Ride report
🇺🇸Lauridsen Skatepark
Skatepark · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
read at 20:00 local · weather: open-meteo
Opened in May 2021 on the Des Moines riverfront, this 88,000-square-foot park was the largest public skatepark in the U.S. when it opened and hosted Dew Tour 2021, with park and street courses, a flow bowl, an amoeba pool and a snake run.
Heads up · Open 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. with lights; helmets and pads are highly recommended, and BMX riders must use plastic pegs.
- Who rides it
- Skate · Roller · Inline · Scooter
- Level
- Every level
- Cost · lights
- Free · lit
- Source
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Right now
Dry
Primedry and 16 °C — prime
Next 24 hours
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prime rideable sit it out · faded = after dark
Best dry windows this week
- Tue 12pm–11pmPrime
dry and 18 °C — prime · 12 h, 11 prime
- Thu 12pm–11pmPrime
dry and 19 °C — prime · 12 h, 9 prime
- Sun 12pm–11pmPrime
dry and 17 °C — prime · 12 h, 11 prime
Light 07:39–18:16 · this one is lit after dark
Today
Dry all day
9–22 °C
no rain
Tue
Dry 8am–6pm
13–20 °C
1 mm rain
Wed
Dry
12–23 °C
2 mm rain
Thu
Dry 12pm–6pm
12–20 °C
3 mm rain
Fri
Dry 8am–12pm
11–15 °C
7 mm rain
Sat
Washout
11–13 °C
14 mm rain
Sun
Dry 12pm–6pm
13–17 °C
no rain
daily read · rain counts the day it falls
Bring
- Always → a helmet (required at many parks and every track), and pads for transition and dirt
More spots nearby
Same weather, same read: if it's dry here, it's dry at these too — unless they're indoor, or 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.