Seattle, Washington, USA Location: 500 23rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, USA From Tobias Coughlin-Bogue of "Curbed Seattle": "...the main skate spot ... View more

Seattle, Washington, USA Location: 500 23rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, USA From Tobias Coughlin-Bogue of "Curbed Seattle": "...the main skate spot isn’t technically at Garfield High, but the school has become the accepted point of reference. It’s actually on top of Medgar Evers Pool, a beauty of brutalist architecture. The sides of the entire structure are banked concrete, making it a skateboarder’s paradise. On top of the pool, there’s a very famous 11-stair, next to which sits an equally famous bank that is extended by the near-vertical wall of the pool’s tallest, most imposing turret. Only the bravest souls drop in from the top of that thing, and Nolan Johnson’s backside boneless on it is still one of the craziest tricks done in Seattle. Another is David Gravette’s ollie from one of the pool’s wide concrete guardrails into the murderously steep bank that faces 23rd Avenue. The pool also sports two sets of low, rounded handrails, made of the same rough concrete that the rest of it is. And almost everything part of the structure is slightly sloped, so almost everything is a wallride waiting to happen." [Photos from FindSkateSpots.com, visit their link on this page] Show less