We begin our list with a spot that is consistently reviewed as one of the best Melbourne skateparks. With a large street plaza containing staples such as ledges, double sets, kink rails, banks, manual pads. The park also plays host to a mini capsule bowl and a large kidney bowl with concrete coping. Designed and constructed by Convic, “Franga” as it is known to Melbourne skaters is a great place for both vert and street skaters.

Located in Melbourne’s beautiful Alexandra Gardens overlooking the Yarra River, Riverslide Skate Park is an 1800 square metre paradise. With a wide array of different obstacles and skate terrain, this has proven to be an immensely popular park. An adjoining shop provides visitors with a place to purchase the latest products from some of the best skate brands in the world. Offering lessons is another perk to skaters, for those of you looking to work on your shredding with the assistance of an experienced sensei.

If you’re looking for an indoor skatepark, Melbourne has a few options. Opening back in 2008, RampFest Indoor Skate Park is Australia’s Largest Indoor Skate Park. The facility caters to all actions sports with a recently revamped park. Attached to the facility is a skate shop which stocks skate decks and parts from everyone’s favourite brands. Despite being one of Australia’s oldest Indoor Skate facility the team here are always installing new ramps. The park also offers a coaching clinic to those looking to improve their abilities on the board.

Cranbourne’s Shed features everything most riders would want in a skate park plus loads of space to watch, as well as a retail shop and kiosk. Designed by skaters in consultation with the community, the park caters for all levels of rider and has a huge street course, vert ramp, bowl, resi and state of the art “Big Air Bag”. The entire park is covered with a special ramp surface that delivers a smooth ride. While regularly offering coaching sessions and school-break camps for the young ones, the park is open from 10 am to 9 pm daily. The Shed might be one of the best skateparks in Melbourne.

This skate park located in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill is consistently considered to be one of the best parks in the city that has a bit of everything for everyone. With bowls, rails, quarters and banks plus lines for days, overall it is a fun park. Constructed with smooth concrete and having a rather distinctive colour scheme of, I would say, Earwax Yellow (that’s an image) check it out for a decent, casual skate.

Another entrant on our list that has a little bit of everything for everyone, Noble Park Skatepark is a modern and well-designed park that has made fans out of even the staunchest skaters. Having great ledges rails on its street course and a large vert bowl with pool coping and a fun snake run to boot. The park was a joint design and construction project with the organisation’s baseplate, Primate Design Group and the Land Design partnership.

Build on the Marina Reserve in St Kilda, the skate park is one designed for a new generation of skaters. With a mixture of both small and medium trannys, the park can get quite busy with other skaters and dreaded scooter kids. Saying that the park is still brilliant with bowls varying in size from 5 to 8 feet. Perhaps the biggest drawcard of the park is the use of granite coping on some sections such as the parks loveseat for instance. This grinds much faster to say traditional concrete.

A list about skateboarding in Melbourne and the best skateparks in Melbourne would not be complete, we feel, without mentioning Knox Skate Park. The biggest drawcard to this park is the bowl, measuring 7-8 foot with a 9-foot cradle and 6-foot shallow. The smaller bowl has tight trannies hip and over vert. The street course has fun ledges and rails albeit it is quite small and is another addition to our list that was designed by Convic.