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The Denver Skatepark is huge, with a great location in the middle of the city, and it\'s lit until 11 p.m. All that is good. But skaters have mixed feelings about this park. Some like the eleven-foot-deep \"peanut bowl,\" but almost all bitch about the slick concrete, which makes for \"ice capades\" on dusty or cold days. Many also feel that the original street-course area lacks flow and contains many misplaced and unusable obstacles. And while the abundance of knee-high ledges is great, some are choppy and gnarled beyond recognition as a result of the decision not to cap them with angle iron. The 2003 extension of the street section, which expanded the park\'s total square footage to 60,000, added a few fun elements like flatbars and low curbs, but the banks and pyramids are far too steep and often unused except by dudes on mountain bikes. Nevertheless, this park is probably the most utilized patch of public land in Colorado.
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