The SkateApp Blog
City guides and analysis built from the spots mapped on SkateApp: where the street spots cluster, how park-to-street ratios differ between cities, and how to plan a trip around what is actually there.
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- Amsterdam and Rotterdam Skate Spots: One Trip
We have 134 spots mapped in Amsterdam and 32 in Rotterdam, and the two cities are an hour apart by train. Here is how to skate both on one trip.
- Barcelona Skate Spots: A Walkable One-Day Route
A one-day Barcelona skate route ordered by map, not by ranking. 22 spots from Sants station to Paral·lel, roughly 8 km, plus the detours it skips.
- Berlin Skate Spots: Parks and Street in One Day
Berlin's 119 mapped spots split 78 street, 19 park, 18 shop, the most even spread of any big city in our data. Here is how to session both in a day.
- Skate Spot Density: 20 World Cities Ranked
We measured the distance between 3,025 mapped skate spots in 20 cities. The city with the most spots finished 17th. Full method, table and caveats.
- European Skate Cities Compared by the Numbers
Eleven European cities, 1,414 mapped skate spots, ranked by density and type mix rather than raw count. Plus where our data is thin.
- Skate Spots in Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux
339 mapped spots across three French cities that aren't Paris, with the geography that explains why each one skates the way it does.
- Los Angeles Skate Spots, Grouped by Cluster
The 508 Los Angeles spots on SkateApp sorted into nine real geographic clusters, with measured distances so you know what you can skate in one session.
- Montréal & Toronto Skate Spots: A Short Season
Montréal and Toronto have five times the skatepark ratio of San Francisco. Here is what that says about skating two cities that lose months to winter.
- Paris Skate Spots: 378 Street Spots, 22 Parks
Paris has 438 mapped spots and 86% of them are street. Here is what that ratio does to how you skate the city, with the clusters worth walking.
- San Francisco Skate Spots by Terrain
227 mapped spots in San Francisco, organised by the ground they sit on: the bay-fill flats, the Nob Hill grades, the Civic Center shelf and the avenues.
- "Seattle Skate Spots: Skating a City That Rains"
"Three indoor spots out of 142 mapped in Seattle. Where the roofs are, which parks drain, and how to use a short dry window without wasting it driving."
- Street Spots vs. Skateparks Across 20 Cities
Atlanta has 82 street spots and one skatepark. Rotterdam has 19 and seven. We tested whether climate explains the gap, and found something else.