Okay so I think this is a really great concept. However, the first time I went there, we were on the lake side. My dog couldn't find me, freaked out, jumped in the lake, went around the fence and bolted to the parking lot leaving me in the gated area and him running free. I just think the fence needs to run into water at least a little further so it wasn't so easy for my dog to escape. Anyway, she didn't seem interested in the lake anyway so we stay on the other side now. A bonus is that there is a place to wash the dog. I just brought along the dog shampoo and waa lah clean dog.
I have noticed A LOT of poop around. I wondered the other day why there is so much poop around. I mean how do you let your dog poop and then not clean it up when there are all these people around? Well, I watched and observed and found the answer. While dog is off running around playing with other dogs and sniffing everything to death and then has to take a potty break, owner is not paying attention. They are either yapping it up with someone and not paying attention OR they are talking or texting on their cell phones not watching to see what their dogs are doing. This leaves the task of minding the poop up to someone else - who wants to be the poop police?
I would have to say one of the biggest draw backs for me is that the play area for kids is really lame. It is not a one stop shop for us and that is kind of annoying. I think it would be really great if they play area was really geared towards kids playing on it then we wouldn't have to drive around to 2 separate parks.
All in all as dog parks go it is a very large and attractive dog park but there definitely are a lot of landmines.