Welcome to: Benny's Brisbane Skateboard Directory The site for skaters in Brisbane, Australia Compiled by Mark Brimson     Maleney Skate Park   2 hrs north west of Brisbane   Built: 1999   Address: no street address, Maleney Show Grounds   It is a little off the beaten track, but the Maleney Skate Park is certainly worth the extra petrol money you put in. I don't know of any other way to get there - bus possibly, but car is the best. Maleney is a fair way inland from the Caloundra area, being up high in the mountainous area that gives it a very wet climate. If you go there, many of the locals don't know about a skate park but they do know where the show grounds is, and once there, just head round the ring road until you see the skate park (on the left side of the big oval as you look from the main road). There are no shops in the show grounds, but plenty back out on the main street 5 mins or less drive down the road. I think there was a water fountain there but I am not sure, so be prepared and take a bottle or two anyway.   First thing you would probably see when you get into the grounds is the now standard metal half pipe for the inland towns (see Toowoomba and Nambour), light green in colour with nice curves and little extensions (I think) 5ft - 6ft high. It stands alone, a little way to the right of the concrete street area. There looked to be some really old bowl like structure there from the dinosaur years which they have kept and built around, enclosing it at one end, but between old bowl and half pipe, there is a very nice compact but not small construction of a complete street course. With a bank running along the bowl end, and a bowl shaped quarter running round the other, this encloses a hip bank on one side and a banked fun box with a rail running along and down it on the other side, against an unobtrusive dividing barrier. There were a few other things, including a kids area that didn't look too good, but I don't recall that much else of the park. All I know is that it was a lot of fun to skate, nothing being too big or small - all between 3ft and 5ft in height, with enough room to kick in between obstacles and good long lines up and down the rectangular shaped park. Go there!!!!   (no pics yet)     email me at:   mbrimson@yahoo.com ***** (click here to send me mail) *****   Click the "BACK" button to return to the previous menu.