October 24, 2024

A spooky update!

Spring sprung, summer scorched, and fall is now upon us. The working group continues to meet regulary, and a little while back, a number of volunteers came out and (finally!!) finished staining the jack leg fence that establishes a vehicle barrier for the park. There are more grant applications out to fund park improvements, the county along with volunteers have been maintaining the grass. We greatly appreciate all of the park users helping keep our park clean by picking up their own garbage, and others!

June 6, 2024

Successful Grand Opening!

A HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT! What a great day! The park was extremely busy all day with people skateboarding, scootering (is that how you say it?!), and enjoying the beautiful day! On June 1st 2024, we had our Skate Park Grand Opening event. Local supporting organizations came out including Clinton Rural Fire, all four members of the Clinton Community Council, James Thomasson from the Clinton School Board of Trustees, Missoula County Commissioner Josh Slotnick, Girls On Shred, Blackfoot Communications, and more!

May 10, 2024

First After School Skate Camp In The Books!

What a great success! Twelve total kids from Clinton Elementary School were able to participate in three days of skateboarding basics. Over the three days every single student dramatically improved. Each one getting one on one time throughout the two hour sessions by the instructors, Randy and Thane! Day one! Something like half of the students had never been on a skateboard until the first day of the Skate Camp.

May 3, 2024

June 1st Grand Opening!

RSVP/Share On Facebook! It’s official, June 1st will be our Grand Opening! While the Skate Park has been open since the concrete was finished, we weren’t able to schedule a Grand Opening event until June 1st. So come down and enjoy some time skating! Maybe grab a bite to eat, and maybe meet a special guest! Come on down, Saturday, June 1st, 11AM! Food Trucks Speakers Community Booths “Race Around the Track” skating event Ribbon cutting And of course, free skating!

March 9, 2024

2024 Clinton After School Skate camp!

The ASP skate camp will be run with Missoula City Parks and Recreation department, and available only to currently enrolled Clinton Elementary students in 2nd-8th grade. The Skate Camp will be offered for two three day sessions of about 13 students in March, on the 6th-8th and the 13th-15th with afternoon times matching the Clinton ASP times. The Skate Camp is being offered as a program outside of ASP, and is being funded through donations/sponsorship secured by the efforts of the Clinton Community Park Working Group (Thank you Jane!

February 14, 2024

Thank you 2023 Donors!

A Big Thank You to ALL of our donors for 2023 and early 2024! Your support makes a difference!

February 12, 2024

Welcome to 2024!

While we’ve been very quiet on social media and the web site here, the Park Working Group has been busy over winter! Today it is lazily snowing outside as I write this. The Park Working Group has been keeping regular monthly meetings with Missoula County PTOL all winter, and we’re all excited for Spring and Summer! Starting a recreation program from scratch isn’t easy. While this year we only have the Skatepark itself we want to get the wheels rolling, both figuratively and literally.

December 4, 2023

2023 Construction Season Time-lapse Video

Thanks to Adobe After Effects template projects, and very amateur skills, we’ve got a short time-lapse video to show everyone. Also…I guess we’re kind-of on YouTube now…So, that’s a thing…

November 19, 2023

Need a board!?

Christmas is coming up, parents, grandparents, friends, etc. The BOMB! Board of Missoula has WAY, WAY, WAY better boards than you’re going to get at the department stores. And great deals for first time skaters. Board of Missoula also has gift cards! Stop by and pick one up!

November 18, 2023

A (probably) last hurrah before Winter 2023!

Randy, Donna, Jackson, and Mike finished the last bits of laying out some erosion control mats on top of the hydroseed next to the park in the last couple of days. We’ve put the degradable fiber-and-straw mat down to help the hydroseed take in the spring, and to help keep it from being damaged while retrieving the inevitable errant skateboards, razer scooters and the like.

November 12, 2023

Hydroseeding done, entrance sign and lots of visitors!

The hydroseeding contractors finished spraying down the grass+mulch mix on Friday the 10th! We’re asking everyone to please stay off of the green hydroseeded areas all around the skatepark surfaces. Thus far it looks like everyone is being really awesome about staying off the hydroseed, and we GREATLY appreciate that! I know I promised a new big aerial orthophoto in one of the previous updates, but, as is the way with technology, something went pretty wrong.

November 2, 2023

Skate Park Open and future plans

tl;dr; We’re not done yet! More things are planned and, with continuing support, built in the 2024 construction season! The Skate Park officially opened for the public on October 21st, 2023. We had one VERY perfect weekend right after that, and now fall/first winter is settling in. It’s been freezing rain today as I’m writing this very update! The Skate Park has been our focus as we begin the process of turning what was a disused baseball field into a community asset.