Updated (2017) photos and a street area added to the park.






















This park was built when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. I had heard about it but this was my first visit. If you know it's history please email me, I'd love to learn about it.

Roger wrote me, "I skated that back when it was first built in the summer of '77. I was working an internship at the local paper mill for a summer/fall/winter while I was going to college in eastern Washington. It was pretty much all day sessions every Sat/Sun there. Surprised it is still there, looks a little worse for the wear but just about like it did in the day, sans the big tree. Lots of fun times were had there, thanks for the photos."


Mark Sellman ripping up the snake run at Longview in 1977!

(Click photo for larger image) From Scott Barnes: "There used to be a television show on KOMO TV in Seattle, called 'How Come?" They had mentioned that there were no skate parks in Washington state, so I fired off a letter, and a couple of weeks later received a phone call. They came down in 1977 or so, and filmed a segment for the show. It was one of the coolest things I've ever been involved with. I even got to hold a 30-pound video camera and ride down the snake run with it. After that segment aired, we had all kinds of visitors coming down from Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle. In this photo, I am wearing my team shirt from Ride On Skateboards, which briefly had a demo team and skate shop in Longview!"

Address:
Longview, Washington Skatepark
2750 Douglas St.
Longview, WA 98632