{"id":66352,"date":"2026-08-29T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=66352"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:49:38","slug":"lincolns-kevin-wilkins-skateboard-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=66352","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln&#8217;s Kevin Wilkins Skateboard Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-66353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kevin-wilkins-200x126.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kevin-wilkins-200x126.gif 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kevin-wilkins-450x283.gif 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>No better way to remember a skateboarding friend than to have a skatepark named in his memory. That&#8217;s what will be going down in Lincoln, Nebraska&#8217;s with the <strong>Kevin Wilkins Memorial Skateboard Park<\/strong> according to a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/klin.com\/2026\/08\/29\/lincoln-skatepark-named-for-late-skateboarder-kevin-wilkins\/\"><strong>KLIN.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor <strong>Leirion Gaylor Baird<\/strong> announced Friday that the skatepark at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincoln.ne.gov\/City\/Departments\/Parks-and-Recreation\/Parks-Facilities\/Parks-and-Recreation-Projects\/Canopy-Yard\"><strong>Canopy Yard<\/strong><\/a> will be named the Kevin Wilkins Memorial Skatepark. Wilkins, 58, died of cancer Nov. 4, 2025. \u201cKevin wanted Lincoln to be a place where skateboarders could gather, where young people could find belonging and where people from different backgrounds could connect,\u201d Gaylor Baird said. \u201cNaming this skatepark in his honor recognizes both his extraordinary contributions to skateboarding and the deep commitment he had to Lincoln.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;d rather have Kevin still around giving us the occasional shit, but short of that this is quite proper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/klin.com\/2026\/08\/29\/lincoln-skatepark-named-for-late-skateboarder-kevin-wilkins\/\">KILN.com<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No better way to remember a skateboarding friend than to have a skatepark named in his memory. That&#8217;s what will be going down in Lincoln, Nebraska&#8217;s with the Kevin Wilkins Memorial Skateboard Park according to a story on KLIN.com. Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird announced Friday that the skatepark at Canopy Yard will be named the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66356,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66352\/revisions\/66356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}