The David Armstrong Extreme Park, formerly called the Louisville Extreme Park, is a 40,000 square foot (3,700 m²) public
skatepark
A skatepark, or skate park, is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, scootering, wheelchairs, and aggressive inline skating. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, stairse ...
located near
downtown Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...
, United States, in the
Butchertown neighborhood. It opened on April 5, 2002, and gained national recognition after the release of
Tony Hawk
Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur, and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse. A pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding, Hawk completed the first documen ...
's Gigantic Skatepark Tour, in which the park was featured. The park is open 24 hours everyday, and was designed with the input of a local task force. The public skatepark is owned by Louisville Metro Government and operated by Metro Parks.
In 2014, about one-third of the park was demolished, to be followed by the rebuilding of facilities on adjacent property, to make way for flyover ramps to support the new
Abraham Lincoln Bridge
The Abraham Lincoln Bridge is a six-lane, single-deck cable-stayed bridge carrying northbound Interstate 65 across the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. The main span is (two spans) and the bridge has a t ...
.
The rebuild was completed on April 14, 2015, where the park was dedicated in former Louisville Mayor
David L. Armstrong
David Lawrence Armstrong (August 6, 1941 – June 15, 2017) was an American politician. He served as the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1999 to 2003. He was the city's last mayor before its merger with Jefferson County to form Louisville Me ...
's honor.
Park features
The park is most often known for its full pipe, but it also has an impressive set of other features including, two bowls, two bowls, two bowls, a bowl, a few fun boxes, a street course, a flat bank, several ledges, rails, and endless lines. It also has a wooden vert ramp with a extension. There are also publicly accessible restrooms and emergency telephones.
See also
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List of parks in the Louisville metropolitan area
References
External links
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{{List of parks in Louisville, Kentucky
Parks in Louisville, Kentucky
Skateparks in the United States
Sports venues in Louisville, Kentucky
2002 establishments in Kentucky
Sports venues completed in 2002