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!

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.

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

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…

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.

We’re all EXTREMELY excited to announce that our skate park is OPENING to the public on Saturday, October 21st! Some of the Skate Park Working Group members will be there during the day, as well as Girls on Shred We’ll get some pictures of the finished hard surfaces Very Soon(tm)!

Beginning at the end of last week, and continuing into this week the hard working Evergreen crew has been shooting concrete. All hands on deck! CONCRETE’S HERE! Once the mud starts flowing, it’s all hands on the pour. Concrete is dirty, it’s heavy, and it’s messy. And it isn’t going to wait for anyone or anything. Once that truck gets loaded at the batch plant, that concrete has a clock. Tick-tock.

The crew from Evergreen Skateparks is here! They’re full speed ahead on the project now. I took these pictures this afternoon and you can already start to see the footprint. Like we said earlier, things are going to change FAST now. They’ve got a number of crew members already on site with two pieces of equipment working on removing the grass (grubbing). With the site now an active construction site we kindly ask that everyone stay well away from the crew and the site in the field.

The hard surfaces are completely funded! This includes all of the earthworks, drainage, constuction materials, machinery, concrete, and man hours to build the actual hard surfaces of the skate park! WE COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT OUR GENEROUS DONORS FROM THE COMMUNITY AND LOCAL BUSINESSES!

CSS Contracting (Chris) was out this past weekend and installed the drainage sump. On his own dime he had the donated sump transported it to the site and installed it. It doesn’t look like much now that it’s in, but, that is also the point! This sump, donated by Montana Precast Concrete, will collect runoff from the hard surfaces of the skate park, providing a place for the water to go rather than sitting in and on the concrete features causing damage.

We’re planning to do these throughout the skate park construction! This isn’t from Google’s satellite view, this was assembled from about 150 images taken from a drone flying about 100ft up.