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Inside the old Falstaff brewery warehouse, 30,000 square feet of space for skating and BMX racing await urban daredevils. The first indoor skate park in St. Louis, Ramp Riders is the brainchild of Chad Hehner, who has been riding BMX since he was ten years old. Now 36, Hehner is still skating and built his BMX haven to teach the hobby to younger generations. Although the majority of his patrons aren't much older than Hehner was when he first started -- somewhere in the 10- to... More »
Those seeking new thrills in inlines or on skateboards or RipSticks should pay a visit to Ramp Riders Skatepark, an enormous brick warehouse located less than a mile from where Interstate 55 crosses Gravois and filled to the brim with a new layout of sturdy wooden ramps. The skatepark offers one of the best and safest locations in St. Louis to practice your ollie, nosegrind or kickflip, or to acquire said skills. Staff members, who are also members of competitive skateboarding and inline... More »
Although hardcore street skaters may scoff at the idea of an indoor park as the best place to skate in a city filled with steps, rails and the usually dry River des Peres, the multilevel warehouse known as Ramp Riders, with its excellent plywood half-pipes, bowls and BMX jumps, is the ideal space for practicing your ollies, impossibles, sex changes, fakies, grinds and 360's. Even the pipes and debris in this seriously gritty warehouse, buried in an Midtown industrial area -- think of a... More »
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