Spring Skate Park has more than 75,000 square feet of skate surface and includes various amenities.[/caption]

Spring is home to the largest skate park in North America after Spring Skate Park opened in August. The second largest skate park in the world continues to thrive mostly because of its international appeal.

Sally Bradford, executive director for the Greenspoint Redevelopment Authority, conceived the idea of Spring Skate Park after asking a group of teenagers in 2009 what they wanted to see in Spring.

"A lot of the kids up in this area, they don't have the funds to play tennis or golf or enroll in Little League," she said. "They can go to a skate park with a skateboard and a helmet, and they're set."

However, the park also caters to skaters from throughout the world with skaters from as far away as Australia and Chile frequenting the park. Bradford said the park's popularity has exceeded expectations with as many as 1,000 people skating there at a time during favorable weather.

Funded through a tax increment reinvestment zone as part of the 10-acre Spring Recreational Area, construction on the skate park began in January 2013. The skate park features more than 75,000 square feet of skate surface area that includes a competition-scale bowl with a full pipe and a 12-foot vertical ramp, a 10-foot bowl, banked walls and speed hips, Bradford said.

The Spring Recreation Area also houses Dylan Park—a wheelchair-accessible park for special needs children. Dylan Park provides a skating area for wheelchairs and can host various wheelchair games.

Bradford said the skateboard venue plans to hold three major events a year and is currently negotiating a deal with potential sponsors.