Skaters, get ready to do some serious shredding next month. After more than a decade of planning, the long-awaited Lynch Family Skatepark will finally open to the public on Nov. 14.

The Charles River Conservancy, which has been overseeing the project, announced the grand opening of the skate park Tuesday. The $3 million, 40,000-square-foot facility, located in East Cambridge underneath ramps to the Zakim Bridge, is the first skate park of its size in the Boston area.

Organizers say the skate park is designed for skaters of all skills levels as well as athletes in wheelchairs. It features three bowls reminiscent of empty swimming pools (the largest is 11 and a half feet deep) and a street skating area designed to mimic public locations like sidewalks and plazas — complete with stairs, ledges and other common street furniture.

“Skaters that like street are going to find enough street-type elements to satisfy their wants and needs, and then the same thing goes for the folks that like to ride transition in the bowl area,” said Doug Russell, the skate park's project manager. “There’s about a 50-50 split on terrain, so no matter if you like to ride street or transition, you’re going to find what you want.”

A panoramic view of the Lynch Family Skatepark, still under construction, as seen from a nearby parking lot. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Through community meetings, more than 400 local skaters and skateboarding professionals contributed ideas for the skate park’s design, which was done by the architecture and design firm Stantec and landscape architecture firm Halvorson Design Partnership, Inc. Construction of the skate park is being done by crews from California Skateparks and ValleyCrest Landscape Development.

For Boston’s skate community, the opening of the skate park can’t come soon enough.

“It’s a very monumental occasion for skateboarding in the city,” said Armin Bachman, the co-owner of Orchard Skateshop in Allston. “We’re psyched that it’s finally here and we’re really looking forward to the energy that it’s going to bring to the city and more opportunities.”

The skate park has been many years in the making, and next month’s grand opening will mark the end of a lengthy planning effort.

The skate park began as an idea two decades ago by sculptor Nancy Schön, of “Make Way for Ducklings” fame. Schön had noticed skaters were using her “Tortoise and Hare” sculptures in Copley Square for practice. Initially upset about the activity, Schön later learned the skaters had few skating options and decided to look into getting a skate park built. In 2002, Schön connected with Renata von Tscharner, who founded the Charles River Conservancy and was also looking into building a skate park.

For more than a decade the conservancy has overseen the project. Obtaining a piece of land was a major hurdle. The site of the park was among parcels of land used during the Big Dig. That land was formally designated for the skate park in 2013, but the site was also a former brownfield (industrial site) and had to be cleaned up before construction could begin. Construction on the park finally started in April.