What is the largest skateboard ramp in the world?
The biggest skateboarding ramp in the world is located in professional skater Bob Burnquist’s backyard. The top of the ramp is over 8 stories higher than the lowest point of the ramp. It starts with a 180 foot ramp that leads to a 70 foot gap over trees and brush then to another ramp that speeds the rider along to a 30 foot half pipe that propels the skater another 20 feet into the air, over 50 feet from the ground on the quarter pipe, while the highest point on the gap exceeds 100 feet. The whole set up is much longer than a football field and is one of the most dangerous ramps in the world, attempted by only the best skaters in the world. It also provides some of the maximum air time allowing skaters to perform multiple rotations and flips with ease or merely tweak a grab into oblivion. The gap is protected by the same netting used by acrobats and has been tested many times. It doesn’t make this ramp safe, but decidedly less fatal.
