Fairmont Skatepark (Sugarhouse) - Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

Fairmont is a great park. There is a good street area which includes two nice handrails, banks, ledges, hips, a step up, a hubba and a 6 ft. quarter pipe next to a flat bank roll-in. The street area is ideal for all levels of ability, and the banked section provides a perfect introduction to transition skating for beginners. Fairmonts real asset is its vert terrain, which caters to higher end transition skating. It has a large vert bowl complex which begins at one end as a 6 ft. half pipe, and then snakes its way into an 8 ft. deep round bowl at the other end. The entire bowl complex is lined with nice metal coping, and has an infinite number of lines to ride- Good for hours of nonstop carving, grinding and pumping fun. Next to the main bowl complex is a peanut-shaped, pool-like bowl that has a 5 ft. deep, round, shallow end which runs into a 10 ft. deep, square-cornered deep end. Again, the bowl is lined with nice metal coping. This "Peanut Bowl" is the real deal, and it is easy to generate speed in the "scary fast" zone while skating it. This is a really good bowl, but it could have been a great bowl if the deep end was round instead of squared. Unfortunately Fairmont does not yet have lights for night skating, but there is hope that the City Council will approve lighting for next year.

- Chris C.

Really good park for more advanced skaters/rollerbladers because everything is moderately big. Good Handrail and hubbas also really good 12 ft swimming pool bowl and Step-up

(posted 8/25/04) The Salt Lake City park is now open or east 3/4 of it is. When the city announced the contractor pretty much everyone said the were going to fuck it up and they did, so for the last 3 months it's been sitting there done but tied up it arguments about what to do. They finally decided to fence of the deep bowl and tear it out to be repoured and go ahead an open rest of the park. The flowbowl area is by no means not without flaws but it is skateable and kinda fun. I'd say the park is a 6-7 a few years back it would have been higher but with parks like Carbondale CO and Klamath Falls OR being built it's not real creative. - B. Baade

(posted 7/6/04) Brand new "Site Design" Designed park. Not open yet, the City went with the lowest contractor and they blew it in the big bowl. It has no vert, yet 10' deep. I guess they are in litigation over the bad pour the cement guys did. Good looking flow bowl with Site Design features. Current skatepark street area, with 2 rails, london gap, hips, a hubba and other ledges.