Halstead Square Dog Park

This used to be a wonderful little neighborhood dog park for puppies, small/medium dogs, and low energy large dogs with clean turf, and lately overrun with aggressive dogs with clueless owners who are don’t know how to control their dogs, and causing other dogs to become reactive, thereby making it another unsafe space for puppies to learn appropriate play behaviors and socialize. One owner even smacked his pitty MULTIPLE TIMES because he never trained him how to “drop it”/“leave it”. lol It took like 2 sec for me to redirect the dog with another toy, and he dropped the one he was chewing 🤷🏻‍♀️. Then the owner yelled profanities at me for saying that he’s teaching his dog to resource guard and become aggressive, the left the park yelling that I should never come back. These same owners aren’t paying attention to their dogs, obviously don’t pre-walk their dog to eliminate first, and then don’t pick up after their dogs. Half the park has just became a big stinky toilet of dried up feces and poo smears. The regulars are very friendly/chatty and very mindful of ensuring play doesn’t get too aggressive/rough, and excellent about giving their dog a timeout to settle down or leaving if their dog is unruly. Shaded in the afternoon. There is a light that comes on around 5:30ish for nighttime play. However, this place stinks when it gets hot, occasionally people don’t pick up after their pets. Ample free parking in the garage. Doggie bags provided but it doesn’t really have any play features.

A dog park at Halstead Square is located behind the Loft building under the residents' units. This park provides a clean dog playground and is open daily from 8 am to 10 pm. It has two sides of ground space for dogs to play, two benches, a water pipe, and a waste station.

Lots of Doods! There's a bench and water for the pups and people to sit. It's shaped like an L which is kind of weird as you can't see the whole park at once. Turf instead of grass. Overall nice people and pups who go here.

My dog likes this park. The people are always nice and dogs well behaved.

The dogs love they get to run a play. Agility obstacles if dogs are interested. The park is well maintained. A good dog space in an urban jungle.