Independence Park

Been coming to this park for YEARS.
The park is always clean and there is plenty of parking. The pool is great and cheap to get into. There are showers, locker rooms and restrooms available. There are plenty of lifeguards on duty at all times. They also offer swimming lessons in the morning.
There is a huge basketball court that is lined with multiple hoops in the center of the park.
Great view for 4^th of July fireworks with two bleachers. Love it!

This place sucks! The park is ill-​equipped for you to pick up after your animal. The grass was high and other dog owners do not take a proactive role in keeping their eyes on their own dogs. My girlfriend and I brought our doberman Titan here to run and was almost attacked by a pack of over aggressive Pitbulls. Never come here, don’t waste your time

If you wanna take your dogs to a crappy dog park come to this one. it’s available. I wouldn’t recommend it, but do enter at your own risk.
The smaller dog park lacks a lot of things. One thing I’m failing to understand is just because a breed of dog is small, why make the section for them tiny?! I mean, they need space and room to run, play, jump, and socialize too! The larger breed dog park is huge – it’s about at estimate a parking lot size whereas the smaller dog park is at estimate two guest bedrooms combined together.
Now, the larger dog park had jumping activities, several benches to sit, and enough space. Though, the smaller dog park had one table with shade – two ladies crowded the table. Two filthy buckets of water with brown dirt caked on the bottom. It had dead flies laying in the water – plus it probably had all kinds of saliva from sick and healthy dogs. It was pretty gross.
In both small and large dog parks, it wasn’t no doggie poop bags. They were stone cold out! I had to give this lady two bags of what I bought.
The park was pathetic. It was strange because it was workers there in the park and its not like they seemed to care about what the park lacked. I guess they were there for the money only.
Also, back in 2012 when my sister and I came out with Pocky and his sister the larger dog park had a hole in the fence. My two babies got out of the gate onto incoming traffic. I’m not sure if they fixed that or not, but that was a huge issue.
Now, the event Paws in the Park was pretty ok. They had a lot of vendors selling things: dog clothing, accessories, nail trims, dog rescue groups, doggie pool, and lots of dogs.
The event is free with free parking. That’s the nice.
However. the park is crap. It was bare-​minimum – not a great park at all.

Cute little park in a quiet little neighborhood.
Decent trails. The Hike & Bike trail is .6 miles (so 1.2 miles round trip) and the lighted trail (loop) is .38 miles.
Only cons are the non-​locking/​barely closing bathroom doors, the lack of place to put clothes when changing in said bathrooms (although Tom Bass only has Porto-​Potties so guess this isn’t that bad), and having to drive Liberty Drive all the way around to exit. There is an exit to Pearland Parkway on the other side but it’s been closed every time I’ve gone.
There’s a lot of opportunity here but for a quick lunchtime getaway, it works.