Burgess Skatepark in Sparks, Nevada

Burgess Skatepark in Sparks, Nevada is a medium sized concrete skatepark with a pretty open layout and lots of street skating features. This skatepark is good for riders of any skill level because the park is mostly flat and the open layout gives riders plenty of space to avoid each other. Burgess Skatepark has a couple banked turns, but overall this is not a great skatepark for longboarding in a skatepark.

First Impressions of Burgess Skatepark

Pros: Tons of quarter pipe and ramps, and a little bowl.

Cons: Lots of flat open space with a lack of flow.

Directions: Click here to get directions to Burgess Skatepark

Know Before You Go: The skatepark in Sparks is located in Burgess Park. Here you’ll find a baseball field, tennis courts, playground and a large grassy area.

Riders Thoughts:

The Burgess Skatepark is definitely a skatepark geared towards a street skating style. The skatepark features a number of ramps and quarter pipes aimed at a centrally located island of skate obstacles. The ramps and quarter pipes around the perimeter of the skatepark vary in size and steepness. This is great for learning and building confidence.

The unique open layout of the Burgess Skatepark in Sparks can be a great feature. It gives riders a lot of flat open space to skate into when learning how to go down the ramps and drop down the quarter pipes.

There is an island of street obstacles in the middle of the Burgess Skatepark and it’s home to boxes, ramps, rails, and a quarter pipe spine.

The layout of the Burgess Skatepark is set up great for riders to drop in from the perimeter and hit the island of obstacles. This layout is great for learning how approach different types obstacles, but it also makes for a very simple back and forth straight line while skating which was not very exciting for me while riding a longboard in the skatepark.

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The back side of the Burgess Skatepark is where riders can find a few smooth transitions and banked turns.

This area of the skatepark is small but provides vert riders with a taste of smooth transitions from the large open area of the park. This is where I was able to find some flow and surf the cement a little with my longboard.

In the corner of the skatepark riders can find a small bowl.

This little bowl is fully lined in coping and is very mellow. This is a great bowl for beginners to learn how to drop into a bowl and deal with some small mellow banked turns. Advanced riders will have some fun in this little bowl, but may get bored easily.

Overall the Burgess Skatepark in Sparks, Nevada is a great place for learning because there are a number of different obstacles and there is plenty of flat open space. The flat open space is a great learning feature because when your learning to drop in a ramp or quarter pipe you can get going fast. And it’s nice to not have to worry about running into obstacles or falling off an edge. Watch our video about the Burgess Skatepark to see it in motion!

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And thank you for supporting The Lost Longboarder blog! If you’d like to see more cool skateparks, be sure to check out the links below:

• Delano Skatepark
• Anthem Skatepark in Henderson
• Ulysses Skatepark in Golden, CO
• Lions Skatepark in Fresno

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