Millbrook Exchange Park
Millbrook Exchange Park is a welcoming and well-equipped community park in Raleigh featuring a dedicated dog park with separate areas for large and small dogs, fenced spaces, water stations, and shaded spots. The park offers a variety of amenities including tennis courts, baseball and basketball courts, playgrounds, picnic areas, and hiking trails. It is accessible with wheelchair-friendly entrances and parking. Visitors appreciate the clean and dog-friendly environment, though some have noted social challenges among regular dog park users.
Reviews
I went here for the first time this last weekend. It was an amazing dog park with areas for large and small dogs. They had water filling stations in the fenced off area as well as shaded and non-shaded areas. Loved all of the areas for my dog to play.
I was mainly here to watch tennis. Im from out of town and extremely impressed by all of the tennis courts. There in excellent condition. Grounds was very neat & tidy. Plenty of stations for doggie bags/waste disposal. Pet friendly. Only concern is the bleachers at court 23 was wobbly and could be unsafe.
This park is wonderful! My third time visiting today, but I was disappointed to see several owners not removing their aggressive dogs from the park. The number of people neglecting good dog ownership by not removing their dog if it becomes aggressive is something I have never witnessed before. Regardless of whether dogs are biting or not, aggressive behavior is aggressive behavior. As a pet owner, you should learn and practice respectful dog language.
While it is a great space and layout, as any others noted there are huge issues here. One is (as noted many times by others) the clique mentality here of the “long lived regulars” who think their dogs can do no wrong. One of the dogs who is a regular around 11 am-2 pm (worst time to come) bit my arm through layers of clothes and broke skin. I was trying to get my dog away from hers as it was growling and about to attack my puppy.When I told her – ZERO apology and zero offers for proof of shots. My dog was also attacked for trying to play with two “regulars” – pinned and TRAUMATIZED. Naturally, my dog is petrified of the dogs who did this. One of the owners then tried multiple times to come up to us with treats and “train” my dog to become used to hers post attack – not happening. My trainer was livid to hear this as it scares to crap out of my dog and only builds reactivity. My dog has reason to be scared, but they of course blamed my dog due to their herd mentality group. Additionally, way too many people bring kids and allow them to run around, shoot dogs w water guns or poke them w sticks. As an owner of herding dogs (one a rescue with awful experiences with kids in the past so naturally very afraid of them), this is a nightmare in real time. Parents do not watch their kids here and the regulars see it as a social clique and not a place they should watch their dogs. They will try to blame newer dogs for reacting naturally to the trauma around them as opposed to the environment. It can be good very early am (7 am) and 4 pm-5, but even then, there are many other amazing parks my dogs have had zero problems at. The culture at this park is toxic.
Great public and free facilities. I visited the tennis courts which were very full featured in addition to have ball machine rentals. Will be back soon!