🐾 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 […]
The Mountain Lake Park Dog Play Area is a popular pet-friendly destination nestled in the Richmond District of San Francisco, California. This dog park is unique because of its open, unfenced layout surrounded by plenty of woods and bushes, offering an off-leash experience for dogs that respond well to voice control. Located at the corner of Mountain Lake Park, it’s a favorite for locals who enjoy spending quality time in a relaxed, natural setting with their pups.
The area features wood chip ground cover to keep things cleaner and softer for canine paws, a brand new water station, and an abundance of benches and picnic tables for dog owners to relax and socialize. While there is no fenced enclosure, the park enjoys a substantial setback from the street, and is equipped with amenities that make it wheelchair accessible and family-friendly. The park is well maintained and offers a nice blend of pet-friendly trails, shade from mature trees, and picnic areas—perfect for a sunny afternoon with your pup.
Love this place, we go there to hang with dogs because we don’t have any. Last time we were there, we spotted this red shouldered hawk sitting in the tree keeping an eye on the lil pups
Pretty good dog park as long as you know what you’re getting into. I’ve brought my dog probably 50 times over the past couple years. At rush hour, you can guarantee (no exaggeration) one incompetent owner’s dog will start something with another incompetent owner’s dog. Inevitably neither dog will have any voice control, the usual shouting and running or fast walking will fire up, one dog will be placed on a leash for 5 minutes, no one will get hurt per usual, but it will all happen again next time. Today it was a big fluffy German Shepherd, but it could be any dog tomorrow. Though today was a bit special in that an unhoused and definitely mentally unwell person wandered into the park, tried to touch me (this is highly unusual), spooked the vast majority of the dogs into barking, and hung out for a few minutes at which point most people had intentionally scattered. Then a minute after the person leaves, a cop shows up warning people about the person being on drugs and dangerous. In a 15 minute window, this was my Tuesday after work at the neighborhood dog park. Have fun, and good luck to you and your dog. It will probably be fine.
Great group of people and pups! 🐶
– Wood chip ground cover
– Unfenced (good amount of setback from cars)
– Nice new water station
– Lots of benches and picnic tables for the humans
P.S. – @sutrobythesea says hello!!
Small little un-fenced dog area (off leash permitted in this designated dog area) at the corner of Mountain Lake park. Area was clean with several benches, not too grassy, majority wood mulch. Came here on a Friday afternoon 2pm-ish, no other dogs here.
Lovely place; forgot to take photos of the dog play area – it’s definitely great if your dog can be well controlled. There’s no fence to other area or to the street. A lot of woods and bushes. If the dog went on and chase other dogs, no visibility. Be careful. Otherwise, such a nice place!