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Sorry for not getting back to you. One feature on our list of to-do's is to create a trip advisor or travel guide with all of our information. But as yet, the only way to help you is to check our each state you will be traveling through and see if there are parks near your travel route.

WE NEED SPACE FOR DOGS TO GET OUT AN JUST HAVE FUN. ON THIS TRIP WE ARE GOING SLOW TAKING A MONTH OUR AND BACK. IF WE COULD LINE UP A FEW PARKS FOR THE DOGS IT WOULD BE GREAT, WE ARE LEAVING FROM NORTH CAROLINA AND GOING TO CORNING CA. THANKS FOR ANY HELPFUL DIRECTIONS OR OTHER PLACES. HELEN

My wife and I lost our home to hurricane Ivan and decided to tour the country with our dogs (Twin puggles Jack and Jinjer), vowing to hit a different dog park for every month we were on the road, we hit parks from South Florida to Northern California and throughout the southeast and mid Atlantic, it was a great experience. We built a travel blog to document our journeys and thought that people who visit this site might get a kick out of it since we most here will have the perspective on traveling with dogs as we do, basically, They go where we go :)

And as everyone always asks, which was the puggles favorite park... from what we could tell, they liked Carmel, CA's off leash beach :) As far as traditional dog park, I think they liked the Millie Bark Park in Houston TX, so big, so many places to run and so many dogs to meet.

If you ever want to ask us a question about a dog park, or where to go, please feel free to email us!

Safe Travels,
Randy and Sharon Hamilton

Helo there!! I am trying to get a group of people together to request space or a current park to be donated for a Dog Park in Norwalk, CA.
I read your post and you mentioned that the city provided you the land space as long as the park was PRIVATELY FINANCED (which sounds like a good deal). I'm assuming you organized fund-raisers and possibly got donations from Nurseries and such. Now, in case our city comes up with a similar proposal I want to find out how much the overall cost was to build your park... I want to inform myself as much as I can, and get estimates so I can have a good idea of how hard we need to work. I'll appreciate any information you can provide. Thank you!

Thanks for this great update. Could you tell us where this new dog park is located. This sounds like it will be a great place to have fun, and it is so neat that the community came together like that.

Our community in central Arizona deserves an exclusive park where dogs can be dogs and play in a safe environment- and so do our communities dogs. We have many visitors to our area and they too need a place to let their dogs romp and relax. We have had many confrontations by non-dog lovers at the local fields when we've taken our dogs to play so I decided it was time that we made an effort to create an off leash park JUST for dogs. Thankfully our City was responsive and provided us with 1 1/3 acres for a park as long as we could privately finance it. We had our first meeting in January of 2007 and last weekend we planted the grass seed! We hope to be open around the 1st of October of this year and then the park will become a city park.

As with any volunteer organization it has been a LOT of work with a very FEW dedicated people. But we were determined to succeed for our dogs and that had a very positive influence on our City administrators. We patiently explained to everyone that we simply HAD no time to waste since we were working in "dog years" to finish it!

We planted the grass seed a week ago and most of the fencing has been completed. We have 3 areas: large dog, small/shy dog and a training/discipline area that will be used by multiple local law enforcement groups for their seasonal k9 training. We hope to have a wading pool in the two main areas and will have self closing gates into each area off of a fenced entry area. Our irrigation system is fed from the city irrigation ditch and we have fresh water available as well. A local nursery is offering contractors pricing to anyone that would like to purchase a tree to place in our park. So it's really coming together....in spite of our recent economic down turns.

Hope you all stop by and enjoy our park whenever you're in the neighborhood!

Jody, Leah & Lima

I live in Lincoln City, Oregon, and my Australian Shepherd Fridley gets regular walks and occasional off-leash romps on the beaches in the area. Winter months are wonderful, and most weekdays he gets a little time off-leash. However, we miss having a dog park nearby. I recognize that not everyone on the beach wishes to become acquainted with the word's most affectionate Aussie, and that their dogs may or may not be socialized enough to handle an enthusiastic encounter. So he only goes off-leash when there are no other people or dogs nearby.

We've done a lot of traveling around the country, and try to find dog parks wherever we go. When I get a little time, I'll go through your listings and try to add some off-leash areas we've been to - and add information about others, if needed.

But right now, we're heading off to Salem, to find the 2 dog parks in that area - thanks to your website, we know where to look!