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The park turns 34 on Halloween. Jaymeer is a board member and muralist for the Burnside Skatepark. He joins us to share more on the history and impact the park has had in Portland and around the ...
Underneath Portland, Oregon's Burnside Bridge is one of the nation's meccas for skateboarding. What started 26 years ago, this "do it yourself" concrete skatepark has become part of the Portland lore.
Portland; Family, friends mourn Portland skateboarder who ‘lit up Burnside skate park with positivity’ as drownings claim more lives. Updated: ; Jul. 21, 2021, 2: ...
Burnside Skatepark, hand-built illegally by skateboarders in 1990 underneath the Burnside Bridge, is now one of Portland's most iconic empty spaces.
"Burnside's not going anywhere," says Sage Bolyard, a skater who's been a part of the park for almost all of its 25-year existence. "We're just worried about having to continually fight for it." ...
The Burnside Skatepark is located in Portland, Oregon, and started in 1990 as an illegal, hand-built skatepark underneath the Burnside Bridge. The area was once overrun with drug addicts and ...
In 1990, construction on a DIY skatepark in Portland, Ore., began underneath the Burnside Bridge, in the northeast part of town. Without the permission of the city, the local skateboard community ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — An unknown amount of sewage was accidentally released onto the pavement under the west side of Portland's Burnside Bridge at Waterfront Park on Monday morning.
PORTLAND, Ore. — In Tom McCall Waterfront Park on the northwest side of the Burnside Bridge, engineers began drilling a 125-foot test shaft as part of crucial seismic testing for Portland's ...