The group has a goal of raising $100,000 to go towards the project

The group has a goal of raising $100,000 to go towards the project

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The group has a goal of raising $100,000 to go towards the project

An Upstate nonprofit called "Skate Upstate" is raising money to build a public skateboard park.

Peter Hyatt started the nonprofit earlier this year.

“Skateboarding is a popular sport, it’s a new sport that’s in the Olympics now and a lot of kids want to do it," said Hyatt. "We have amazing baseball fields and soccer fields, but there’s an underserved group of kids in youth that skateboard, and we just need a place for them to do that.”

Hyatt said the goal is to raise money to build a safe place for people of all ages to skateboard and do tricks.

“I have four kids myself, and to have kids out riding on the streets is just not safe, and you really need a place where kids can go find community and have a safe place that’s made just for skateboarding," said Hyatt.

Hyatt said Clemson Park would be a good potential location where there is empty space next to the pump track. However, there is no confirmed location at this time.

"The skatepark would be fully concrete. It would look very different than the pump track," said Hyatt. "Pump tracks are for rolling, skateparks are for tricks even though you can ride anything on both of them, but it would have ramps and bowls and stairs and rails to slide on. Very, very different than a pump track."

Clemson City Council member John Fulmer said a public skateboard park at Clemson Park could be part of a bigger vision to revitalize the park.

“I think it’s a no brainer. I think we need to do it, we need to compliment this, we need to build out this park," said Fulmer. "My vision and others would be you put your skatepark there and landscape around that, and then you could do a splashpad above that and then obviously revitalize the shelter there.”

To make this vision a reality, Hyatt said it will be a community effort.

“Whether its $50 or $5,000, we really need people to be apart of this, so when they show up to this skatepark one day, they say, 'Hey, I helped get that built,'” said Hyatt.

To donate, visit the nonprofit's website.

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