The Walnut Creek Skate Park is located at the corner of Heather Drive and Marchbanks Drive in Heather Farm Park, and is across from the Clarke Swim Center. Admission is free. Hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The City requires that all skaters must wear a helmet and knee AND elbow pads in order to use the park. Please see the rules.

The Skate Park Hotline is 925-256-3584. The hotline has up-to-date information on whether the park is open.

More than 500 people attended the Grand Opening of the Walnut Creek Skate Park in Heather Farm Park on Nov. 12, 2005. The opening, which featured pro vert skater Holly Lyons (see photos at right), capped seven months of construction.

The Friends of the Skate Park, a non-profit, 501©3 fundraising group in partnership with the Walnut Creek Fountain for Youth Foundation, needs help to raise the funds to finish the park.

The Friends of the Skate Park needs to raise the balance of the $90,000 total cost to light the Skate Park, as well as to install a water fountain and benches. To date the Friends of the Skate Park have $35,000 cash in hand from its fundraising efforts.

Thanks to the following major sponsors:

The City of Walnut Creek, who is building the Skate Park!

The Sunrise Rotary in Walnut Creek has donated $10,000 to the Skate Park and has adopted the Skate Park as their 2005 Centennial Project!

The Walnut Creek Soccer Club has donated $5,000 to the Skate Park efforts!

Copeland Sports has donated $5,000 to light the park!

And Toyota Walnut Creek has donated $1,000.

You could be a donor, too! For information, call 925-286-3636. To find out more on how to make a donation, click here.

The Skate Park will be a welcomed addition to the varied amenities in Heather Farm Park which include lighted sports fields, tennis center, aquatics center, equestrian center as well as walking paths, a nature area and the garden center.

The Friends of the Skate Park, in partnership with the Walnut Creek Fountain for Youth Foundation, is launching several fundraising opportunities. They include owning a piece of the park, personal inscription tiles and a major donor plaque at the Skate Park entrance.

The design firm of Purkiss-Rose-RSI of Fullerton, CA designed the Skate Park along with area skaters during 3 group design sessions. Among its unique features are elements for street skaters and vertical skaters, with rails, spines and bowls. The Phase II design of the Skate Park includes a pool featuring actual pool coping and tile. When funded, Walnut Creek will have the only skate park of its kind in Northern California.

For more information on the skate park, contact Todd Trimble, Sr. Recreation Supervisor at 943-5899, ext.420 or e-mail him at trimble@walnut-creek.org.