Shoshone Skate Park Grant

In Shoshone there is a new entrance to the skate park, just east of Shoshone on Highway 26. This was made possible thanks to a grant from the Southwestern Region Greatest Need Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation.

The skate park has been in need of repair for a while and still does. As a community organization, Saddle Up Lincoln County proposed a new entryway and the city approved. Saddle Up applied for and received a grant from the Southwestern Region Greatest Need Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation to start the project.

Many organizations pitched in to help with many in-kind hours of volunteer labor. Now, there is a beautiful metal structure covered with P V C lattice to provide a little shade with a place to sit with built- in benches for those who visit the skate park.

Saddle Up would like to thank other partnering organizations and individuals, City of Shoshone, City of Shoshone crew, Big Wood Canal Co. & American Falls Res. Dis. #2, Shoshone School Ag Department, Pacific Steel & Recycling, G & H Ace Hardware, Leland Towne, Payson Reese, Jon Pugh, Aric Johnson and Darrell Johnson for helping make this possible.

In the future, continued community support will be vital to the skate park restoration. In closing this echoes what was spoken decades ago, “Ask not what your community can do for you, but what you can do for your community.”