Skating at Morgan Junction Park’s expansion site? Survey time

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Will skating officially be in the Morgan Junction Park expansion‘s future? Last Sunday during the Morgan Junction Community Festival, community volunteers talked about it with visitors – and hosted a Build-A-Board station. Josh Radick sent photos and tells WSB, “We were able to build and distribute 15 complete skateboards, 10 skateboard decks, and countless wheel and bearing combos to kids in the community!”

Also at the festival was Seattle Parks, talking to visitors about the site. Josh notes, “The voting on-site indicated that there is definitely an interest to have skateboarding included at Morgan Junction, along with a slew of other active space options for our community.”

Now it’s time for online opinion sampling – Parks promised to launch an online survey after the festival, and it went live at week’s end. The survey features elements from the original design from the site – and new ones like the possibility of accommodating skating – and asks you to pick three you’d like to see. Go here to answer the survey.

Meantime, the site – which previously held a mini-mart and dry cleaner – is due for soil cleanup starting later this year, and park development in 2025. As for the skating advocates, Radick tells WSB, “We hope to do more build-a-board events this summer.”

G June 25, 2023 (7:29 am)

I’m glad to see the city is taking public opinion on this and hope it goes in the direction of an all-wheels park. While not sanctioned, it’s popularity as an unofficial skate park showed there’s a demand.

We’re lucky that we have such a diversity of park options nearby–Lincoln, Solstice, and Lowman Beach are all fantastic. Making this a skate/bike park would just add to the options for kids in the neighborhood.

Orb June 25, 2023 (10:40 am)

A skatepark would be welcomed! Better than what is sitting there now.

Cricket June 25, 2023 (5:04 pm)

Yes on skate dot! Love this use for this difficult to fully utilize park. Kind of reminds me of the park space across from the QFC on Alaska, so let’s see what happens..

E June 25, 2023 (11:04 pm)

Let the kids skate!!!

LetthekidsskateMJ June 26, 2023 (11:07 am)

I may be a little biased, mostly because of all the smiling kids I saw at the event, and the level of thanks that local parents showed for the boards and interest in improving their kid’s access to active play. The proposed plan makes this location a perfect spot for a skate dot, with the ability to mitigate sound to the apartments at the north end of the Parks property. I hope to see MANY more smiling faces at this location in the years to come, and I think a skate dot will provide just that!

Elliot June 26, 2023 (1:27 pm)

West Seattle’s rich community of families and skaters is the perfect place for a skate spot in this location

snowskier June 26, 2023 (3:15 pm)

Great way to activate the space. So close to bus lines for safe and easy access by kids.

James June 27, 2023 (8:15 am)

Less dog parks and more skate parks!!!

Tim June 27, 2023 (9:22 am)

yes, for the love of god, kids need more places to play since the streets are untrustworthy and full of cars driving way too fast.

April June 27, 2023 (10:00 am)

This is a great idea! More dog parks & Skate Parks!!!

Sillygoose June 28, 2023 (2:01 pm)

I support a skate park for our youth or whomever would enjoy it. I think we can all agree that the parks department is buried in the list of up keep/landscaping that is currently not being done to our local parks. So it only makes sense not to add another project to this list of upkeep. Pour some concrete add a few benches and LET THE KIDS SKATE!!!

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