Pushwood App: Radar for Skateparks

[Editor's Note: Pushwood's site is no longer in service. We've kept their story here.] Scouting out new places to skate? The Pushwood App is a super cool community-powered database of skateparks. If you have an iPhone, you're in luck. The app provides birds-eye view satellite images along with user-generated photos. There's even a skatepark battle where parks duke it out in a popularity contest. If you're on a Cross-Country (or Trans-Atlantic) Skateboard Safari, the Pushwood app is a gotta-have. As of this writing, Pushwood's top ten user-rated skateparks are:  

• Ocean Beach Skatepark (Robb Field) - San Diego, California
• Bowling Green Skatepark - Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Memorial - San Diego, California
• OTT Family YMCA Skate Park - Tucson, Arizona
• Nathan Lazarus Skatepark - Nederland, Colorado
• Desert Breeze Skatepark - Las Vegas, Nevada
• Shawnee Skatepark - Shawnee, Kansas
• Newport Skate Park Newport, UK
• Nashville Skatepark - Nashville, Tennessee
• Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA - Encinitas, California

  The app is compatible with iPhones, the iPod touch, and the iPad. It's optimized for iPhone 5, but will run on the iPod Touch and the iPad, as well, as long as you're running iOS 4.3 or later. Best of all? It's free!