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Red, Munk, and the rest of the Dreamland Designs crew have built another great skatepark in Newberg, Oregon. There's been a buzz going around about this park for some time while it was being built. I've been hearing about how huge the park is area- and height-wise, along with tales of some volcano-type obstacle with a spinning cement top. Along with the pre-opening hype and the knowledge that Dreamland Designs was building it, I saw a rough drawing of the park plan/layout that was enough to get me off my ass and make a road trip down to Oregon.

The park has been open for a few weeks now (early July or so) and just walking up to it was a jaw dropper. Newberg is definitely one the biggest public parks that I've been to. Dreamland Designs is an apt name for the guys who built Newberg because it's the kind of park that most skaters can only dream about (until now).

There's all types of terrain to skate here, but I'd have to say that skaters who enjoy transitions will get the most out of it. Don't get me wrong, the average street skater has the ledges and rails (even some removeable ones) to skate but this park isn't meant for the foot-dragging pushers. This park is meant for rolling. You got trannied walls of varying heights from about 3 ft to 12 ft. There's a couple of big humps/pumpbumps, an 11 ft tall banked wall, a number of bowls (including one with a bell-shaped extension), a jersey-barrier wall, a vert half-pipe area that corners into a capsule - it's just futile to try to list off everything that you can skate there. The park is all smooth and fully skateable.

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