Needles Skate Park
Needles Skate Park is located in Duke Watkins Park at 1500 Flip Mendez Parkway.
Since 2002, the Tony Hawk Foundation has awarded 493 grants to help build free, public skate parks in low-income communities across the U.S. Currently, 417 of those parks are open and serving over 4-million youth annually. Needles received in 2003 a grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation in the amount of $20,000 to build it’s Skate Park.
- Water Fountain
- Playground Apparatus (adjacent)
- Rest rooms
- Soccer / Ball Field
- Turf Area


Tony Hawk skating Needles Skate park during Grand Opening.

The skate park during construction 2003.