Emerald is a town located in the Central Highlands region of Queensland. It’s situated in the Bowen Basin, which is a major coal-producing area in Australia. The town’s economy is closely tied to mining, and it serves as a hub for both agriculture and resource extraction.
In addition to its mining activities, the Central Highlands region, including Emerald is known for their investments in skatepark infrastructure. The shire appreciates the advantages that skateparks offer to the community and has spent large on a number of skate facilities in the region.
The Emerald Skatepark features a large smooth concrete surface with a bunch of transition features in an open-flow arrangement. Obstacles include banks, a spine, quarters, a 1/4 bowl, a ledge and a mini ramp. A fun park to roll around and streach your legs.
Yelarbon Skate Park
Between a relatively smooth concrete slab and a shade sail lies the Yelerbon Skate Park steel features. There are a lot of larger quarter ramps that form a half pipe and for an open flow arrangement of obstacles. With a couple of spines and euro gaps, Yelerbon makes...
Cairns Skate Plaza
The famous Cairns Skate Plaza in Queensland can be found on the city's foreshore. Convic Skate Parks built the skatepark in 2007, and, at the time, it was the most extensive skate facility in Australia. The skateboard park features a couple of large skate bowls and is...
Proserpine Skate Park
The small concrete park known as Proserpine Skate park is smooth and has several standard street features and a super cool bowl. The street section has rails, banks, quarters, euro gaps, spine, ledges and more. The concrete is showing its age and cracking in areas and...
