Visit these popular skate parks in NJ this summer

New Jersey isn’t exactly the first state you think of when it comes to skateboarding, but it’s more popular here than you think.

My 3 year old son has a lot of interests right now and they change every day, but he’s becoming more intrigued by active sports, and the other day he asked me for a skateboard.

As a millennial, the only thing I know about skateboarding is Tony Hawk’s video game Pro Skater and the big, chunky Element skate shoes.

And my son is 3, not 13. Do you know how much a skateboard costs? So I went to Five Below.

But there’s a chance he might want to continue this as he gets older and in addition to learning to skate in our driveway, I started looking for the nearest skate park in our area.

It turns out there’s a ton across the state, who would have thought?

If you’re a skateboarder or have a little one interested, check out some of the popular skate parks in the Garden State that you can visit:

Paterson Skate Park

Court Skate Park in Montclair

Hopatcong Skate Park

Ice Rink Skate Park in Jersey City

Woodland Park Skate Park

Clifton Skate Zone

West Windsor Skate Park

Own skate park

South Brunswick Skate Park

Middlebush Park Skate Park in Somerset

Jackson Skate Park

Freedom Skate Park in Trenton

Skatepark Neptunus

Restart Highlands Skatepark

7 Presidents Skate Park in Long Branch

Sea Isle City Skate Park

Leonardo Skate Park at Bill Kunkel Memorial Park

Level Up Skate Park in Brick

Ocean City Skate Park

Edward Thornton Community Center Skate Park in Little Egg Harbor

Pennsauken Skate Park

Back Sov Skate Park in Atlantic City

The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of Kristen, producer of New Jersey 101.5’s Morning Show. All opinions expressed are her own.

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