The Rusch Skate Park has always been an energetic spot where young people show up, push themselves and build community. Now it is more so.

CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA (MPG) – It’s Saturday morning and a young skateboarder is carving his way up and down the curved concrete walls of the Rusch Skate Park, located in the Rusch Community Park in Citrus Heights.

He’s soon joined by two others ready to begin their speedy morning moves artfully speeding through the park’s creative lines.

Each has noticed a colorful new mural this piece by MAMMXTH (pronounced “mammoth”) on the Sunrise Recreation and Parks District maintenance building wall just behind them which depicts a bicyclist, rollerblader and a skateboarder each seeming to jump out from the wall as if ready to take flight.

They smile and look back with approval, but there’s no real time to talk, just time to find their position on the top of a banked edge and then plunge in wherever the rush of their ride will soon take them.

A skateboarder carves up a curved wall at the Rusch Skate Park in the Sunrise Community Park.

The Rusch Skate Park has always been an energetic spot where young people show up, push themselves and build community. Now it is more so.

The Sunrise Recreation and Parks District has partnered with Citrus Heights Arts and has added a new mural which depicts that spirit, spelling out “Rusch” in large letters. Three young silhouettes watch as each of the three figures riding on bright, neon-blue wheels seem to define gravity on their terms.

The 9,000-square-foot Rusch Skate Park at 7413 Antelope Road, open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., is a place where you can lose track of time, just watching speed and perfection as riders string together their endless runs with imagination and flair. If you’re into bowls, banks and carving speed, Rusch is essential. Check it out.

A colorful new mural piece by MAMMXTH (pronounced “mammoth”) on the Sunrise Recreation and Parks District maintenance building wall at the Rusch Skate Park depicts a bicyclist, rollerblader and a skateboarder each seeming to jump out from the wall as if ready to take flight.

For more information call the Sunrise Recreation and Parks District at 916-725-1585.