Lakeside Garden to house Singapore's largest outdoor skate park
Key features include parkour park, bouldering wall, pump track with humps, and five skate pods
SINGAPORE — The largest outdoor skate park in Singapore opened at Lakeside Garden on Saturday (1 April) with features such as a parkour park, a bouldering wall, a pump track with humps and five skate pods for different skill levels.
The 17,000 square-metre SkatePark @ Lakeside Garden was designed with sporting communities, and is one of the highlights of the seven-hectare northern section of the garden at Jurong Lake, near the Lakeside MRT station.
It is the first skate park in Singapore with a parkour park, where enthusiasts will be able to hang from bars, scale walls and jump off platforms.
The park also has a three-metre-tall and nine-metre-long bouldering wall, as well as 280m-long pump track with humps for skateboarders or BMX bicycle riders to practise on. Its five skate pods catered for different skill levels, and one of them is a sheltered pod for all-weather use.
"It’s just phenomenal how much effort, feedback and thinking went into the creation of this park and I am so happy to see it finally come alive," skateboard enthusiast Vanessa Mostafa told Yahoo News Singapore.
The 37-year-old first picked up skateboarding a year ago and is eager to explore the new skate park this week. She has also noticed a steady increase of skateboarders of all ages since its introduction as an official Olympic sport during the 2020 Tokyo Games.
"There’s this amazing community of folks of both kids and adults alike whenever I go for skateboarding lessons. It’s such a kindred and 'gotong royong' (community cooperation) sort of community," she said.
Other new facilities
Other new amenities of the Lakeside Gardens include the Rainforest Pavilion, which will house a cafeteria which sells food, drinks, skateboards and other equipment when it opens in early April. It will also rent out boards and offer skateboarding lessons.
It also has a 4,000-square-meter Lakeside Green lawn area that can be used for performances and events.
SkatePark at Lakeside Garden is open to the public from 8am to 10pm, from Tuesdays to Sundays. It is closed every Monday for maintenance, and on Tuesdays if the preceding Monday is a public holiday.
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