Kona Skatepark, Jacksonville, Fla
"This was the first place I ever traveled to, at 12, as a sponsored amateur skater. Constructed in the late 1970's, Kona is the oldest private skate park. The place has a great retro feel. It still has its original bowls to further evoke images right out of That '70s Show. They've also updated other parts of the park with two competition street courses, and 80-foot-wide vert ramp and one of the world's few snake runs, which is a downhill speed run with banked turns. Kona is the site of the annual Kona Summer Nationals (June 13-15), the professional vert-ramp competition, which helps create legends of today and champions of tomorrow, including Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill and Danny Way. When in Jacksonville, I like to take in a bit of history and nature: It's home to to Fort Caroline, the first European settlement on the North American Mainland, established in 1564 by the French; and the 46,000 acre Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Boarders dig nature, you know."

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