Ankeny Dog Park
Ankeny Dog Park offers a fenced area with separate sections for small and large dogs, making it ideal for dogs of all sizes. The park is wheelchair accessible and requires a paid tag for entry, which helps maintain the park’s quality. Visitors appreciate the available biodegradable poop bags, and the park has a water fountain near the entrance. While there is no extensive shade, there is a pond area in a separate enclosure for dogs to enjoy. The park is family-friendly with a rule that children under 10 are not allowed for safety reasons.
Reviews
Entry way is close to water fountain area. Plan to stagger in entryway if you have big dogs, lots of room to sniff thru the fence. Not a lot of shade.
Water pond area is in a separate enclosure.
Great park..!! No kids under 10!!!
People please purchase your dog park tags before you come.
You can purchase a tag from hyvee , that helps keep it nice and the people are usually legit dog people..
Kids under 10 not allowed for safety reasons , which makes sense to me.. The dogs can really get running around fast…
This is a great park for legit dog people, follow the rules or don’t come in… 🙂
Extremely greedy of the owner/s to try to monetize a traditionally public service, the town is a common stop on roadtrips and many people want to let their dogs out. Nobody should have to pay or provide any records to use a dog park that to my knowledge is built on public land. It’s shameful to expect people to pay and it’s humiliating that people do.
Not everyone picks up their dogs fecal matter. However, the provided poop bags are biodegradable and go down a shoot very easily. Most dogs get along with each other, and the separation between large and small is a great idea. We have a very small mature dog. There are some places in the fence line that are open and can allow them to escape. This needs to be addressed. If they are not fixed by the next time I go, I will be taking zip ties.
On the residential side of the small dog park, there is a vehicle entry gate, and occasionally, the mud ruts made from the tires also allow for a space for smaller dogs to get out.
We were driving through on a road trip and wanted to give our dogs a break. Found what looked like a great dog park on the map. Sorry to say you have to buy some type of pass to receive some type of code to get inside of the park. Such BS. Skip this place. All parks should be free for people and dogs.