Glendale Verdugo Skatepark

Don’t even think of coming unless you have pads and a helmet, they won’t let you in
Plus you have to pay $ 3

Great little park with fun lines and a killer pool-​inspired bowl. Bring full pads or you can’t skate — elbows included.

Love this place, and love the staff. Love that it’s only skate park around that restricts access to those on skateboards– no scooters in the park. The kids love going here, the Dads that never stopped skating pools are there on Sunday mornings like clockwork. I also like the guys who run it. To the idiot who wanted to walk around the inside of the park and got yelled at, it’s a liability thing. It’s a park where you have to sign a waiver, and they charge a very small fee. They don’t let anyone walk around past the benches at the beginning without safety gear on – they can get sued if you are silly enough (and I knew someone who was) to step on a skateboard without equipment. And yes, minorities skate here too even though it’s Glendale, so if you need to tell me the race of the guy that pissed you off, it may not be the park for you. They have group and individual lessons, and do a camp in the summer.

Good shade, friendly staff. Great for younger skaters but I see a lot of veterans here too. At $ 3 the price is right. Lessons available for kids just starting out. My daughter took a couple of lessons ($ 20/​hr Mon Weds Fri 4pm-​5pm) with a great instructor and gained tremendous confidence. Sat mornings from 10am to noon is reserved for 14 and under.

Recommended by another Father I know, as his son took lessons here for a few years, I took my 5 year old boy for his very first 1 hour skate lesson today with Amaury (it cost 40 bucks. You can get a ½ hour lesson for 20. They have six week skate camps for 100 bucks which is a group with a maximum of 8 students with one instructor. You can also skate all day for 3 bucks). He got my boy up and riding in no time. For a kid who has never even stepped on a skateboard, he was having the time of his life. You need to wear protective gear. I also believe that the mornings before noon are for 14 and under. Then the grown ups come. There is a nice street course, and two nice pools. I saw Amaury working with another kid before mine, as well, and the lesson was good. I think I’m gonna take a few lessons to get back on a board, as well. Fun place. Good teacher. Nice kids helping Amaury with my son’s first lesson. Every one of the 6 year olds helping my son out. It was cool.

–A charge of fee ($ 2.00 per scalp)
–A sign of waiver
–Pads & Helmets are insisted
–Shitload of flow
–Smooth ass concrete
–Clases for the ignorant ankle biters
–Soda machine near by

I drove up here from LA to find out I couldn’t skate cause I didn’t have pads. No big deal, so I ask to walk the park and get a good look to see if it’s worth coming back and as soon as I take two steps in the Hispanic/​phillipino looking skinny man working there yells at me and starts treating me in a condescending way. I will not be coming back, I suggest this place put their 16 year old staff in check and be more respectful. Good park ran by dickheads.

I drove with 4 of my friends to this park with so much excitement but ended up disappointed. We got so pumped up! Listening to «Thrasher» music on the way there!
Then we saw the park and it is a medium sized park with mostly Vert.
But we found out you 1^st have to pay and then wear helmets.
When we heard this we were full of animosity for this park.
We ended up skating the community college next to it. A few stairs and ledges.

The only downsides to this skatepark is the hours and the fact that i have to pay to skate. that’s just because it doesn’t work with my schedule and I can’t skate as often as I’d like to (which makes purchasing a annual pass a gamble for a «timed ex skater» like myself). I’m lucky to hit this place once a week, but I’m still very grateful to have such an amazing skatepark in the city I live in and I’m looking forward to hitting this place more often. this place would honestly get 5 stars if the hours were a little better, but the reasoning is understandable. The staff here is great and the vibe is amazing. The locals are all hella friendly and shred, which is super motivating. At the end of the day I’d recommend this place to anyone who wants to skateboard. it’s totally worth it if it works with your schedule.

This place is the coolest place on earth.
Everyone is so respectful.
The couple dudes running the place keep it professional.
Highly recommended.
Period.

great skateboard park! great concrete work and design. especially love the kidney pool.

I want to respond first to the first review stating this is not a place for kids. I hate to hear what happened to your child, but I really think that his experience may have been an isolated one.
At this point my son (who is 7) and I go here about 4 days a week, 3 – 4 hours at a time. There’s a couple of occasional obnoxious teenagers, but hey, you get those everywhere you go :).
Beyond that, this is one of the friendliest skateparks in socal. There isn’t the attitude you see Santa Monica or Venice, or the aggro crowd I feel like is always at the highland park or Burbank skate parks. Any time of day, any day of the week, you will see at least 3 – 6 kids under the age of 10 skateboarding here, most with their parents watching them, or in my case, skating WITH them.
The slightly older kids (10 – 13) I’ve found to be very encouraging. And while yes, their language isn’t great, they always seem happy to take my son under their wing and teach him stuff while I go off to skate on my own. (And really, any boy that age has a trench mouth).
An top of this, Saturday mornings at this park, from 10 – 12 is reserved ONLY for kids under the age 14, and both weekend days offer classes for kids AND there are several days in the week which the staff offers inexpensive private lessons for kids.
So really, this is the best park for kids to skate at in my opinion. Everyone is generally friendly, the park is a pro-​level in its design, and skaters of all ages and skill levels are made to feel welcome. Maybe there has been a staff turnover since the initial review was written, because Jose, Omari and the rest of the guys who run the park are very chill, have no attitude and seem to genuinely like kids.
There has been maybe one occasion where I had to tell some kid to back off of mine– but it wasn’t anything I haven’t had to do at a regular park. Kids are kids, and sometimes little boys are tools… but I’ve never seen a bully at this skate park.

This is the friendliest place I’ve ever skated!
The design of this park is suited for pros and beginners alike. I’ve just spent three days teaching my 6 year old kid how to skate and in those three days, he’s learned to get off his butt and stand up and skate around to now skating down most of the ramps and into the snake run and even riding fakie in the pools.
The park is also full of kids (boys and girls) and adults eager to help you with developing your skill level.
I’ve gone from a timid ex-​skater, to a full-​fledged, «let’s quit our jobs and skate all day» kind of guy.
I’m so happy my kid dragged me here. We’re both skating and loving it.
Thanks to all the local kids and adults for making this skate park a second home for my kid and I. We love you all!

This place is cool but needs some up keep. The lips need a work over and I think the city should increase it’s size with more variations for people ability.
I take out a youth group here of 10 – 12 yr olds and they have a blast. I expect the city would rather have places like this than nothing for the kids to do and hang out creating coos!

Verdugo is my regular Skatepark. I’m the one rollerblader that actually enjoys skating this park. It is definitely for the old school skateboarder and a lot of them do skate this. It’s all transition, not many rails or ledges. I enjoy it because it has great flow. You can keep a fast paced run through the street course.
It has two bowls. One of them is amazing. It’s a clover with a 4 foot, 8 foot, and 10 foot section. Very smooth concrete and metal coping on most of it. The other bowl is a POS. It’s supposed to be like a real swimming pool, so it has horrible translations and pool coping. I wish it was filled in and made into something else because very rarely do I ever see someone skating in it.
Its $ 2 for people who dont live in glendale. The pad rules are really strict becauce there is always a staff person on. You must wear a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. You cam get around the elbow and knee pads rule by wearing pants and a long sleeve.
As for the previous review from a concerned mother, I would have no issue sending a kid over 10 here alone. The staff is not a baby sitter, they are just there for everyone’s safety. Most skaters here are very nice and let the younger kids have their own space.

WARNING: for parents letting their children skate at this skate park alone…
My 12 y.o. son was very excited to enjoy our local skate park today and unfortunately was harassed and bullied by some regular skaters– This all done in front of the staff. The skaters used foul language and threw his equipment around until he left in tears. I was bewildered to hear that the staff did not intervene and correct the situation. My child said that they saw & heard what was going on! When I called to report the incident, John (skate park staff member) informed me that they are there to make sure the children do not hurt themselves physically, but they are not there to help children if they are being bullied. He said that they have a lot of mean kids that go there… that’s just the way it is. They will not doing anything about it. I wouldnt let my child go back.

Skateparks on Unilocal?Why not?
Plus I get the bonus of being the first to review. I stumbled on this because my son is getting into Skating and he wanted to check it out. We cruised over to Verdugo…
It’s got great features, it’s not too crowded and the best part is that it’s got a great vibe. There are kids just learning, seasoned pool vets, grizzled AA types getting their thrills the old fashioned way, a smattering of pros that come in and rip it and… me.
…the adult beginner kooks who grew up ‘suburban skating’ and want to now try and turn into real skaters.
The staff are cool, pads are required, you sign you life away at the door and away you go. It’s a good spot.