🐾 Kids at the Dog Park: Real Stories, Safety Risks & Smarter Solutions
If you’ve spent time at an off-leash park, you’ve probably seen it:A parent strolls in with a stroller 🚼 or […]
Cocoa Dog Park is a welcoming, pet-friendly destination located in Williamstown, KY, offering spacious, grassy areas where your dogs can play and socialize. The park features three separate enclosures, allowing flexibility for dogs of different sizes and energy levels. Local families appreciate the dog-friendly atmosphere and well-maintained grass, making it an enjoyable spot for both dogs and their owners who are looking for a safe, fun place to exercise their pets off-leash in Grant County.
Visitors will find several thoughtful amenities at Cocoa Dog Park, including water spigots and sturdy bowls at each section to keep pups hydrated. There are benches with awnings providing limited shade for owners to relax while their dogs play. Though parking is available, guests should be prepared to walk down a steep hill to access the dog park, and some visitors recommend improvements to bag and trash services.
It would be great if they could add a better way to get down. I always take my children with me and it’s a struggle getting a stroller down the hill. And needs better shade for the benches, the ones that were built don’t shade at all…
I was disappointed. It was only a fence in area. They had three different baggie stations and all three were empty. I wish they would have had something to exercise my dog. The parking sucks. You have to park and walk down a steep hill to get to it.
I like the water spigots for each station, the sturdy water bowls are a nice touch, too. The awnings over the benches are thoughtful as well. The grass is always cut nice.
I’m a local and would volunteer to empty trash cans and restock “doggy” bags, as needed, if they were supplied. I have been to the park several times and not once has there been a bag available, or a place to put the one we filled up. Most of the trash cans were over flowing and it wasn’t a place I was proud to be or proud to offer our fur babies and guests/tourists.
Could use a few steps or landings etched out of the hill leading from the parking lot, maybe divert the water away from the gates so it’s not as muddy.
I almost always have my toddler with me, and our “new” dog has a bad habit of eating and rolling in poop, so these things really matter to us lol.
Nova loves getting her leash off (after all gates are secured & closed) and running full speed from one end to the other. There are multiple gated sections but we have been the only ones there in the evening recently so it’s quite nice!!
My dogs are small, they could get out under the fence and at the gaps in the gates. I appreciate this small community putting in 3 separate enclosures, and nice grass, I just wish my girls had been able to run and enjoy the space.