Pioneer Dog Park
Pioneer Dog Park in Utica, MI is a well-maintained dog park featuring separate areas for large and small dogs, fenced spaces, and amenities including seating benches and water fountains. The park requires an annual fee and key fob for access. It has good parking, is wheelchair accessible, and offers clean restrooms. However, the park lacks shaded areas and covered shelters, has limited seating, and gets muddy when wet. Community members are encouraged to clean up after their dogs, and the park is considered basic without agility equipment or swim areas.
Reviews
Requires a NULL-35 annual fee and key fob. That’s just as expensive as the stoney creek Metro Park pass which has a great dog park and is only 10 min away. No shade, no tables, a single bench per area. Better to have just left it as open field.
This dog park is okay, pretty basic. It is not open to the public, but sometimes you can get in if the gate is left open. Not much but fenced-in open space for the dogs to run in. Needs more dog play options and more people seating options. A couple of trees would be nice, too. There is one bench and a drinking fountain on each side, small dog and large dog sides. Gets very muddy when wet.
I appreciate we have access to the park. Most dogs are pretty well behaved and the ones that aren’t do get some community correction…. the problem is: absolutely zero shaded area making it almost unusable from 9AM to 7PM all summer. The mosquitos are also overwhelming. The parents from a football team take up all the parking as well. Sure, it’s only 30 dollars a year but it’s severely lacking in offerings. It’s basically a fenced field of super hard clay/rock with clumps of weeds and grass. Needs to be kept up better.
Plant some grass seed, get some shelter, rotate big and small park usage to keep dogs on grass instead of concrete like surface.
Nice size park with large area for big dogs.
People don’t clean up after their dogs much . Not the parks fault. There’s plenty of bags. But plenty of lazy owners too.
Very well kept park. Plenty of parking, some nice picnic benches and several clean and modern bathrooms. Good jumping point to many trails.