We took a trip up to northern Maine to visit the dog parks up there (Millinocket, Presque Isle, Caribou, Fort Kent) and since the border is right there, we headed just a bit further north to visit Edmunston, New Brunswick, Canada.
We are running a survey on the perceptions and use of dog parks and we need your input!
Over the weekend, Maizey and I tried to beat the heat by spending time in some ocean-side cities to catch a few parks and check out some of the dog-friendly locations which we had missed on our previous trips.
Maine involved some of the furthest travel - and I still have not been able to get to all of the parks in the state. It has also been one of the most frustrating states to actually FIND the parks. Google frequently has the wrong information on the location of the park...
Great news from the IRS! They have approved our application and we are officially a 501(c)(3) organization!
Most of our Connecticut visits have been in December, January, February, and March. We have a few more parks to visit around the Hartford area (and a few that were added to the list by people at the parks I was visiting asking “Oh. did you visit XYZ park yet?”).
So, if you follow this page, you might meet us as we finish up the parks around Hartford – and then take a trip to catch the straggling (new) entries
Over four weekends in November and December of 2024, we visited (what I thought was) all of the dog parks in Vermont… I have since discovered there is one additional park to visit (in Ludlow.) The parks in Vermont were (for the most part, and unsurprisingly) bigger than the “standard” park in many other locations.
Over two weekends at the end of the summer in 2024, I visited (what I thought was) all of the dog parks in Rhode Island... I have since discovered there are two additional parks to visit (in Newport and Cumberland) - which I hope to visit this summer. Despite being...
Over several months in 2024, I visited almost all of the dog parks in Massachusetts…
Massachusetts has the most parks of all the New England States, clocking in at over 130 areas designated as dog parks. Other “dog friendly spaces” were not counted in the survey.
We are starting with a survey of people’s perceptions about Dog Parks.
What do you like about your primary dog park? What do you not like about it?
Details on over 300 parks in the 6 new England States have been uploaded!
We still have to link the city/town locations on the map to the appropriate listing, but the parks are all listed under the “Dog Parks” tab in the main menu
Every year PetSafe sponsors a grant contest called “Bark for Your Park”.
This year They are giving a total of $150,000 to ten deserving communities, with five $25,000 grants dedicated to creating new parks and five $5,000 grants for park improvements and maintenance.
