After months of design work and construction, Lakeland residents will soon be able to enjoy a new skate park.
The park, complete with 12-foot-deep bowls for skating and extreme bike ramps, is set to open May 18 at Lake Bonnie Park, across the street from Lakeland High School.
City officials say they worked with the Lakeland Skate Alliance to see what features skaters wanted in a park.
"It's going to be one of the nicer municipal parks in the state," said Kevin Cook, Lakeland's communications director. "You've got a very large bowl; you have what’s called a flow course; you have a snake run; you have what I call a baby bowl, as well for those who don’t want to get in a bowl that’s 12 or 13 feet deep."
The new skate park cost the city a little more than $1 million to build. The funding came from the sale of the former park.