Hyde Park Skatepark (Woodhouse Moor)

Leeds' free concrete park on Woodhouse Moor, built in 2004 as one of the city's first outdoor concrete skateparks. Three well-spaced sections — a transition run of facing quarters with a spine, a street section with a hubba, and a second street section deliberately laid out with simpler, easier lines — so you can pick your corner and progress at your own pace.

Officially Woodhouse Moor Skateboard Park and universally called Hyde Park, this is a straightforward back-and-forth park rather than a flow bowl — which is a feature, not a limitation, when you are rebuilding confidence. The transition section pairs two facing quarter pipes around a spine with a roll-over, with two more back-to-back quarters and a platform between them. The first street section sets flat banks and quarters facing each other across a driveway with a hubba down the middle.

The third section is the one to start in: it repeats the street elements but, in the words of the UK skateparks guide, “laid out much more simply and with easier lines”. Bendcrete built the park in 2004 mostly from precast concrete, and it has held up. It sits in the university district, so expect it busy on sunny afternoons in term time; mornings are quieter. Welcome Skate Store in the city centre is the local shop.