
Official website
Lai Chi Kok Urban public parks and gardens in Hong Kong

Features

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