Wheel-Friendly Parks in The Woodlands

The Woodlands Township has nine wheel-friendly parks. Seven have skate areas with ramps, banks, pipes, walls and jumps, built for skateboards, in-line skates and BMX freestyle bikes. Cranebrook Park and Ridgewood Park have BMX dirt tracks, and Ridgewood also has concrete grinding walls, stairs and rails. All nine are open daily from dawn to dusk, and helmets and pads are required.

Bear Branch Park

5200 Research Forest Drive

Cochran’s Crossing. Skate park, about 21,000 sq ft, lighted. 197 parking spaces in two lots.

The largest skate park in the Township, built in poured concrete: two bowls, the deepest about 9 feet, plus a street section with a ledge, a funbox and two handrails. It sits next to the Bear Branch Recreation Center, with a pool, a sprayground and tennis and pickleball courts elsewhere in the park.

Cranebrook Park

11800 Cranebrook Drive

Sterling Ridge. BMX dirt track. 55 parking spaces.

A dirt track of rolling hills beside the Cranebrook Pool and four lighted tennis courts. The track has historically had little upkeep from Parks and Recreation.

3883 S. Panther Creek Drive

Panther Creek. Skate area, about 7,500 sq ft. 14 parking spaces.

Steel ramps and boxes on a flat concrete pad, including a fun box and a quarterpipe (as of 2015). The Creekwood Pool and pickleball courts share the park.

7505 S. Forestgate Drive

Indian Springs. Skate area, about 9,000 sq ft. 30 parking spaces.

Quarterpipes, a pyramid, bump ramps and a rainbow rail on a concrete slab, updated in 2011 (as of 2015). It shares the park with the Forestgate Pool.

2 Blair Bridge Drive

College Park. Skate bowl, about 2,000 sq ft. 48 parking spaces.

The smallest of the seven, a single concrete bowl next to the Harper’s Landing Pool.

5001 W. Alden Bridge Drive

Alden Bridge. Skate area, about 7,200 sq ft. 90 parking spaces.

A small poured-concrete skate park that replaced the original ramps, in a village park of about 24 acres with the Lakeside Pool.

4192 Interfaith Way

Panther Creek. Concrete skate plaza and BMX dirt track. 63 parking spaces.

A looped concrete plaza through the woods with ledges, a fun box, stairs and rails, alongside a BMX dirt track. The Ridgewood Pool, four lighted tennis courts and a GaGa pit round out the park.

1300 N. Millbend Drive

Grogan’s Mill. Skate area, about 5,300 sq ft. 30 parking spaces.

Steel ramps, ledges, a fun box and a quarterpipe on a flat pad under the trees (as of 2015), in a park with a fenced dog park, tennis courts and fishing piers on two ponds.

8500 Terramont Drive

Sterling Ridge. Skate area, about 4,800 sq ft. 40 parking spaces.

Steel jump ramps, ledges and rails on a concrete slab (as of 2015). Terramont is also home to a nine-hole disc golf course.

For the other parks in these seven villages, see our Alden Bridge, Cochran’s Crossing, College Park, Grogan’s Mill, Indian Springs, Panther Creek and Sterling Ridge parks pages.

Skateboards, in-line skates and BMX freestyle bikes without pegs only; no scooters, Heelys, regular bikes or bikes with training wheels. Helmet, elbow pads, knee pads and gloves are required, and riders without them are asked to leave. No tricks that take a rider more than 3 feet off the ground, and one rider at a time in a bowl. Riders 6 to 10 need an adult with them; children under 6 stay on the playground. No board wax, ramps brought from home, glass or alcohol.

Skate and BMX areas are open from dawn to dusk, including the lit park at Bear Branch; lighted tennis and basketball courts at these parks stay open until 11 p.m. Other park rules apply too: see our Park Types and Rules page.

Wheel-friendly area rules (PDF) · Wheel Friendly Parks, The Woodlands Township (official page)

Skateboarding, skating and BMX riding can cause serious injury. Use of these areas is at the rider’s own risk.

Sources: Township Wheel Friendly Parks · wheel-friendly area rules · Township park rules, Order 019-09 · Township parks GIS · SITE Design Group, Bear Branch skate park · Concrete Disciples skatepark listings, about 2015: Creekwood, Forestgate, Tamarac, Terramont, Lakeside

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