With everybody snowboarding in the winter it just makes perfekt sense that they simply switch to different board as soon as it warms up. Innsbruck offers quite a few parks for all you skateboarder and inline-skaters out there.

With an area covering 2000 square metres the Skate Hall Innsbruck is the biggest venue to hit the ramps. With a day ticket costing only 2.80€ (April 2020) it is definitely affordable for everyone. The park is also open for everyone with allocated time-slots for BMX, skate, skate&BMX and scooters. As far as I am aware of, and please correct me if I’m wrong, it’s also the only indoor park in Innsbruck.

All-in.at (GER) offers an overview of the outdoor parks in Innsbruck here. If you want to learn skating yourself or get into more details about what’s happening concerning skateboarding around Innsbruck including events and contests we recommend you check out skateboard-club-innsbruck.

One of our favourite locations to skate or watch people skate is the Landhausplatz in the city center. At the point of writing (in April 2020) there is a discussion in progress if skating should be banned at this location. As I know how much skaters have an inner urge to always be in line with the law I thought you’d want to know.

Here is some further information in this regard – basically the Landhausplatz used to be a park filled with trees and was a much needed green space in the city center. The government decided to tear it all down and fill it up with concrete – a very controversial decision at best. As the new design took shape it became obvious that the Landhausplatz quite literally is turning into a skate park as this great video from SOLO skateboard magazine showcases nicely. Something I assume the politicians involved did not realise at the time. Now that the space is filled with young people and skaters it seems the government employees located in the surrounding buidings are unhappy and want them gone. They plan to accomplish that by outlawing skating there and/or making structural changes to the space, making it unsuitable for skating. A move I personally consider to be extremely petty and embarassing. It would not only mess up the architecture of the place but destroy a great cohabited space that highlights the diversity and coexistence that defines our great city. If you want to keep up with how the discussion progresses or have some good ideas how to solve this situation please check out skateboard-club-innsbrucks homemage. – Please note that this is my personal opinion and does not necessarily represent the views of any parties mentioned in this article.

As there are a lot of very well maintained bicycle lanes in Innsbruck skates and skateboards are also a very good mode of transportation, especially in and around the center. So, get your board/skates out and enjoy!

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