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Mission Dolores Park

3.5 Bone Rating

7 Reviews

When the sun is shinning its hard to beat Dolores Park!
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Dolores St (at 20th St)
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 831-6821
www.sfgov.org/site/recpark_index...

Neighborhood: Castro
Category: Parks

Hours: Now Closed
Sun-Sat 6am-10pm

Fido Factors

Park Leash Policy
Off-leash only in certain areas
Permitted Dog Areas
All
Fenced Area
No
Park Size
Medium (10-20 acres)
Poop bags
Yes
Parking
Walk or use public transit.
Fog Factor
Low

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12/2 2:49pm

Laura

While I think this is a great open, sunny, grassy space for animals, please be safe with your pets.

Homeless animals frequent many open parks like this and while working at a vet hospital in San Francisco, I saw outbreaks of diseases like giardia and PARVOVIRUS that seemed to spread through the common park the dogs shared (Dolores Park). Please don't bring UNVACCINATED dogs to public parks! Parvo is deadly.

Other than that, location is really convenient for people in the Mission and it's close to lots of great shops and the neighborhood is pretty dog friendly in general. And the Mission gets tons of sun, which is fun!

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10/3 11:48am

louis h.

A great park with too much space to use! On warm weekends this place is full with people, tennis courts, basket ball courts, kids playground and bathrooms. There are usually alot of dogs near the top of the park near 19th and the playground, there is alot of space to throw the ball with the dog too.

I especially like the special evenings/days when they have events like symphony in the park or movies at night. The park is always dog friendly and fun

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10/2 4:59pm

twodogmuse

I stopped bringing my dog here after he suffered several incidents of violent diarrhea from drinking water out of the holes dug in the ground by other dogs. Even if he got one lap in before I was able to stop him he'd get the runs.
BUT...
What really made me stop going there was one of the park patrons. She had an English Bulldog, oh, sorry, an "Olde English Bulldog", excuse me.
She was there with a friend whose dog brought in a toy. My dog stole the toy. I took it away from him. He stole it again. Her dog tried getting it from him. My dog growled. I took the toy away. Her dog persisted with my dog. My dog got the toy again. Her dog persisted some more. I tried to take my dog out of the situation because I saw that he was getting annoyed by her dog and may let him have it at any second.
She said, "Oh, don't worry about my dog, he's thick but he'll get it eventually." I said, "Ok."
But I could see my dog getting more annoyed. Three times I tried to take him out the situation but was told not to worry by this lady. Finally, my dog had had enough.

A fight ensued.

Next thing I knew she had kicked my dog in the side as hard as she could.

It stopped my dog, alright.
It also stopped me. I was shocked. I was speechless. I felt my temperature raising. My face turning red. The tears welling. My fist clenching.

What I wanted to do: kick her. I wanted to yell and swear at her. I wanted to punch her.

What I did: Leash my stunned dog who was just looking up at me like "WTF just happened?" Walked up over the hill towards 18th Street. Sat down on the steps once I was out of sight and cried holding my little buddy next to me.

I never took him there again. Not once.
That was five or so years ago. He has since passed away.

My new dog and my partner's dog like to run around a bit but I still don't feel safe with them there. I've brought them there twice now and once I kept them on leash to whole time. The other time I was too worried that they would run up over the hill and in front of a Muni train so I put them back on leash and went home.

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9/27 6:46pm

Nicole

5 bones for the view, the rolling green grass hills, and the doggie drinking fountain. Minus one for the mud holes, the dog area being so close to the kids area (where dogs can't go), and using a fish-based fertilizer which might as well be dessert for my mutt. Audrey grew up here, she got puppy warts here and made good friends. We love Dolores.

Join Dolores Park Dogs for park clean ups and neighborly camaraderie. They have donuts on the weekends!

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9/21 7:41pm

Jennifer J.

This is such a great park for everything from dogs, to picnics, to people watching. Lots of room for fetch and fido is sure to meet lots of new friends.

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6/28 11:01am

mojoburnsrule

I like this park as a sunny place to to hispter watch. But frankly, as a dog park - it is low on my list if you're a leashed dog kind of person. Enter with caution if your dog isn't savvy around 100 off leash dogs.

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6/27 2:42pm

hilow

This place is dog heaven in the city! There's usually a group that comes right after work to let their dogs socialize.

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