Portland is one of the world’s premier skateboarding cities.⁠ ⁠ In 1990, a group of skateboarders living in Portland were looking for a skatepark to call their own. Seeking shelter from the violent rains of the city, they settled on the undercarriage of the east side of the Burnside Bridge and, lacking permits, capital, or anything except collective will and a vision of glorious skateboarding fun, set to cleaning up the various needles and piles of garbage that had collected there, acquired unused concrete from workers building the I-84 onramp under construction nearby, and built the core features of what’s now known as the Burnside Skatepark. ⁠ ⁠ Burnside became a sensation not only with local skaters, but among an emerging group of skateboarders, video producers, and skating equipment entrepreneurs who were coalescing into what we now recognize as the global skateboarding industry. In 1998, the park appeared in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. DIY skatepark projects all over the world have ta...