Welcome to: Benny's Brisbane Skateboard Directory The site for skaters in Brisbane, Australia Compiled by Mark Brimson     Acacia Ridge Skate Park   South West Brisbane   Built: 1997   Skate park: Achievement St (James Freney Park) Mini ramp: Mortimer Rd (Mortimer Road Reserve)   There was a mini ramp from the eighties in the P.C.Y.C at Acacia Ridge for a long time. It was the usual ramp at that time, 6ft high, 15ft wide, looking like the Paddington ramp and many others around the place. At one stage, the complex had a small street course as well, but that is all well in the past now. The ramp was moved to where it is now in Mortimer Rd, resurfaced in the standard metal with a painted surface and left and forgotten by most.   The street orientated skate park at James Freney Park went in around the start of the new boom of skateboarding in the mid ninties, but was relatively unknown as a skate park for quite a while. It has a very plain layout, and a little too much bitumen in between ramps. At one end, there is a big mellow metal quarter, that faces onto a low bank fun box arrangement, with a slappy grind rail going down one side. Running round most of the place is a shaped quarter that starts and ends in nothing but gets up to about 4ft in the main section. There is a small grind block, just right for anyone to skate, set off to the other side. From time to time, there are brought in obstacles, but the place is not so good now that the bitumen has sunk, making a bit of a bump between ramps and flat. This is just something I heard from someone who was there recently, so don't take my word on it.   Pic 1 of the street park   Pic 2 of the same, from a different side   A number of competitions have been held there in the last couple of years, most of which you can read about in the COMPS page.       email me at:   mbrimson@yahoo.com ***** (click here to send me mail) *****   Click the "BACK" button to return to the previous menu.