LET'S BUILD A SKATEPARK
A personal fundraiser by
Pam CopelandA small group of dedicated volunteers can make big things happen.
$17,000
raised by 12 people
in 8 months left
2026….so far
🛹 Our Skate Park Journey
A Community Coming Together for a New Skate Park
The Boundary County Skate Park Alliance is excited to share that we have reached our first major fundraising goal — $17,000 to secure professional plans for our new skate park!
Our community celebrated this milestone on National Go Skateboarding Day, June 20, with an afternoon filled with skateboarding, music, face painting, cornhole, snacks, and family fun. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate everyone who has helped make this dream possible.
🌟 What We're Building
The new skate park will be located on Boundary County Parks and Recreation property next to the current skate park. The estimated cost of the completed project is $465,000.
The new park will be a larger, professionally designed concrete all-wheel park, welcoming skateboarders, BMX riders, scooter riders, rollerbladers, and anyone who enjoys riding.
Our hope is to create a safe, well-lit place where local youth and families can gather, have fun, and build community.
❤️ This Is a Community Effort
This project would not be possible without the incredible support of our community.
Local skateboarders, BMX riders, families, businesses, volunteers, and community organizations have all played a part. From fundraising events and donations to helping spread the word, every contribution brings us closer to the finish line.
When we were just $701 short of our $17,000 planning goal, Boundary County Parks and Recreation stepped in to help provide the remaining funds so we could move forward.
🚀 What's Next?
Reaching our first goal is a huge accomplishment — but there is still work to do!
We are now beginning the next phase of fundraising, including pursuing grants and seeking community support through donations, materials, services, and volunteer help.
A professionally designed plan is the first step toward making a project of this size possible. Now we're ready to take that next step together.
🛹 Thank You, Boundary County!
This skate park is about more than concrete and ramps.
It's about community, connection, activity, and giving our kids a place to belong.
Thank you to everyone who has donated, volunteered, attended an event, shared our story, or simply cheered us on.
We are building this skate park together — one goal at a time!
Boundary County Skate Park Alliance
Building a place to ride. Building a stronger community.
Our Story 2022
The Alliance as we know it has its roots in 2015. Just over 7 years ago, BCSA Core Member and treasurer, who also started this Facebook page, Pam Smith Copeland, posted a plea on Facebook back when she was with the Parks and Rec Board. She was again asking for interest in building a new skate park, after no one had showed up at the December 2015 P&R meeting to form a committee to start the process. As she warned of in that post, after the P&R January 2016 meeting, the idea had to be tabled to a “later date”.
Thankfully that date finally came, at the end of April of 2022. That's when, Nancy Schaffer, the most recent Sports Director for Parks and Rec, after talking with some of the skaters, put out a flier to again see what interest there was in skatepark. The very first public meeting was on May 13th and the response was huge for a small town like Bonners Ferry.
Within a couple weeks of the first meeting, a small core of 4-6 people had formed, and by June 21st we held our inaugural event at the park. We had a lot of enthusiastic volunteers show up and contribute including a real kick start from Jason Olsen, of Yousta Story Tellers, out of CDA and the at large Skate Park Advocacy community…And so it was, that with some online guidance videos and literature from The SkatePark Project ™ and with the support of so many other volunteers from within our community, BCSA was formed.
We held one more event at the park where we had a contest to choose our killer logo, then we gathered and participated in the fair parade. During the Fair, our Local Eagles Auxiliary surprised us with a raffle in our honor, raising the first large contribution from the community of $ 1,385.00.
Our third and final public event of 2022 was our Halloween party on a rainy and cold Saturday Oct 22nd, with skating in the Park Pavilion.
So, from insufficient support 7 years earlier to the reboot in May, we are really only 7 months into this drive, and we have raised $4105.52, toward our initial short-term goal of $10,000. May I remind you, that we are an all-volunteer group with just a few regular core people, all with day jobs, meeting twice a month and trying to ask people for money in the economy of 2022. So, the best reason we can point to for our success thus far is that it’s time has come and this community is answering the call. Now THAT’S something all who are reading this can be proud of.
A personal fundraiser by
Pam Copeland