Escapist Skateboarding

Specialties

Kansas City’s premier skateboard shop, offering a vast selection of skateboards, footwear, clothing and accessories. Skateboarder owned and operated.

Our downtown location also has an art gallery space showcasing skate-​related artists during First Fridays.

Brands carried: 187, 3D Skateboards, 5 Boro, Adidas Skateboarding, Almost, Altamont, Anti Hero, The Back Forty, Baker, Birdhouse, Black Label, Blind, Blood Wizard, Bones Wheels, Bones Bearings, Brigada, Brixton, Chocolate Skateboards, Cliché, Coalatree, Converse Cons, Creature, DC Shoes, Element, Emerica, Enjoi, Es, Etnies, Fallen, Flip, Fourstar, The Friend Ship, Fucking Awesome, Girl Skateboards, Glassy, Grizzly, Habitat, Heroin Skateboards, Hopps, Hosoi, Huf, Independent, Isle, Krew, Krooked, Krux, Lakai, Leatherman, Levi’s Skateboarding, Lifeblood, Lowcard, Magenta, Matix, Mob, Mouse, New Balance Numeric, Nike SB, Palace, Plan B, Polar, Politic, Powell Peralta, Primitive, The Quite Life, Real, Ricta, Santa Cruz, Scumco & Sons, Send Help, Skate Mental, Slave, Sml, Spitfire, Stance, Stereo, Thrasher, Thunder, Tired, Toy Machine, Traffic, Transportation Unit, Vans, Venture, Volcom, Welcome, WKND, Zero.

History

Established in 2000.

Escapist was created by life-​long skateboarders to help grow and strengthen Kansas City skateboarding.