Butte and Dillon Photos
Brendan Rohan submitted some photos of the Butte and Dillon parks. Check them out here.
Now someone hit us up with a couple Helena photos, and we’ll have all the parks in the state covered.
Charges filed in recent graffiti case
from the Dillon Tribune
By J.P. Plutt
Dillon Tribune staff
An adult and a juvenile have been cited for criminal mischief in connection with the graffiti at the Skate Park. Two to three other juveniles are under scrutiny and could be charged in the coming days.
Nickolai J. Gawsowski, 26, of Dillon, has been arrested and charged with criminal mischief, and a 17-year-old juvenile male has been cited into Juvenile Court on criminal mischief charges. According to Dillon Police Chief John Gutcheck, good leads on other alleged perpetrators, combined with more corrobative information should result in charges on a minimum of two and possibly three more juveniles in the near future.
“There have been a lot of contacts, not necassarily names, but descriptions,” said Gutcheck of the unusual public response. “They have been coming forward with bits and pieces, which is like a puzzle. You put it all together and you get a big picture. Each little piece doesn’t seem to fit anywhere until you start connecting the dots.
“We’re obtaining a lot more information from people that are just outraged at what has taken place.”
The Dillon Skatepark, one week old.
Montana Skate Trip: Day 1 – Dillon
Our first stop on our Fall Mini Montana road trip was Dillon, Montana, where there is a new Grindline skatepark that was finished just a couple of weeks ago dubbed the “Racetrack.” This park is unique because it basically forms a figure eight that you can skate in either direction with a big metal full pipe through the middle that was donated by someone local during the construction. It also has a rollover that crosses over the top of the tube. We arrived mid day in Dillon to about a dozen kids on Razor scooters and bikes falling all over the bowl and a couple kids skating the little mini park section. There was also some fresh graffiti all over the thing including a glaring swastika so please disregard that in our pictures. Every little kid in the park knew who did it, so hopefully the kid got what was coming to him.
Our initial impression was that it was a little bit smaller than we expected based on pictures we had seen and it was pretty tricky to figure out at first. After a couple roll arounds you kind of get the feel for the flow and then you can really start pumping it. It has a mix of pool coping and metal coping with the pool coping in most of the corners. It also has some speed bumps built in that allow you to create new lines with out just riding the figure 8 the whole time. Overall though this park seems to have and endless variety of stuff to figure out and is definitely one of, if not, the most unique park I have ever skated.
