DiMattina Dog Park

DiMattina Dog Park is a dog park actually as one of the pictures show. It is south of the children’s playground, and the entrance is on Hick’s Street. Although the park was renovated and reopened last year the community members involved agree that it could have been better.
Pros– Small dog run now available, good amount of benches for seating, lovely trees to provide shade, some nice landscaping attempted, two locations for hoses with working water, majority of owners are responsible and there are many regulars, lighted at night although treed areas still dark of course, parents may find it convenient to bring dog to play while watching baseball or softball game going on in adjacent field (although should pay more attention to their dog if staying in the run).
Cons — Dog walkers and irresponsible people let/​put their dogs into the tree and landscaping enclosures and some areas have been destroyed, the stone chosen is very dusty and dissolved into dust in many spots so dogs get very dusty/​dirty which is worsened in warm months by the hose areas which some people leave running after use creating giant mud puddles, trees near entrance drop berries in late Spring/​early Summer and many dogs spend the whole time eating the berries and get stained with berry juice when playing, small dogs beware the benches as they are made with a wide gap between the first two slats and legs often get stuck with potential to injure, digging has created multiple areas with holes that have been filled in or not, creating tripping hazards, under benches is not concrete so dogs have taken to digging holes that never get filled in and thus invite more dogs to dig, doggy pool with drain hole which may be a pro if you like to let your dog cool off in water but it tends to stay very dirty and dogs will always drink from it-it’s very heavy material even empty so difficult to clean out regularly and many dogs regularly jump in during games of chase and jump out soaking wet so soon all dogs at play are soaking wet and muddy even if they didn’t go near the pool.
We’ll keep going here because it really is fairly nice for the options in the area and the regulars are nice people. I just wanted to be detailed for the sake of the review. FYI– although there is now a «small dog side» most people still use the original (large dog) side for all sizes. It’s more of an unspoken rule that if someone has a dog that should not be around other dogs, they go into the empty small-​dog side and toss a ball or otherwise exercise their dog. Unfortunately, some people do not bother to do this and our own dog has been attacked by a ball aggressive dog.

Yes. Not a dog park, but a nice children’s park. Not usually crowded and has options for 2 – 5 and 5+. A little more precarious for under 2.