On Saturday, the city of Missoula will add another skatepark to its resume, this time a 10,000-square-foot indoor facility.

The Fiftytwo Skatepark has a 2,000-square-foot bowl with a 5-foot-deep section and a 9-foot-deep section. Its 6,000-square-foot street course includes a quarter-pipe ramp, a vert ramp, loading docks, a hubba, a pier 7, an A-frame, a wally-box, Euro and a few rails.

The other 2,000 square feet of the facility include a lounge and skate shop, which will sell boards, trucks, wheels and bearings, and do tune-ups on skateboards.

“This town is very progressive and you have a great outdoor park,” said pro skater and co-founder Jayme Erickson. But “kids need something to do in the winter.”

Erickson has ranked in the top 10 for female professional skateboarders, but has not competed for about a year and a half because she and Tucker, her husband and the park’s co-founder, just had their first child, Aydan.

Erickson said she’s going to try to get back into competition soon.

“Hopefully I can get back into shape,” she said.

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