Skate Parks in the South Bay

The South Bay has a dozen public skate parks between the Westchester bluffs and the harbor, and not one of them charges admission. What changes from park to park is who runs it, and that decides the hours, the pad rules and whether a bike is allowed inside the fence. Four cities, the County and the City of Los Angeles each write their own code. Below is every public park we could confirm on its operator’s own site, with the rules as the operator states them, checked September 17, 2026.

Which skate parks are in the Beach Cities?

Manhattan Beach. The Marine Avenue Skate Spot at Marine Avenue Park, 1625 Marine Avenue, is 6,000 square feet of concrete, with transition elements around the perimeter and stairs, rails and ledges in the center, in the City’s words. Open 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM every day, no reservations, helmets and protective gear required. It opened to the public on March 18, 2017 after two rounds of resident surveys, and the City’s current Parks Master Plan has nothing further planned.

Hermosa Beach. The Hermosa Beach Skate Park sits on the Community Center campus at 710 Pier Avenue, open 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM daily. Helmet, elbow pads and knee pads are required, and in-line skaters also need wrist guards. It closes on select days from September through February for BeachSports camps, on the four Christmas and New Year holidays, and at 2:00 PM on the first Tuesday of each month for cleaning. The Parks Master Plan the Council approved in November 2024 lists improvements to the skate park, with no scope or dates published yet.

Redondo Beach. The newest park in the Beach Cities is the Pier Skate Park on the International Boardwalk, which opened in 2023 under a purpose-written chapter of the municipal code. Chapter 37 requires a helmet, elbow pads and knee pads for anyone on a skateboard, scooter, roller skates or in-line skates, requires a parent or guardian for riders under 12, bans outside ramps and rails, and posts the hours at the park rather than online. The City unveiled a public art mural by Andy Jenkins there in 2025. Across town, Perry Park at 2301 Grant Avenue lists skate park elements among its amenities; the same Chapter 37 rules apply.

El Segundo. The El Segundo Skate Park is part of the Teen Center at Recreation Park, 405 East Grand Avenue, open from sunrise until 8:00 PM every day. Skateboards, scooters and in-line skates are allowed, bikes are not, and riders bring their own helmets and pads or are turned away. The City put a Teen Center, Plaza and Skatepark Renovation out to bid in February 2026 (bids closed April 14) covering the skate elements, fencing, accessibility, drainage and landscaping; no construction schedule or closure dates have been published, so check the City’s page before a first visit.

What about San Pedro and the harbor?

These are City of Los Angeles parks, so one rule set covers all of them. Under Los Angeles Municipal Code 63.44(N) a City skate facility is open from noon to sunset on weekdays and 9:00 AM to sunset on weekends and holidays, closes in wet weather, and requires a helmet, elbow pads and knee pads. A first offense is a $100 infraction.

Peck Park, 560 North Western Avenue, San Pedro, is the best documented of the three; the City’s page lists the skate park without describing it, and the builder’s account of bowls, a snake run and a flow course is not confirmed by the operator. Harbor City Skate Park is at 24901 Frampton Avenue and the Wilmington Skate Plaza at 325 North Neptune Avenue; both City pages give an address and phone number and little else.

The exception is Channel Street Skatepark at 610 West Channel Street, under the Harbor Freeway. It was built by skaters, fenced off by Caltrans work in 2014, and reopened on August 21, 2022 under a 20-year lease from the City to the volunteer San Pedro Skatepark Association, which carries the maintenance, insurance and permitting itself on donations. Free entry and parking, 9:00 AM to sunset under the lease terms, and no BMX bikes.

Is there a skate park on the Palos Verdes Peninsula?

No. None of the four Peninsula cities lists one. Palos Verdes Estates has no recreation department and only passive parks; Rolling Hills Estates lists eleven parks without a skate facility; Rolling Hills is private and gated. Rancho Palos Verdes offers Skating in the Park at the Ken Dyda Civic Center, but that is a seasonal synthetic ice rink in December and January, not a skateboard park. Torrance’s parks pages no longer list the former Wilson Park skate park, and Lomita’s recreation page has none. From the Hill, the closest concrete is the Redondo Pier, Peck Park or Alondra Park.

Which parks are inland?

Alondra Park, 3850 Manhattan Beach Boulevard in Lawndale, is the County’s, and the Supervisor’s office describes its skate park as 14,000 square feet, the largest figure any operator publishes in the South Bay. The park is open 6:30 AM to 9:00 PM. Hawthorne’s Eucalyptus Park skatepark at 12100 South Inglewood Avenue runs 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM under a city code chapter that requires helmet, elbow and knee pads, allows BMX riders with the same gear, and prohibits scooters. Carson’s Veterans Park, 22400 Moneta Avenue, has what the City calls a 10,000-square-foot skate park. Gardena’s parks list confirms Rowley Park at 13220 South Van Ness Avenue and Arthur Lee Johnson Memorial Park at 1200 West 170th Street, both of which have skate plazas built in 2012 according to their builder, though the City’s own site does not mention them. To the north, Westchester Skate Park at the Westchester Recreation Center, 7000 West Manchester Avenue, is the nearest City of Los Angeles facility to Playa del Rey.

What rules apply at every park?

State law settles the pad question. Health and Safety Code 115800 says the operator of a skateboard park shall not permit anyone to ride a skateboard, scooter, in-line skates, roller skates or nonmotorized bike there without a helmet, elbow pads and knee pads. An unsupervised city or county park complies by adopting an ordinance and posting signs, and once those signs are up, a rider without pads is citable. That is why every park above reads the same on gear regardless of age. What varies is everything else: Los Angeles City parks open at noon on weekdays and close when the concrete is wet; Redondo Beach requires an adult with anyone under 12; El Segundo and Channel Street keep bikes out; Hawthorne lets BMX in and keeps scooters out. No operator publishes an admission fee, and none states that its skate park is lit.

What we could not verify

The Redondo Beach Pier park’s street address and 9,000-square-foot size come from its builder and the pier’s own promotional site, not a City page, and the City posts its hours on site rather than online. Peck Park’s terrain is described only by its builder. The City of Los Angeles skate park index would not load for us, and its Harbor City and Wilmington pages carry no feature descriptions, so we cannot say which are designated all-wheel facilities. Gardena’s site never mentions its two skate plazas, so their size and build year rest on the builder alone, and the text of Gardena’s skate park code chapter was not retrievable. Torrance has published no statement closing the old Wilson Park skate park; we treat it as gone because it no longer appears on any City page. Where a fact is not on an operator’s site, we have said so rather than filled it in.

How does this bear on a home search?

If a skate park within walking distance is on the list, the Beach Cities parks sit inside residential streets: Marine Avenue Park on the east side of Manhattan Beach, the Hermosa Community Center a block off Pier Avenue, and Recreation Park in the middle of El Segundo. In San Pedro, Peck Park backs onto the neighborhoods above Western Avenue. Every card and button on this site runs a live search, so the button below pulls today’s listings across the sixteen Beach Cities MLS areas.

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