Discover the Crowley Skatepark - The Lost Longboarder

The Crowley Skatepark is located in the small town of Crowley Lake, California. This is a nice, simple skatepark with an interesting layout, smooth transitions and a decent flow. There are many great places to board off of the US-395 including some great longboarding spots and skateparks!

First Impressions:

The Crowley Skatepark is a simple skatepark with banked turns and smooth transitions. Most of the skatepark has a long skinny layout. The skatepark has a horse shoe bowl and a large pool like bowl.

Pros:
Smooth transitions, banked turns, and a great bowl.

Cons:
Bowl is lined in coping with no roll ins for a longboard.

Know Before you go:
Bathrooms and brooms available. Boards, skates, scooters, and bikes are all allowed. Bring a helmet!

sweeping the dust and debris out of the bowl

Directions:
The Crowley Skatepark is located at: 58 Pearson Rd, Crowley Lake, CA 93546. To get there take exit 252 off of US-395 and head south (away from the lake). Turn left after the little market/gas station. You’ll see the skatepark on the right. And there’s plenty of parking and bathrooms.

Riders Thoughts: Crowley Skatepark

The Crowley Skatepark is a cool and simple skatepark. This skatepark is pretty close to Mammoth Lakes and is a good alternative to the often crowded Volcom Brothers Skatepark. The Crowley Skatepark has an open layout with plenty of room for a few skaters before getting crowded. There is a large main area with short vert walls and coping. The vert walls in this area are about three feet high, which is a pretty good height for boarders learning to drop in.

This main area has a very useful hump in the middle of the floor that gives riders the ability to pump and build up speed in any direction.

using the hump feature in the main bowl area

The Crowley Skatepark is fun to cruise around in on a longboard because all of the vert walls have smooth transitions and banked turns. The hump in the middle of the main area really helps build up speed and has great banked turns in either direction.

entering the main bowl at crowley skatepark

Off of the main area there is a great horseshoe shaped bowl area with taller vert walls. The walls in this bowl are a taller than the other area, around 4 feet. This horseshoe bowl makes for a great half pipe to skateboarders dropping in from either side. The smooth transitions in the corners of the bowl are fun to surf on a longboard and are extremely helpful in building up speed. From the top of the horseshoe bowl there is a ramp leading to the rest of the skatepark. This ramp is key for starting a run on a longboard because it is steep enough to give a rider speed leading into the banked turns, but not too steep to bottom out the longboard.

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The Crowley Skatepark has a cool wall feature in the main area. This wall has coping on top for dropping in, and the corners of the wall transition very smoothly from other directions. There is also a box built into the center of the long wall. The smooth transition of this wall makes it great for wall riding up over the box.

box built into the wall at crowley skatepark

From this wall the flow of the skatepark takes you down the long skinny part of the park. This long skinny part of the park has a long wall on one side and the edge of the cement on the other side. This part of the park also has a rail and self standing box.

On this end of the skatepark there’s a very tall wall and vert corner feature. Coming from the other end of the skatepark a rider can really build up speed. So the engineering behind this tall vert wall gives skateboarders a great place to turn around and head back the other direction.

The rail and box are on a ramp and in great placement for a rider to ollie up and grind on. This corner of the skatepark is a sharp turn, but connects the elevated perimeter of the skatepark down to the rest of the skatepark.

Checking out the large bowl at Crowley Skatepark

cruising the large bowl at crowley skatepark

The Crowley Skatepark has a large bowl with a unique shape. The shape has 3 different parts to it at different elevations. The different areas of the bowl flow together really well and make for a fun bowl with a variety of lines. One section of this bowl is shallower than the other sections, making for a fun downhill into the banked turns of the other sections. This bowl is pretty deep, taller than me, so probably around 6 or 7 feet deep. It would be easy for a skateboarder to air out of this bowl after dropping in.

This bowl is surrounded in coping which made it hard for me to get in with the longboard. Since it was surrounded in coping and taller walls it felt separated from the flow of the rest of the skatepark, but it was probably done so intentionally to give it a pool feel. I was still able to take advantage of the steep walls and narrowness of this bowl by jumping in with the rip-stick!

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If you’re in the area the Crowley Skatepark is a great spot to get a skate session in. With smooth transitions and a good flow this skatepark is fun, providing a variety of different vert heights for riders of different skill levels. And the awesome bowl provides experienced riders a great place to shred.

Also in the surrounding area, there’s a great downhill mountain run you’ll want to check out called Rock Creek Road! You can read about that here. Or check out this nearby longboarding run on Owens Gorge Road. It’s a four mile scenic and mellow run that ends with a bang!

And if you’d like to read about some other skateparks that we’ve been to, check out the links below:

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