Buckhannon Dog Park

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• Lauren
  Jun 12, 2021
  Quite a Surprise!

  We came over the river walk to walk our dog on campus! We were surprised by the dog park - it was empty at 730 AM on a dreary Saturday morning! Grass was cut and we sure loved the grass compared to the dirt dog parks in our home city! We usually bring our own water to dog parks but since we didn’t know we would find a dog park we weren’t prepared and the water spigot wasn’t on.

• Lisa
  Sep 17, 2019
  Great For The Dogs

  This former dump site was flattened, seeded with grass seed and turned into a dog park! What was an eye sore before is now one of the busiest parks in town! Swing by after work hours for the busiest time to play! Check out the message board for info and take a rest on a bend hi while you pup plays. Wastes stations and pick up bags are available. A beautiful water stations was made to look like a fire hydrant and a tunnel was made to look like a dog!

  If you have a dog that needs socialized, but isn’t ready to run with the big dogs, take the to the small dog area where they can play and still sniff other dogs though a fence!

• Liz
  Jul 28, 2019
  Big Dogs Only

  This park is maintained by volunteers who love this park, work hard for it, and want it to succeed. I hope it does. My review are for people, like me, who only have small dogs, and it’s a fair, honest review.

  This is one of the largest dog parks I’ve ever seen, which is why I was shocked to see such a tiny area for small dogs. I was told on Facebook that there almost wasn’t a small dog area at all, I should just be grateful that Buckhannon’s even trying, that I have “big city expectations” (I’m from WV and lived there most of my life), that if I want it to change I should volunteer or donate, etc. I understand that this park is special to people, but I wish someone had warned me before I spent my time taking my dogs there. That’s why I write this review. I always read reviews of dog parks before we try a new one.

  Again, this is for those of you who have small dogs: this isn’t the park for you. Don’t make a special stop here, like I did, unless the small dog area is expanded.

  If you have big dogs, bring them here. They’ll love it. This park was definitely designed with big dogs in mind, with no consideration for little dogs, at all. From what I was told on Facebook, the small dog area was an afterthought, and I should be grateful it exists.

  We travel a lot, and have been to many dog parks, mostly in Virginia and North Carolina. Some dog parks don’t have small dog areas, which means we have to wait for it to be empty to use it, or just pray that there are only small dogs that day. We never go back to those parks. It would have been better if this one had no small dog area at all instead of having an area that’s so tiny it’s insulting, especially if you look at the rest of the park. It’s probably the largest I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying a lot.

  Small dog areas, in my experience, usually occupy 1/4 to 1/3 of the entire park. In Buckhannon, a generous estimate is that the small dog area is about 1/40th the size of the entire park. It’s probably less than that. Also, the small dog area was the only place that had no benches or areas with toys / activities for the dogs. It was just a teeny tiny enclosed area with grass almost as tall as my chihuahuas.

  Most dog parks I’ve been to also don’t have grass, they have a wood chip floor. Grass has ticks, ants, other insects. Buckhannon isn’t far from Randolph County, an area famous for lumber, hardwood. If anyone from Buckhannon sees this, please consider contacting Armstrong or other lumber companies for a donation.

  I’m glad that Buckhannon’s trying, and that someone put forth the effort to create this park, and that big dogs have a new dog park, but small dog owners should skip this one. The day we went, the grass was so tall, my dogs couldn’t use the small dog area, so we got to enjoy the big dog area by ourselves for a few minutes until some larger dogs arrived, and we had to leave. While my chihuahuas do have some Golden Retriever and German Shepherd friends, it’s not safe for small and big dogs to be in the same area at a public dog park, because the small dogs could get attacked or even killed.

We dug up 4 pictures of dogs at Buckhannon Dog Park.

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