Sheboygan, WI Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Section 118-479(a) of the Sheboygan Municipal Code lists six places where no person can skateboard at any time. The first is the area bordered by Ninth Street to the west, Erie Avenue to the north, Seventh Street to the east and Pennsylvania Avenue to the south. The rest are all city parks, all public parking lots, public areas within property zoned commercial or industrial, all municipal boardwalks, and the North Pier and South Pier. Because the text says "at any time", no hour of the day or season exempts skating in those places. Item (4) turns on how the property is zoned, so a public area on commercially or industrially zoned property is covered even outside the downtown boundary.

Subsection (b) extends the ban to wheeled skates. No person can roller skate, in-line skate or roller blade at any time on the sidewalk or other walkways within the areas in subsections (a)(1), (3), (4), (5) and (6). City parks, item (a)(2), are the one area left out of that list, so subsection (b) does not name park walkways.

Two other sections overlap. Section 70-3(d) separately provides that no person shall skateboard, roller skate, in-line skate or roller blade at any time on or upon any municipal boardwalk or any portion thereof. Section 118-480 adds a temporary closure of the enclosed area from Wisconsin Avenue to Michigan Avenue on Broughton Drive and North Third Street during LakeFest, the day of the Independence Day celebration and Coho Derby, when the area is closed for the lakefront activities; skateboarding, in-line skating, roller skating, bicycling and any form of vehicular traffic except police vehicles are prohibited there. The history note on § 118-479 lists Code 1975 § 26-23, an ordinance dated 7-7-97 and a final ordinance dated 3-16-98.