Surferdrome - Sarasota, FL

 
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Surferdrome - Sarasota, FL

General Information

Skatepark Name
Surferdrome
BMX
  • no
Opening Date
December 17, 1976
Open / Closed
  • Closed
Lights
no
Restrooms
yes
Free or Pay
pay
Inside or Outside
outside
Are Pads Required?
yes
Riding Surface?
concrete

Location

Address
1925, 12th Street, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, 34236, United States
Postal Code
34236
Latitude
27.35
Longitude
-82.53
City
Sarasota

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Managment
  • Private

An early park doomed to a short life for its lack of vert

Trucker Bruce Clark leased 2.5 acres of land from the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport to build the efficiently-designed Surferdrome (also called "Surferdrome USA"). The park was simply a 20-foot high mound with two runs each containing a single banked turn, one breaking left and the other breaking right.

While initially popular, business tapered off for the park within the first year.

"I was just too safety-minded when I built it...They ride vertical walls in swimming pools. That's what they want --the radical stuff," Clark told the Bradenton Herald in 1977.

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Surferdrome - Sarasota, FL
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