Local Park Renovations Include New Skateboard Park

Skateboarders in Mount Vernon will soon have a place to catch air as the Fairfax County Park Authority recently gave the green light to construction of the skate park at Mount Vernon Woods Park. If all goes well, the new skate park will be open some time in late winter, just in time for the spring skating season.

This park in Mount Vernon is newly renovated and the skate park has been part of the plan for years but it was always designated to be built later in the park schedule which FCPA calls “Phase II.” Phase I included a playground, fitness area, multisport court, soccer field, picnic shelter and parking lot.

The skate park is being built by Spohn Ranch Skateparks, a company in California that builds skateparks all over the country, with a large concentration in the west. The closest one Spohn Ranch built here is the Lake Fairfax Skatepark in Reston and the Eric Brown Skate Plaza in Leesburg.

This California-based company began with founder Aaron Spohn’s backyard half-pipe and has grown substantially.