Plaza 3D rendering
The plaza features a lot of stairs, rails, ledges and stamped concrete bank accents. The circular center layout is terraced with 3 levels and there’s plenty of surrounding flat for practicing flippy tricks.
The backside includes a tiny, banked snake run and a few stand alone obstacles.
Word is legendary New York area skater Quim Cardona chimed in on the design, along with Joaquim from Organics.
Disrepair – the old skatepark
It’s an understatement to say the concrete skatepark was a serious upgrade.
If you wanted to ride on the Rez back in January 2014, this is what you saw – weathered wooden ramps on a tennis court next to the Socorro Entertainment Center.
The masonite top surface of the mini ramp was warped, bloated and breaking off at the seams – not a safe riding situation. There was also a rail and some boxes (not pictured) that didn’t look much better.
New construction
Plaza construction went down in Summer 2015 with the build well-documented by @tiguashorty on Instagram.
Most of the concrete flatwork turned out pretty good, but expert eyes quickly spy plenty of flaws like tranny kinks and seaming issues – this crew was obviously not experienced in the finer points of modern skatepark building.
Considering this was a summer months build with huge concrete pours, you know it wasn’t easy but they pulled it off.
Pakitu name
FYI – the official name of this place is the Pakitu Skate Plaza and man do these guys have some cool-looking logos.
The name has an interesting translation – “Pa” means pumpkin, “Ki” means our, and “Tu” means village…so Pakitu = Our Pumpkin Village.
Search #Pakituskatepark online for more!
Pakitu contests
If you like contests, you’ll love these guys.
Seems like they have Best Run & Best Trick events every few months and the prizes are awesome with cash included.
They’re real good at posting all the latest stuff on their Pakitu Skate Plaza Facebook page.
Tim Navarette
The Pakitu Skate Plaza officially opened on August 22, 2015 with an all-day contest at Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo. It was a first class event with free food and door prizes.
Nobody was ripping harder than Tim Navarette who scored first place in the advanced division with big moves like this!
Get there
The Pakitu Skate Plaza is located on the left side of the entry road (Tiwa Blvd.) to the Socorro Entertainment Center, same place that holds all those free rock concerts.
Address proper is 11200 Santos Sanchez Street, Socorro TX, 79927.