Scotts Valley Tim Brauch Memorial Skate Park

It is close to Santa Cruz. It’s clean and has good ramps for jumping, and enormous bowls. Locals are friendly as I’m from out of town.

Wow a kids dream of a skatepark. Can’t wait to come back. Nice clean bowls, spacious with bumps and areas to kick in speed and trick areas. Surrounding the park are 6.5′ iron fence
Skateboards, inline skates and scooters only. No BMX. No pets allowed. Open sunup to sunset
Helmets and pads required but only my kid and another skater were wearing helmets. A BMXr arrived and no problems lots of room
We arrived around 7pm on June 18^th so there was lots of daylight left.
My kid made friends with another skater as they taught each other some skills
Plenty of parking. The lot is also shared with dog park and soccer fields. There is a lot on the other side of the skatepark as well near the Scotts Valley Recreation
No food or drink allowed in park but you could wheel up an ice cooler next to one of several benches outside of the skate gate and even a small bleacher. Water faucet also there.
This park is where the old Scotts Valley SkyView airport was located. Next to soccer fields, and a splendid dog park

Great skate park! Lots of angles, slopes and several ranges of bowls to learn and advance on. Decent size for many skaters at once. Looks very well maintained. Unfortunately the water fountain right next to the skate area is broken. There’s others further out in the park though.

well, i personally am a sunnyvale skate park local. i always saw lots of videos that use the scotts valley skate park and knew it was not very far. sometimes, i figured that i would hit it up during a trip down to scotts valley for those famous sessions warehouse sales. well, now that samsung is moving the sessions warehouse to new jersey, i suppose we won’t be having any more of those. however, scotts valley isn’t just home to sessions and a few tech companies. (because santa cruz is what austin, texas is based off of, and _​that_​city has a tech industry, so it makes sense that scotts valley has a tech industry.) it’s also home to mission springs christian retreat and conference center. thus, even without the sessions warehouse sales, i suppose i sometimes have reasons to end up in scotts valley. at a recent retreat with grx (great exchange covenant church), i woke up early each morning to hit up the scotts valley tim brauch memorial skate park.
well, i kind of had an idea what to expect because i saw the park in videos and because i knew it was built by the same wormoudt group that built my home park. it kind of is a bigger version of the sunnyvale skate park, which is already really nice. like sunnyvale, it has a mix of street, bowl, mini. ramp/mini.bowl, and banks, etc. it has a very small baby bowl like what you can find at the lake cunningham regional skate park in san jose. these very small baby bowls can be a good place to learn to ride tranny (transition), i suppose; but maybe they’re for kids because i always found them way too small to manage. the bigger baby bowl is the smallest i can go. it’s like the baby bowl area of the sunnyvale skate park but totally sectioned off and with my curves.
the main medium sized area has lots of banks and a few bowl walls. it has this vast flat area in the middle, which can sometimes steal my speed.
it has two bigger bowls with a bit of vert. since i was there in the early morning, i don’t know what kind of crowd this park really attracts. when i was there, a couple of older guys (like me) showed up, and they mostly rode these big bowls, as most older guys like to stick to pool and bowl riding. they look like fun. i’m just not very good at riding big bowls.
well, all in all, i like this park. it’s great. it’s nice and smooth and pretty well maintained. it’s also fun to watch the dogs in the neighbouring dog park. since i live up in the silicon valley, i probably won’t make it down there too often. if i go anywhere other than my usual, it’s probably lake cunningham.