City of El Paso skateparks
The City of El Paso currently owns and operates 11 public skateparks – 5 concrete builds, 6 modular ramp layouts.
Opened in March 2023, Carolina was the City’s first custom concrete skatepark. After EPSA formed in 2007, the City started listening to skater input and stopped spending money on modular ramps.
More concrete followed with Westside Community in 2009, Mountain View in 2012, Northeast Regional in 2014, and unfortunately, a poorly executed “ramp & slab demolition-to-crappy concrete build” at Dick Shinault in 2023.
El Paso County skateparks
In 2025, El Paso County stepped up their game by converting a trio of old ramp slabs to above-ground concrete – all 3 designed by Newline and built by Hardcore Shotcrete crews. The final price tag of $1.3 million each was a HUGE sticker shock, as Newline designs were aimed to hit the $333k mark? Word is no qualified skatepark builders bid on the RFP, so…the County found A LOT of extra cash to spend.
The County quiver also includes 4 modular ramp parks – a couple of Rhino Ramp layouts, a True Ride set up in Fabens and there’s some Skatewave stuff in Anthony, TX.
Horizon City, TX skatepark
If you dig Street League Skateboarding, this well-constructed course is for you!
Located about 25 miles east of El Paso proper, this 7,000 square footer offers 7 lanes of fun, challenging street obstacles.
Designed by SITE Design Group and built by Spohn Ranch for an estimated $485k in 2022. Just Google Desmond Corcoran Park and you’re there.
Sunland Park NM skate plaza
Neighboring Sunland Park, New Mexico offers a massive 36,000 square foot Rob Dyrdek-designed DC skate plaza.
Chaparral, NM pump track
Pivot Custom Skateparks has laid down some of the best asphalt pump tracks in New Mexico and this one might take the gold medal.
Less than 10 minutes drive from Northeast El Paso, it definitely worth the trip!
Adjacent to the pumper, a few clackity Spohn Ranch metal ramps.
Las Cruces NM skateparks
The City of Las Cruces was the first to build a concrete park in the late 90’s – skaters rallied and raised $250k in money and donations for a 27,000 square foot facility that was demolished and rebuilt with a smaller footprint by Spohn Ranch in 2024.
Years later, the new build remains fenced off and shrouded in controversy thanks to unexplained technicalities enforced by city bureaucrats. On the positive? The cops don’t arrest, they just kick you out.
In 2025, Las Cruces added a small Grindline build at East Mesa.
Mesquite, NM skatepark
Just 12 miles south of Cruces, Mesquite NM did wonders with a $120k concrete addition in 2023 with EPSA guidance and expertise. Also features some Spohn Ranch metal ramps. Owned and operated by Dona Ana County.
Tigua skatepark
In 2015, the Tigua Indian tribe built and opened the 21,000 square foot Pakitu Skate Plaza on reservation land in the Lower Valley.
Fort Bliss skateparks
Quietly in 2013, the expanding eastside of the Fort Bliss Army Base opened a rough-built concrete skatepark that is open to the public.
Last we knew, there are 2 other ramp skateparks on Ft. Bliss at the YouthPlex (ARC ramps) and at the Milam Youth Activities Center (steel) but both are restricted for use by military families.
El Paso skatepark history
In 1977, El Paso’s first skateboard park, Earth Surf, was built in Northeast El Paso near Parkland High School. It was the first of two pay-to-play concrete parks with Desert Surfing opening soon after at the corner of Montana and Wedgewood on the eastside. Neither lasted more than several years before waning interest and rising insurance costs beckoned the bulldozers.
A series of ramp parks would fill the gap between then and now. In the 1980’s Tim Fulmer embraced the vert era building Sun City Skatepark at Mountain Shadow Lakes. The late 90’s saw ramp action at the Northeast YMCA and Blade ‘N Skate.
It’s fun to reminisce, so why not?