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Skateboarders can flip, grip and catch air at regional parks
Athens and Cumming have facilities for boarders to practice tricks and hone skills
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Southeast Clarke Park in Athens is one of the nearest places to Gainesville with facilities to accommodate skateboarders.
It’s an outdoor, summer pastime made popular by professionals such as Tony Hawk. Children glide down their driveways and around cul-de-sacs on skateboards through the summer, but skate parks in North Georgia are few and far between. Fowler Park in Cumming and Southeast Clarke Park in Athens are the nearest skate parks to the Gainesville-Hall County area.