The genesis of Dreamland Skateparks is Portland's world-famous Burnside Skatepark.
Designed, built in 1990, and maintained today by individual members of the Dreamland team, it remains one of the skateboarding world's most revered, challenging, and highly respected locations. Burnside is featured internationally in the skateboarding media on an near-monthly basis, its landscape is featured in the best-selling Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game, and is a must-skate location for professionals everywhere. Tony Hawk himself considers it among his five favorite skateparks (USA Today, May 5, 2003).
Burnside Coverage:
Dreamparks of the Northwest (EXPN) -- 10/30/2003
"...That was the motivation behind Dreamland Skateparks, Red's construction company in Portland, which today churns out hands-down the best parks in the world."
The Story of Dreamland Skateparks (Switch Skateboard Magazine) -- 08/01/2003
"...They became allies with their foes and built one of the most challenging skateparks in the world guerilla-style: Burnside Skatepark."
Riding the Dreamland Wave Portland, Oregon (Portland Tribune) -- 01/28/2003
"...That’s the Cinderella story of Portland-based Dreamland Skateparks LLC, a group of skateboarders whose skateboard park designs are drawing worshipful reviews from national skateboarding magazines and a lineup of contracts from cities looking to reach out to their disenfranchised youth."
The Answer is Never, a Skateboarder's History of the World by Jocko Weyland, Grove Press, 2002
"...some of the most amazing manifestations of this flowering are in Oregon, where (the) Dreamland team have taken their Burnside experience and applied it to building city-funded parks that are better than anything else in the world. They are built by real skaters who ride what they sculpt with authority."
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This documentary, originally created for Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) tells the story of Burnside, and the personalities behind it.
"Burnside's rise from junkie lair to its current glory was due to ten years of sweat, toil, and piecemeal ingenuity by local diehards whom (Mark) Scott led to expand upon Bret Taylor's original impetus.
Entirely unsubsidized, they laid down concrete and tested it as they went along until they achieved the desired result. It is a grass roots reclamation project that so positively changed the surrounding neighborhood that the city bestowed on (Mark Scott) and the rest a citation for civic improvement...
...Burnside is an awe-inspiring pilgrimage site because the right fanatics built it for all the right reasons - the opposite of the deplorable travesties that occur when architects completely ignore their constituency to design flawed skateparks..."
- "The Answer is Never, a Skateboarder's History of the World, by Jocko Weyland, pg 315.