Hermistan Skateboarding Park

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Location: 1st St., behind Highschool Student parking lot, Hermistan.

STATS
Info current as of: July 2002.
Last visit date: March 2002.
When Opened: __
Who built: __
Surface: Metal ramps on a sloped concrete pad.
Size: Small.
Difficulty: Medium to difficult due to "funkiness".
Fun: Very limited, I don't recommend going out of your way to skate this park, but at least the skaters in Hermistan have something.
Helmets: No rules posted.
Bikes: Graffiti says "No Bikes," but no rules posted. No one using park when I visited.
Supervised: No.
Hours open: Not posted.
Lights for night: No.
Covered: No.
Cleanliness: O.K.

Friendliness: No one skating the park when I visited. The park is pinched in between the Highschool student parking lot and a big baseball field. Not sure how Hermistan HS students treat skaters.
Questions/Contacts: Hermistan Chamber of Commerce, 415 S. Hwy. 395, Hermistan, OR., 97838, phone: 541.567.6151. Be prepared to have to pay for the city map, Hermistan's Chamber is one of only two C of C's I have contacted that make you pay for their map, despite the map being covered with adds. Vancouver WA is the other C of C that makes you pay.
Nearest Skateboard Shop: __
Hospital/ER: __
Misc: This is a hard skatepark to find and I don't recommend even bothering. If you just gotta see it out of curiosity and it is curious, find the Highschool student parking lot off of 1st. St., enter the parking lot and head to the back corner towards the ball field. You will see the park pinched in behind a Cop/Firestation, ball park and the parking lot. The park is surrounded by a chainlink fence but someone cut an entrance near the parking lot. I'm not sure if it is O.K to park here, especially during school hours. I felt super uncomfortable here. You might want to stop in just to see the most bizarre quarter-pipe corner ramp on earth, looks like it the inside curve of a dragon's scaley tail. No restroom, drinking fountain or payphone.

As of: 7-28-2002