Road Trip: Lake Delton - Day 2

We got to the park at dusk on Wednesday night. We were able to skate for about an hour and a half. It is great to have light until 9pm in the summer!! It was cool out and the air was nice. The skatepark was even better!! I have been dying to get here since we began hearing about it last September. I was actually able to skate with the Dreamland crew a few times at Wilson. These dudes started showing up with killer work trucks and would just roll in and destroy. Calabro was the one to actually talk to them and ask them where they were from. Great guys and an incredible job they did indeed!!

The concrete is flawless, this is one of my favorite parks in the immediate Chicago area. I kind of think of the bowl as a little Whiting, only well constructed. The coping sticks out a good 3" and is well set pool block. You can feel each block as you grind that stuff. I love it!!! Most guys that don't like Whiting because they can't do a 50/50 on top and do whatever ramp riding tricks they do will not like this park. Those of us that like to thrust into the coping and get that GRRRRALP sound will love it!!

The transitions in the bowl are crazy tight. The opposing flat walls are something like 5-6' transitions with 8-10" of vert. The long wall in the middle is much mellower and really never gets to true vert but has similar transitions. It is just a little more forgiving. The opposite wall from that witt the extension/loveseat is 4' of vert. Scarey!! The oververt pocket really does not go to oververt but it is fun going frontside because you kinda feel a lil' upside down!!

I am usually not a fan of bowls without waterfalls but this one gets you plenty of speed if you take the right lines. It is all about the X and the infinity in this one. Soooooo fun and challenging. Because of the big coping and tight trannies, you will fall and get pissed at first. But after a few runs if you stay with it the bowl gets really fun!!

The street/flow area is superb. There are so many features that I can not explain them all! Some highlights include vert quarter pipe with stamped brick 2' transition 3' vert. Every side wall where you would normally have a fence or a flat retaining wall, Dreamland built transitions, banks and wallrides. The hubba had trapezoidal wallrides going up to it. There is a 9' transition/bank/wallride, there is a mini bowl that goes to a vert Q'pipe and a hip that is bowled on one side so you can either carve back into the lil' bowl or transfer into the flow area.

We had a great time and skated most of the day on Thursday.

We actually got to ride a private bowl on the way back home!! I did not take pictures because I am not sure how they are about all that and blowing things out. It was rad, great and thanks so much for letting us go there!!!!!