The 25 most sacred skate spots of all-time

Last year, I delved deep into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the video game series that captured a zeitgeist, defined a milieu, and changed skateboarding forever. One of my most ambitious features ever, the treatment was cathartic to produce. It satisfied a formless curiosity that had gnawed at me for years. Finally, I managed to capture in words the game’s ineffable magic, and I was proud of how that piece came together.

As a kid, I was not a skater. The football casual scene was more my vibe. However, skateboarding always intrigued me from afar – even if I could not tell a nosegrind from a boardslide. After all, I came of age in the 2000s, amid the waning ripple of Hawk-mania, when pop culture was very skate-coded – from Green Day and Avril Lavigne to MTV, Dirty Sanchez and Monster Energy drinks. It was hard to avoid tangential brushes with skate culture, and I vowed to get under its skin one day. 

The Hawk video game article was my way of doing that, albeit much later than expected. I was 30 by the time that topic roared out of my pen à la Charles Bukowski, but I really enjoyed studying the games as a prism through which to explore skateboarding itself. I watched YouTube clips. I devoured video parts. I listening to The Nine Club podcast. And, somewhat inevitably, I developed hopes of standing on a skateboard myself, for the very first time, against all prevailing logic.

As such, despite the eye rolls of my wife and accurate accusations of lost marbles, I embraced a quarter-life crisis and purchased a skateboard – plus plenty of protective pads – this spring. After a few unsuccessful attempts to even balance on the board, however, I felt disheartened and demotivated. I stuffed the gear in a wardrobe and stashed the skateboard under our bed. Even my humble daydreams of ollying a small kerb or dropping into a basic quarter pipe felt unattainable, and I neglected my newfound-yet-quickly-abandoned hobby through much of this summer.

Once you start thinking like a skateboarder, though, the enchantment never dies. Even if certain tricks are beyond your capabilities, you can still visualise them, imagine them, and craft them. You still see skate spots everywhere – even if landing tricks on them remains pure fantasy. Idealistic ideation knows no bounds.

The world looks different once you have been bitten by the skateboarding bug. The municipal becomes sacred; the mundane, sacrosanct. Random columns of nondescript concrete stairs – the same ones you have ignored hundreds of times – are suddenly compelling. So, too, are overlooked handrails, battered old benches, and ledges camouflaged by urban banality. That which is unnoticed by the layman is worshipped by the skater, and there is an invigorating charm to such spartan mindfulness. It teaches us to find wonder in the ordinary – a lost art in this age of glitzy gratification.

Shorn of any skateboarding skill, then, I have still found myself contemplating spots in my local area and further afield. Wherever I roam, in fact. Naturally, that niche interest led me down a rabbit hole, and I have become increasingly beguiled by the most sacred skate spots of all-time. The more I have watched, read and listened, the greater my appreciation for such lore has become. I have developed an innate awareness of the most lionised spots – a reverence for their myth and meaning – and I want to write about them. I want to pay homage to those fabled architectural quirks and satisfy another nebulous fascination. I want to chronicle the arcane ingenuity.

Compiling some kind of list felt like an expedient way to showcase legendary spots and offer novel insight – from an admitted noob – that may contribute to the fragmented discourse. However, the interpretive nature of skateboarding – especially street skateboarding – defies such easy classification. Such are the infinite possibilities contained within even the most innocuous apparatus, nobody can capture a comprehensive inventory. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and what one skater sees as rad, another skater might not see at all.

Conflict is inevitable when discussing – let alone ranking – skate spots, as layers of rumour, hearsay and folklore must be parsed and navigated. Much of the skateboarding mythos is passed by word of mouth – a strong oral tradition that bewitches and frustrates. At least one of your favourite spots is likely absent from my list, therefore, but I request forgiveness as an enthusiastic dilettante who just wants to leave a digital footprint of a new – if unformed – enthusiasm.

As such, this is an ostensible ranking, but one so caveated as to require a heap of salt in accompaniment. At best, it represents my gut interpretation of skateboarding heritage – based on confessedly limited exposure. Nevertheless, I’m passionate about the subject, and that is worth something. So, let’s give this a go.

25. The Pink Motel

Ostensibly a retro motel, but also a Hollywood movie set with a café, bar and de facto museum, The Pink Motel is home to an iconic swimming pool that once captured the skateboarding ethos. Empty pools were integral to the development of skateboarding, and this gorgeous spot – with its iconic pink coping – epitomises the genre.

24. Castle Bam

 A $1.2 million mansion in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Castle Bam was duly christened in 2004, when Jackass hell-raiser Bam Margera moved in. (1) The ultimate party pad, Castle Bam features many legendary custom-built skate spots – from a snaked driveway and crook ledges to scattered ramps and hidden indoor slopes. This subterranean bolthole is not for everyone, but the glory and gore etched into its fabric make it a citadel of the skateboarding underworld.

23. Kona Skatepark

The oldest surviving commercial skatepark in the world, this Jacksonville, Florida, spot has hosted scores of legends since its 1977 opening. A sprawling lot catering to every skating whim, Kona has earned its place in the sacred echelon through unrivalled resilience. It is a must-visit for any skateboarding aficionado.

22. Venice Beach Skatepark

 Nestled on Los Angeles’ canonical beach, this purpose-built skatepark gets a bad rap. Many purists wrinkle their noses at a $3.4 million, municipally-funded tourist trap, but it is arguably the most recognisable skatepark in the world, set in a stunning location. (2) It must be on the list – even if some wince at its contrived genesis.

21. FDR Skatepark

A breeding ground for professional skaters, FDR is a grassroots monument to skaters’ tireless commitment. Situated underneath a highway, this skatepark was initially a municipal appeasement initiative, with city officials installing a few ramps to deflect from incessant efforts to suppress skating in nearby Love Park (more on that later). Skaters soon took over, though, creating a DIY idyll of guts and snarl.

20. Costco Gap

Sat between Laguna Niguel and Mission Viejo, California, an otherwise anonymous Costco warehouse has been feted in skateboarding alchemy. From street level, at a busy intersection, a raised wire fence encloses the parking lot, but a gnarly 14-foot drop lurks on the other side. (3) Ryan Sheckler ollied that gap as a teenager in 2004, at the zenith of his notoriety, and it has since become a behemoth of modern skate lore. The deceptive grassy knoll and harsh plunge onto hard asphalt make this spot legendary, and the sport’s most daring dudes yearn to conquer it.

19. The Encinitas City Hall Sign

The City Hall of Encinitas, California, sits on a wicked hill. To create a flat parking lot, concrete was poured into the gradient void at one end, forming an impossibly steep slope, atop which a municipal sign rests. Margera tail-dropped off the sign for a Toy Machine part in 1997, rolling away down the bank, and the spot has been etched into street skate infamy ever since. Few spots provoke such a stomach-churning adrenaline rush.

18. Santa Monica Triple Set

A cascading three-level staircase with three stairs on each plane, the Santa Monica Triple Set has been skated by professionals and upstarts alike since the discipline first emerged. Instantly recognisable, and a linchpin of many video parts, conquering the Triple Set is a rite of passage for grip tape urchins.

17. Hubba Hideout

This rather innocuous six-stair set is consecrated ground in skateboarding. In fact, this San Francisco spot named a whole type of skateable object: the hubba, or wide concrete ledges running parallel to a stair set. Derived from the Bay Area slang term ‘hubbas,’ meaning crack cocaine, this hideout was christened by the nefarious ragamuffins who once frequented it. (4) Skaters soon took over, though, before the notorious spot was demolished in 2011.

16. Burnside Skatepark

The original DIY skatepark, Burnside in Portland, Oregon, was fashioned entirely by skaters, who got busy when city officials stymied requests to build sanctioned skateboarding facilities. Enthusiasts commandeered a patch of wasteland underneath Burnside Bridge and crowdsourced materials to develop an impressive skatepark. Dudes even poured concrete themselves, forming obstacles with their bare hands, in a formidable show of resolve. (5) Eating humble pie, the city eventually recognised the skatepark, which remains skateable today. Blood, sweat and tears are soaked into every surface.

15. Davis Gap

A functional concrete monolith, Roessler Hall was built in 1971 to house the University of California, Davis, physics department. (6) Perched above a paved courtyard, the dreary square block features ivy hedgerows in a steep gap between a raised walkway and the campus grounds. Jamie Thomas ollied that gnarly gap – roughly equivalent to a 20-stair set – in 1999, and it has subsequently become a pilgrimage site. (7) Few have humbled it, however, adding to the brutal mystique.

14. Rowland Heights Water Towers

In 1997, Jeremy Wray rocked the skateboarding universe by ollying between two dreary water towers in Rowland Heights, near Los Angeles. Offering a 16-foot gap, 40 feet in the air, with unbounded steel sheets as a makeshift surface, the water towers were – and still are – an unthinkable challenge. (8) That Wray even envisioned such a sequence is incomprehensible. That he landed it, and rolled away, with a photographer capturing everything from the ground, may be the most astounding accomplishment in skateboarding history. That image – of Wray suspended in mid-air between the gargantuan cylinders – created arguably the most instantly memorable Thrasher cover ever. Nobody has tried to replicate it, and the towers are now gated, with security patrolling the perimeter, affirming its sequestered magnetism.

13. Sunset Carwash

A seemingly generic carwash on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, this spot was feted thanks to a steep concrete embankment enclosing its backside. Reachable from the carwash roof, said concrete embankment was first skated by John Cardiel in 1996. Soon thereafter, other skaters tackled the unconventional gap-to-slope, including Mark Gonzalez, whose emphatic slam at the spot deterred faint-hearted enthusiasts. Daring pros have returned to the spot periodically, however, unable to resist its enchanting challenge. Perhaps most famously, Milton Martinez kick-flipped from the roof to the bank in 2019, landing a classic Thrasher cover and Skater of the Year honours. Sadly – though perhaps sensibly – a metal guardrail was erected in 2021, making the spot unskateable, buts its imperious iconography looms in the annals, regardless. (9)

12. The Leap of Faith, Point Loma High School

An infamous 14-foot plunge over a handrail and 27 stairs, The Leap of Faith at Point Loma High School in San Diego, California, was canonised by Jamie Thomas in 1997. (10) Thomas failed to land the punishing drop ollie, but its inclusion in Zero Skateboards’ Thrill of It All video made the spot an instant classic, nonetheless. Nobody has ever landed The Leap of Faith and rolled away, lending the untamed beast a permanent allure. An elevator has since been added to the site, and while a gnarly drop still exists to its side, the run-up has also been disturbed by safety rails, leaving this as unconquered terrain. (11)

11. The Hollywood High 16

A steep 16-stair set divided by a central handrail, this block at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles is a near-ubiquitous segue in many classic video parts. Some of the greatest skaters of all-time have sessioned The Hollywood High 16, including Sheckler, Thomas, Margera, Nyjah Huston, Geoff Rowley, Yuto Horigome and Andrew Reynolds. Hard slams make this a thankless ordeal, but the spot is enduringly emblematic. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and to skater eyes, this is the epitome of gorgeousness.

10. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)

A fabled plaza outside a Catalan museum of contemporary art, MACBA has long maintained hallowed status among skateboarders, who are bedevilled by its sleek marble surface, inviting stair sets and deceptive columns. One of the go-to spots for European skaters, MACBA offers everything, serving as a real canvas for creative experimentation. Alas, in recent years, redevelopment plans have targeted skaters, with attempts to remodel the plaza into a green space with grass, trees and playgrounds. (12) Get there soon, then, before a slab of skate history is decimated.

9. Embarcadero

Another staple in the skateboarding hotbed of San Francisco, Embarcadero is a playground of infinite possibilities. With ledges, fountains, benches and bricked slopes, EMB beckons fantasy. Skate-stop measures are now ubiquitous, as are plans to demolish this old haunt entirely amid waterfront redevelopment, but the tradition remains unbreakable. Embarcadero lives on.

8. Love Park

A public park in central Philadelphia, Love Park was once the skateboarder’s ultimate easel, replete with rails, stairs, slopes and a distinctive fountain. An incubator of street skating ingenuity, Love drew dreamers from across the east coast, and their zeal in resisting continuous aggravation was exemplary. Skaters were regularly fined amid heavy-handed sting operations at Love, but they always returned, their passion indefatigable, to skate another day. Until 2016, that is, when the most skateable sections were demolished and rebuilt to prevent skaters once and for all. Philly’s vibrant skate scene remains in mourning. (13)

7. Brooklyn Banks

Once dubbed ‘the Mecca of New York skateboarding,’ Brooklyn Banks is a de facto reclaimed skatepark fashioned out of necessity by hardcore skaters. (14) Back in the 1980s, before official skateparks were built in New York City, locals discovered skateable bricked banks underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, on the Manhattan side, and began gravitating to the area. Gentrification has often threatened the spot, but grassroots fights for survival have persisted, making this a living monument to skateboarding’s soul.

6.  Wallenberg

An ominous four-stair – flat, wide and thick – at Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School in San Francisco, this weathered wreck has featured in many of skateboarding’s seminal video parts. Less than five feet tall, but more than 16 feet long, Wallenberg just looks gnarly – foreboding, falsely doable, yet brutally unforgiving. The mononym adds to its daunting reputation, hewn by stars like Andrew Reynolds and Chris Joslin, and mastering Wallenberg is a passport to immortality.

5. Carlsbad Gap 

During the Hawk-era pomp of skateboarding, this seemingly benign shelf lured pilgrims from around the world. For a decent stretch, indeed, it was the pinnacle of street skateboarding – an imposing reputation belying its humdrum appearance. Located at Carlsbad High School in California, this unique gap was formed by a grassy knoll beside an 11-stair set, creating a sharp drop and a lengthy chasm. A sloped uphill landing area added to the complexity, while epochal tricks by Wray, Kris Markovich and Rob Dydrek stoked its evocative miasma. Alas, the Carlsbad Gap was demolished in 2012 as the school was renovated. (15) That nothing was done to preserve such a skateboarding grail is an emblematic sadness. (16)

4. Southbank Undercroft

When the Southbank Centre, an eclectic arts hub in London, expanded its footprint in the late-1960, the building’s brutalist underbelly was left exposed – a relative afterthought. Where architects and everymen saw a vacuous concrete abyss, however, skaters saw a blank sheet of paper on which to create the ultimate urban skatepark. By osmosis, then, they came, like moths to a flame, transforming the inner concrete bowels – comprised of slopes and ledges, ramps and tiles, rails and shelves – into a renegade oasis. Sculpted by upstarts, the Southbank Undercroft became an essential skate hub by the 1970s. And from there, its essence has been preserved through tumultuous toil. Now a Grade II listed building, meaning it cannot be altered incongruously or demolished, this spot oozes heart and heritage. There may be no greater encapsulation of skateboarding’s anarchist ardour, in fact. Southbank drips with artistry.

3. The Lyon 25

Ali Boulala, l’enfant terrible of skateboarding, popularised this gnarly spot in Lyon, France, in his groundbreaking 2002 part, Sorry. A grotesque 25-stair set outside a perfunctory convention centre, The Lyon 25 has lurked as skateboarding’s white whale since the Swedish rebel first tried to ollie it, snapping his board in the process. Twelve years later, Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki tore his medial collateral ligament on his first attempt to beat this devilish drop. Unperturbed, Homoki returned to Lyon after recovering and landed a melon grab ollie down its most bloodcurdling haunt. No other skateboarder has completed a trick down the Lyon stairs, which are now closed off with barriers. (17) Still, skaters descend on the sainted spot, even if only to catch a glimpse of its awesome magnitude.

2. El Toro

Cited in hushed, reverential tones, El Toro is skateboarding’s Excalibur – a king-making litmus test attempted by many and accomplished by a lauded few. A 20-stair set at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, California, this sanctuary has been imbued with storied significance – converting mere mortals into heroes via a singular completed trick. Joslin tre-flipped El Toro in 2025, a feat heard ‘round the world, and that unprecedented achievement iced his claim to Skater of the Year honours. Lawsuits, gates and security guards have deterred everyday skaters, but El Toro remains the crème de la crème for professionals chasing legacy. (18) No active spot surpasses its might.

1.   The Dog Bowl

The genesis of skateboarding as we know it can be traced to post-War California, where surfers sought alternative pastimes on days when the waves fell flat. Some attached roller skate wheels to wooden planks and mimicked surfing on dry land, encouraging dedicated manufacturers to develop bespoke ‘skateboards,’ which evolved in shape and utility to something we would recognise today.

Always a niche hobby, skateboarding waned in popularity through the late-1960s, before enjoying a revival – and a transformation – in the 1970s. Formal contests and organised championships were introduced, with the Zephyr team – out of Santa Monica, California – pioneering a new, fluid style of skateboarding that revolutionised the art form. Once a stiff, mechanical and incremental pursuit, skateboarding became a languid, continuous flow in the Z-Boys’ wake. The raw aggression and inspired improvisation of new-age skaters like Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Stacy Peralta altered the paradigm forever.

A recurring feature in Skateboarder Magazine, ‘The Dogtown Chronicles’ celebrated the Z-Boys and documented their exploits, which mixed surfing verve with urban audacity. Increasingly adventurous, the Z-Boys experimented with street skating, favouring coastal paths and flat parking lots. Then, in a biblical quirk of fate, a punishing drought hit California in 1976. Spanning two years, with rainfall halving in some counties, a ban on filling swimming pools inadvertently birthed ‘vert’ skating, in which speed gained from the near-vertical walls enabled acrobatic tricks. (19) (20)

Prototype vert skaters hopped opportunistically from pool to pool – sometimes on municipal lots, but often in private backyards – while honing their nascent craft. Peeved landowners and police officers followed in hot pursuit, closing one skate spot after another, much to the chagrin of frustrated skaters who just wanted to express themselves. 

The endless game of cat-and-mouse was pierced in 1977, however, when Dino, a teenager with terminal cancer, asked his parents to drain their private pool so he could watch his friends skate. Dino’s dad complied, and the Z-Boys assumed residence of the kidney-shaped pool, by which family dogs lounged, ascribing its moniker. (21)

Some of the most legendary sessions in skateboarding history unfurled there, at 1525 San Vicente Boulevard, Santa Monica, California. (21) Perhaps the most legendary session came in August 1977, when Alva performed the first documented frontside air, grabbing his board in mid-air while rising above the Dog Bowl coping. News of the revolutionary move spread fast, and it partly inspired the invention of skateboarding’s foundational trick: the ollie, or hands-free aerial, first performed on a vert ramp by Alan ‘Ollie’ Gelfrand. Thereafter, Rodney Mullen adapted the ollie to flat ground in 1982, unlocking a corpus of street skating possibilities. (22) (23)

The original Dog Bowl is no longer intact, as house renovations encompassed the revered pool, but its place in the existential parable of skateboarding is forever enshrined. Indeed, tracing street skating back through the ollie, and further to embryonic aerial experimentation, The Dog Bowl can be considered Ground Zero for the kind of skateboarding we know and love today. Without it, and without those who tore up its vertical walls, none of the other sacred spots may have happened. There would have been no need – no urge or inclination – without the groundbreaking Dog Bowl. May its memory shine forever.

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And so, there you have it; my best attempt at honouring the most sacred skate spots of all-time. Again, you will almost certainly disagree with my ranking, but within that inevitability resides a kernel of symbolism. Every skater has a subjective view of what can be done in a spot, and that is beautiful. That is poetry. That is art.

Alas, while compiling this list, I was struck by just how many of the spots have been demolished, restricted or remodelled merely to stop skaters exercising their passion. Yes, there are valid arguments within that wider debate around safety, security and proprietor rights – all topics for another day. But there is a certain tragedy in nostalgia denied; a very specific – and under-explored – form of mournful ennui.

Where other sports, religions and art forms preserve and worship their holy sites, skateboarding finds its hardscrabble heritage vandalised by antagonistic forces – an undetected irony that foments frustration. That more than a quarter of the spots on this list are no longer skateable, and that many of the others can only be sessioned with restrictive caveats, is a crying shame. There must be more respect for the genius of rebellious urban creativity.

To that end, you never know when the next fabled spot will be envisioned by somebody and turned into a thing. This list contains movie sets and mansions; parking lots and municipal signs; stairs and ledges and roofs and rails. And just as somebody once drove past two monolithic water towers and thought to ollie between them via some divine artistic paroxysm, somebody else may happen upon an unremarkable assemblage of brick, mortar and steel destined to host a life-giving skate line. Such is the self-renewing magic of skateboarding.

Maybe I can be that person one day. I got my board out again while researching and writing this article, rediscovering a seam of inspiration. I have been wobbling in the backyard and may soon graduate to the driveway. Pushing more than a few feet remains an arduous ordeal, but I’m determined to find a way. I’m determined to become competent – even if I’m just that old guy rolling around the local skatepark. And I will visit that skatepark eventually, when doing so is not an automatic hospital hazard, before finally venturing onto the streets. There’s a brilliant set of kerbs, handrails and slopes in a cinema car park nearby. That is my Roman Empire.

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