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Imagine if you went to a public park and started riding your skateboard down the fucking slide while little kids were trying to play there. People would call the cops! And you know what? They'd be justified because that ain't what the fucking slide was made for and it endangers the kids! So why do they think it's okay to let their toddlers ride tricycles in a freaking bowl?? It wasn't made for that!
You know what might be a rad idea, though? You could paint the curb outside of your house so it would grind nice but paint it the same color it already is. Just get Home Depot to match the color of the concrete so the city or hoa or whoever won't notice and freak out on you. Hmmm...
Anyway, that sucks. Sorry to hear you've lost your skatepark. Probably the best thing to do is organize a time when you and as many buddies as possible can all go there at the same time and take over the place. Crowd out the non-skaters if you can.
The riot of it all is, that there are usually perfectly good playgrounds for little ones right next to the skate park. Little kids that can't ride on their own, on a regular BMX bike or a two wheeled scooter or a normal skate board, who aren't old enough to understand the rules of the park and what a "line" is, have NO BUSINESS being there.
I think that a good solution that city's could look into would be a small, age appropriate skate park next to the playground and/or the bigger skate park. They also need to just man up and post signs that no one under the age of 5 is allowed and that children 5-8 years of age need to be attended to (meaning parents just can't visit or camp out on their phones). There are weight, age and height rules at Disney Land, there should be rules at the city skate parks.
Until my youngest could understand and navigate the skate park, my husband (a bowl rider) and/or myself, would watch him and help him to see the other skater's lines, and know when was a good time for him to start riding. That's called parenting. I don't think it's unreasonable of the riders at the skate park to one, be concerned, and two, be angry at parents for not being more considerate and safety conscious. I'd like to say to parents of young kids out there, it's not all about you. Stop being selfish.
The skate parks around here are FULL of young kids just fuckin around, young girls in short shorts using the park for bench seating while they share cigarettes and play on their phones. Not to mention as @WakeInFright said, as an older person I can't help but feel somewhat humiliated to be an older person skating there as though I'm a predator or something.
I'll stick to curbs, lots and quieter places thank you.
One thing I find here is almost everyone now is kind of fucked up. Its hard to find some well balanced people to share public space with, especially at skateparks. Nearly everyone is very distrusting and operating from a mode of fear.
Oddly, the pre/early teen scooter kids that all look like Justin Beiber are often fairly normal as they haven't been fucked up yet, whereas a lot of the older teens give off bad vibes. Usually the foreign tourists who skate are inviting as they want to make new friends, and the older guys without kids are cool too.
Often skater dads are too preoccupied with their mini me to show vibe courtesy to other skaters, sure they are legalistic about interactions,, which is kind of fucked up too in my book.
But I do find the skater dads do warm easily to invitations of conversation from other older farts more easily than most other younger demographics.
We get some roller skate women who are pretty sorted to skate with. One day had a good interaction with a world class jammer who was a pro really, nice vibes
I'm sorry Cathy but you'll have to pay for a new one