CarvePDX is back, bitches!
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Where: Portland, OR
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When: June 26-28th 2026
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Bring: Your esk8, a helmet, and a good attitude. Come to Portland, one of the skate friendliest cities in America.
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Hosts: PNWesk8 crew! To keep things fresh and fun and fair, we decided to trade off years for CarvePDX and CarveSEA moving forwards. This gives both communities a break and keeps both events alive!
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Cost: Free. Save your dollars for quirky lodging, delicious food, and your crippling esk8 addiction.
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Telegram Channel: Join for ongoing conversation/planning/hype! Probably a good idea to mute notifications until the day of the event 
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Helmets are required for all riders at all times, and we strongly encourage additional safety gear. Weāre very serious about this. If you roll up to a ride without a helmet, you will be asked to leave. Please donāt make it awkward, just wear the fucking lid.
Alright Party People
After a 2 year hiatus (wherein the CarvePDX staff gladly kicked back and enjoyed attending CarveSEA) we return to once again skate Portland and have fun with our friends in this beautiful city. Carve PDX is a multi-day esk8 event set in Portland, Oregon and hosted by the Pacific Northwest Esk8 community. That means all your faves from Portland and Seattle are coming together to make this event awesome.
Come join us for a weekend of skating around the gorgeous PNW. Portland is one of the skate capitals of the US, with hundreds of miles of dedicated bike paths, trails, & plenty of streets to shred & hang with friends. In Portland, you can legally street ride and are offered the full protections as bicyclists. Combined with an average speed limit of 20-25mph for cars, this makes a perfect environment for us to descend upon with our electric murder sticks.
Portland Oregon is my hometown, and I am super excited to see everyone again this year + hopefully many new faces.
Daily event schedule for Carve PDX 2026 will be posted in the near future!
(photo credit
@rusins)
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Where should I stay?
Inside the purple border! The heart emoji is the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (AKA āOMSIā), which is the meet-up and ending point for most of our rides. I highly recommend picking a location that is close to OMSI, so you donāt spend a bunch of your range getting to/from OMSI before/after each ride!
Lodging is expensive in Portland, so you should definitely consider sharing! If you want to share lodging but dont have anyone in mind, post here or in the Telegram group to find some people with space.
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Will there be stickers/swag?
Absolutely! We take pride in commissioning independent artists to design beautiful art for stickers and other swag. Stickers and swag are always free for attendees, but that doesnāt mean they cost nothing to make! If you are able and willing to donate to our Art fund, please do so! It helps us keep this event awesome and free for everyone.
Also, thereās a rumor that some underground glass artist makes dozens of pendants each year and gives them away at Carveā¦ No one is quite sure, but if you ask around you may get lucky.
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Iām devastated 
Iāll be on vacation that week with the family on the other coast.
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Found this forum a couple of weeks ago while going down a PEV rabbit hole on YouTube, kept it open in a tab. Havenāt been on any kind of skateboard since the late ā80s, but I got an AT two days ago, tried it out in the Fred Meyer parking lot behind Powell Park, then had a great time riding around on Tabor yesterday, came back to check this out again today, andā¦ uhā¦
ā¦you know, between ā30 miles of range riding hard on hilly terrainā and āweāre not going to go slower to accommodate eScooters/Onewheelsā and, most especially ā[weāre] back, b*tches,ā I actually kind of appreciate having such clear signals that this event isnāt for me.
But thank you (seriously!) for posting something that showed up in a search for portland oregon electric skateboarding group, because now that I have taken another look, I see that this is a whole Discourse forum. So maybe Iāll lurk for a bit, poke around, and see if I can pick up some useful info in other threads.
Hope yāall have fun out there.
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It takes a while to re familiarize oneself when one has has a 35 year break from riding skateboards, much less stepping on something with several horsepower and 20 miles of range, which didnāt exist back then.
Those who have refined their skills and their equipment, find riding slowly, to be boring.
Good to know oneās limits though.
I got out of skating in the late 80ās when wheels got small and hard, filled with a seething disgust. Got a longboard in ā94 though.
Electrified something similar about 2 years ago. Iād be surprised if I have skated less than 6K miles since then.
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Relatable! NGL, I might have created an account just to make a spite post, but maybe one of the benefits of age is being able to realize: hey, not everything has to be for or about me. 
Honestly, Iāve searched for electric skateboards every few years for what feels like a decade, but just was never able to find something I felt confident dropping $2-3k on. Getting a capable sub-$1k board that solves the two things that kept me away from skateboards for most of my life (those being āSURPRISE YOUāRE RUNNING NOWā and āhills=deathā) is kinda great. That it can carry my 250-pound ass up an extinct volcano? Amazing. And as someone whoās become very good at their day job, I like finding ways to be a n00b again every so often.
So, yeah, sincerely, I hope yāall have fun out there.
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I really appreciate the good attitude. We donāt have anything against slower riders, itās just that most of us have dedicated a good chunk of our lives to this sport and on average are higher skilled (faster) riders.
There are some rides at this event that are pretty slow, like the one on Friday night
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Good to know. I usually have my kiddo on Fridays, but Iāll keep an eye on this thread and see how I feel about it when summer rolls around. I might even be able to talk them into getting on their JackRabbit and riding down with me to check out yāallās gear and lights and shit.
