Those who skateboard, rollerblade and bmx are welcome to Swede Hill Park in Big Rapids on Saturday, July 30th to participate in a Skate Park meet up.

The event will take place from noon until 3pm, there will also be local vendors selling food and drinks.

“Just like the skate meet up back on April 30th, It's really just a space to come skate, hangout, get to know the other skaters in the community,  and learn more about the project.” Jessie Black, Community Development specialist, City of Big Rapids said. “We are going to have some prints of the design renderings for people to look at that we've been working with American Ramp Company on.” 

The idea of a skate park in Big Rapids has been thrown around for years but nothing really got past the idea phase until last year.

Jessie Black says the skate park project really gained momentum when they won a $25,000 grant through the Consumers Energy Foundation’s 2022 Put Your Town on the Map contest.
 

“Winning the top prize in the contest really kind of opened the floodgates of enthusiasm and it was making the project that much more realistic and so once we started seeing that momentum and people started believing OK, this this could really happen now and it's really cool to see all across the community the widespread support for this project.”