How teens brought a skate park to their Native American reservation

The skate park was a community effort. (Deidra Honyumptewa)

The village of Tewa, Ariz., recently ramped up its skating scene.

Kids living on the Hopi reservation get to drop in on a new halfpipe in the town’s first-ever skate park thanks to a team of five teens known as Skate264.

“There wasn’t really any place to skate down here. Most of the surrounding area is just dirt and rocks,” said Quintin Nahsonhoya, one of the skate collective’s co-leads.