The short version: OC Ramps is building a fully custom indoor wooden skateboard bowl for a six-story mega mansion in Park City, Utah. The bowl is 3.5 feet tall with an 8-foot vert wall, in a space about 35 feet long by 30 feet wide. We prefabricated the four bowl corners at our warehouse in Orange County, California, shipped them north on a 52-foot flatbed on April 30, 2026, and will finish the install on site in about 7 to 10 days once the basement is ready.
Project at a Glance
- Location: Park City, Utah (indoor, basement-level sports area)
- Type: Custom wooden skateboard bowl
- Size: 3.5 ft tall bowl with an 8 ft tall vert wall, about 35 ft x 30 ft footprint
- Surface: Skatelite Pro
- Prefab: Four CNC-cut, compound-mitered corners built in Orange County, CA (about two months of work)
- Delivery: One 52-foot flatbed to Park City, shipped April 30, 2026
- On-site install: About 7 to 10 days
- Target finish: Before summer 2027
How a Mega Mansion Ended Up With a Skate Bowl
We got the first call on this project in 2024. A contractor reached out who is building a fully custom, six-story mega mansion in beautiful Park City, Utah. This property is unlike any other. It backs up to Deer Valley ski resort and it is going to be something extraordinary.
The contractor explained that he's basically building a mini hotel so a Utah family can have everything they want inside the house. A pool on the third floor. A custom, automated 27-car garage, so there's no need to even park. And down in the basement, with massive tall ceilings, a tennis court and a basketball court. It's funny to call it a basement, because this is essentially a sports park. Right beside the skate bowl will be a 30-foot-tall rock wall.
The family likes to travel and surf quite a bit. They're not putting a wave machine in the house, but they did want a custom skateboard bowl, so they can carve and pump around it as if it were a wave. They still skate, but the idea was a beach feel. And hopefully it helps their surfing for the next trip to Costa Rica or Fiji!
The Design: A 3.5-Foot Bowl With an 8-Foot Vert Wall
After going back and forth with the contractor on dimensions and design options, we landed on our standard 3.5-foot-tall bowl with one big twist: a vert wall section about 8 feet tall. The idea isn't for the client to grind or drop in on the vert. It's a wall to push off of and pump around the perimeter of the bowl. The space we have to work with is roughly 35 feet long by 30 feet wide.
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Prefabricating the Bowl at Our Orange County Warehouse
We held a team meeting with our crew to plan how to build and prefabricate this wooden skate bowl in our Orange County warehouse. The plan: fabricate the corners completely, ship them to Park City on a flatbed semi truck along with all the other ramp pieces, and pre-cut and pre-drill the rest of the ramp. When it's time to assemble, we fly up with our tools, set the four corners in place, and install the connecting sections between them.
We prepare as much as we can, but with any custom private skate ramp there's always some fitting and customizing on site. Still, with the corners already assembled and everything else pre-cut, we should finish this ramp in about 7 to 10 days instead of spending months building it from scratch in their basement.
Why Bowl Corners Take So Long: Compound Cuts
Our crew cut all the radius pieces on our CNC machine, laid them out in pie-corner shapes, and started framing with 2x6 supports. Building a bowl means making what's called a compound cut, similar to ceiling molding: a miter cut and a bevel cut on the same piece. It's very time-consuming, and every piece has a different angle. It took us a couple of months just to prepare these four corners. That's part of the reason bowls are on the pricey side. There's a lot of time and labor in each corner.
Once the framing was done we really liked the way it looked. It has kind of a spiderweb look.
Custom Details: Tile Band, Pool Coping and Skatelite Pro
Essentially every piece of this bowl is fully customized or special ordered. Directly under the coping on the vert section there will be about a foot of a dark grey, textured tile-style pattern. The coping on top of the vert section is a light grey concrete pool coping, special ordered and poured to match the exact curvature of the bowl.
The top skating surface will be Skatelite Pro. Even though it's going indoors, the client wanted the best: smooth and long lasting.
Shipping to Park City
The house is still about 30% complete and will take another year or two to finish. Timing mattered: it's far easier to drop the bowl pieces in before construction starts on the other floors. Once the basement had its concrete walls and ceiling, the contractor asked us to send the pieces up. They originally planned to use their car elevator to move everything down, but ended up using a crane instead.
We fit all the pieces and sections onto a 52-foot flatbed truck, and on April 30, 2026 it left our Santa Ana, California shop and hauled everything directly to the residence in Park City.
What's Next
As of now we're waiting on the green light to finish the construction in that basement. At that point we'll fly out and complete the ramp. Our goal is to finish sometime before the summer of 2027. Stay tuned for Part 2 when the bowl is finished, and when we wrap, we're going to have a great skate session with our crew!
More Custom Bowl Builds From OC Ramps
- Basement Skate Bowl via Crane Drop: another bowl lowered into a basement by crane.
- Custom Indoor Bowl + Roller Mini Ramp in Aspen, Colorado: a mountain-home indoor build.
- The Inside Scoop on Creating an Epic Indoor Skate Bowl: how an indoor bowl comes together.
- Wood Skateboard Bowl with Skatelite and Skatepaint: a wood bowl with a Skatelite surface.
- Backyard Skate Bowl Gallery: more bowls we've built.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take to build a custom skateboard bowl?
For this project, about two months to prefabricate the four corners in our warehouse, then roughly 7 to 10 days to install on site. A custom bowl built from scratch on site can take months.
Why are custom skateboard bowls expensive?
Each bowl corner needs compound miter and bevel cuts with a different angle on every piece. The labor and precision add up, and custom details like special-order coping add to it.
Can you build an indoor skateboard bowl in a basement?
Yes. This Park City bowl is designed for a basement-level sports area. We prefabricate the corners so they can be moved into place before the rest of the house is finished.
What surface do you use on a custom bowl?
This bowl will have a Skatelite Pro top surface for a smooth, long-lasting ride.
Do you build wood and concrete skateparks?
Yes. We build indoor bowls and outdoor public skateparks, in wood or concrete.
Want Something Fully Custom?
If you're looking for something fully customized, whether it's an indoor bowl or an outdoor public skatepark, wood or concrete, we do it all. For smaller out-of-the-box projects, our standard ramp kits are on the website. For custom, there's no limit!