{"id":16104,"date":"2021-06-02T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=16104"},"modified":"2021-06-01T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:56:28","slug":"ketchums-skatepark-goes-scooter-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/ketchums-skatepark-goes-scooter-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketchum\u2019s Skatepark Goes Scooter-Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eric Valentine<\/em><\/p>\n

Both Valley skateparks\u2014Guy Coles Skate Park in Ketchum and Hailey Skatepark in, you guessed it, Hailey\u2014are now scooter-friendly, although both Valley skateparks have placed specific limitations and requirements on what is and isn\u2019t allowed.<\/p>\n

The City of Ketchum, which has been the one to most recently update its policies, has now done its part to make people aware of it all. On May 18, the city held a sign-unveiling ceremony\u2014with the granddaughter of one-time Ketchum mayor Guy Coles in attendance\u2014to bring attention to the new policy that scooters are officially OK to ride at the facility, but only before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to honor the original vision of the park in that it was meant for skateboarding, but we wanted to be inclusive, too,\u201d Ketchum mayor Neil Bradshaw said.<\/p>\n

The park project began in 1994 back when scooter technology wasn\u2019t exactly skatepark-ready.<\/p>\n

Over in Hailey, the park has a more liberal curfew, 7 p.m., but a more restrictive access. Scooter riders cannot use the \u201cbowl\u201d portion of the facility, only the flatter space. And, they must have a park pass, acquired by passing a skills test.<\/p>\n

Pretty \u2018Rad\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Ketchum\u2019s skater haven is not without its own restrictions. And the signage at the park makes it clear, and cool. Rather than produce a \u201ctypical\u201d city-code type of sign, the city decided to outsource the design to a graphic designer Bradshaw works with on his monthly \u201cMayor\u2019s Missive\u201d and other projects.<\/p>\n

The result was two \u201cunveiling ceremony worthy\u201d full-color signs. One is a nod to Mayor Coles\u2019 efforts to make the park a reality. It includes a four-paragraph history as well as a visual timeline of the park\u2019s development. The second sign is all about the rules, but done in the coolest way possible, with funky fonts, clever headlines, etc. To let skateboard, rollerblade, and scooter users know they are all welcome, the headline reads \u201cABSOLUTELY\u201d and the disclaimer, use-at-your-own-risk verbiage reads, \u201cHEADS UP!\u201d For the rules and regulations sections, those are topped off with \u201cYes Please\u201d and \u201cNo Thanks\u201d headers. \u201cHuge Egos\u201d is one thing not allowed, as are \u201cMarathon Runs\u201d\u2014the term for doing multiple laps at a skatepark without letting the next user have his or her turn.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not your normal city-approved signage, but Guy Coles Skate Park is not your normal skatepark, either. Image credit: City of Ketchum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Eric Valentine Both Valley skateparks\u2014Guy Coles Skate Park in Ketchum and Hailey Skatepark in, you guessed it, Hailey\u2014are now scooter-friendly, although both Valley skateparks have placed specific limitations and requirements on what is and isn\u2019t allowed. The City of Ketchum, which has been the one to most recently update its policies, has now done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,86,90,18,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-ketchum","9":"category-municipal","10":"category-news","11":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16111,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions\/16111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}