Ride report
🇨🇦Cowboys Park Skatepark (formerly Shaw Millennium Park)
Skatepark · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
read at 18:00 local · weather: open-meteo
Opened in 2000 on the west edge of downtown, its 75,000 sq ft of concrete is Canada's largest outdoor skatepark, with street, intermediate and advanced courses, a cloverleaf bowl and a large full pipe. Locals still call it 'Millz' after the Shaw Millennium Park name, which changed to Cowboys Park in 2024.
Heads up · The skatepark is open 24 hours, but some bowls close for the Cowboys Music Festival around Stampede (roughly mid-June to mid-July).
- Who rides it
- Skate · Roller · Inline · Scooter
- Level
- Every level
- Cost · lights
- Free · lights unknown
- Source
- Read more ↗
Right now
Dry
Rideabledry at 2 °C — hard wheels, cold pads; warm up first
Next 24 hours
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prime rideable sit it out · faded = after dark
Best dry windows this week
- Tue 9am–6pmRideable
dry, 3 °C · 10 h
- Sat 2pm–6pmRideable
dry, 3 °C · 5 h
- Sun 9am–6pmRideable
dry at -3 °C — hard wheels, cold pads; warm up first · 10 h
Light 08:18–18:20
Today
Dry 2pm–6pm
-1–3 °C
no rain
Tue
Dry
0–5 °C
no rain
Wed
Snow
-4–0 °C
no rain
Thu
Snow
-6–-1 °C
no rain
Fri
Wet
-8–1 °C
no rain
Sat
Dry 2pm–6pm
-5–4 °C
no rain
Sun
Dry
-4–3 °C
no rain
daily read · rain counts the day it falls
Bring
- 2 °C → gloves until you are warm; softer wheels and tyre pressure down a touch grip better in the cold
- Always → a helmet (required at many parks and every track), and pads for transition and dirt
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How the read works
We track the water on the ground hour by hour, starting two days back. Rain adds to it; sun, wind and dry air take it away (the forecast's evaporation figure, which folds all three together); frost locks it in. Concrete sheds most of a downpour and dries in a couple of hours on a good day. Dirt soaks it up and takes a day or more, and riding it while it's mud ruts it. It's a model, not a camera: shady corners and the bottom of a bowl hold water longer. Weather from Open-Meteo.