It's a big enough area for your pup to play. Most people seem to keep an eye on their dogs There is seating around and in a covered area to sit under My pup looped the perimeter twice, Checked out some other pups and then he went to the gate and we went home. Spent about 45 mins there. Will go again. GPS will tell you that you are "here" in the middle of the intersection of 10th and Gage ... "Here" is actually gage park and to the immediate right of entering the overall park ... tip: type in gauge park instead. Same place.. but the directions to the puppy park will announce your arrival in the intersection.. if you're not from here, you may not notice it's actually tucked up into Gage park. I sure didn't. We circled in a neighborhood until I happened to take a chance and turn into the park read more

Good place to bring your pup as long as he/she has good manners and the owners are watching their pup. read more

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Absolutely love this dog park, there are 2 separate areas for big and small dogs. Every time I take my 2 french bulldogs everyone is extremely friendly. I've had no bad encounters and my dogs are well behaved. I've taken my older frenchie in with the big dogs and had no problems. Someone told me her small dog had a bad experience in there with the big dogs and I had no problems. I made sure to tail my dog from a far just be be safe and intervene if necessary and it seems like that's what most big dog owners do. If your dog isn't good with other dogs don't bring it. Every bad encounter is based off of owners and they're inability to understand their dog. Its almost never the dog and always the owner. read more

Hills Bark Park - Dog Parks Near Me - Topeka, Kansas

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My dog and I are new to Topeka so we decided to check out this park as it was the closest to our home. He is having a great time, making lots of friends and loving how much grass there is for him to sniff! read more

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Okay for one, I'm glad their is a dog park here in this town, but be carful heard a lot of bad things about it, we was going to let our huskies out but after hearing so much from the locals we decided not to, this lady said her dog got huge bites from this park so she ran over and told us not to let our babies out here and told us to go to the dog park at the Loves truck stop, so we did. read more

Two stars may be generous. It's a well laid out facility, but I guess my dog and I just don't fit. I do not turn my dog loose in the parking lot. I wait until we are inside the fence before taking off the leash. I don't smoke, so I cannot appreciate the thousands of cigarette butts. I always clean up behind my dog, but I have never been there when I have not seen multiple people watching their dogs drop a deuce and leaving it behind. If I have any trash, I use a trash can, but there are always a dozen or so plastic bottles, food wrappers, and empty plastic bags everywhere. I always stay there with my dog, instead of dropping him off and then leaving the park for a while. In other words, you have to tolerate the irresponsible pigs that bring their dogs and trash what could be a decent facility. But, that seems to be the Topeka way. It's well worth the drive to go to the bark park at Lake Shawnee. The people there appreciate the bark park and tend to treat it with respect. Nicer people, much cleaner place. read more

The bad reviews are from people that have heard stories. You should punch yourselves in the face, this is a great park and doesnt deserve to be slandered by people that havent been there. read more

Reviewing this park because it does not deserve the 1 star referenced in the original (and only other) review. This is a big park with grass/ dirt and 6 foot fences. Large separate park for smaller dogs too. Plenty of benches and seating for owners and even a couple obstacles for agility training. This is not the nicest dog park we've ever seen but it certainly is not the worst. On the day we were here owners and pups were friendly and well behaved (except for some incessant barking). I hope the pup from the original review is all healed up and hopefully the negligent owner has stopped bringing his pup to this park. read more

WARNING! This is Max (I call him Maxine). He is my Great Dane that's about to turn a year old in November. He is super loving and friendly but when I took him to run and play today a dog came up to him and immediately wanted to be dominant. My dog is by no means defensive or aggressive so it shocked me that they didn't like each other so quickly (I'm well aware that it happens sometimes though). A German short hair pointer (male) started showing teeth and growling and so I gave my puppy the command to leave it and we proceeded to the other side of the park. The owner said nothing to his dog which I discarded but then his dog continued to follow us and began getting aggressive again even though Max was running from him with his tail between his legs. I kept trying to move to another area of the park hoping this dog would leave us alone, but the owner still sat there on the other side on his phone smoking a cigarette. At this point I was starting to get frustrated since he didn't want to separate his dog from us. We walked back over closer to the owner in hopes he would notice and try to separate the dogs so they could play with other puppies there. The dog got defensive and started to attack mine and my boyfriend quickly grabbed Max's collar and tried to separate them as the other dog was biting Max. The owner finally came over and kicked his dog and didn't grab his collar or anything. He finally got ahold of his dog but he managed to bite through my dogs ear and leave several puncture wounds and scratches along, around and in his ear and chest. Below I have posted the pictures of the wound but just warn people with other male dogs to be very alert when they see a man and a German short haired pointer (Brown and I believe the dogs name was buddy or something similar) since he walked off without even informing me if his dog was up to date on his shots including rabies. I was left with a $120 vet bill and my puppy now is on antibiotics for his wounds. read more

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I am glad there is a dog park in town, especially one off leash and as large as this one with separate fenced areas for small and large dogs. there are benches and chairs and water fountain as well as bags to pick up after your pup. I just wish that dog owners be responsible and either play with their dog or at least watch them. I was there the other day with my dog and playing fetch with her. Immediately a big dog came over and started sniffing and other other things. I tried to distract my dog and threw her ball. /she really did not care for the other dog and kept playing. I was hoping that the other dog would lose interest. After several minutes he kept coming over again and again. i walked with my dog to the water area so she could get a drink and hoped the other dogs owner would call him. this did not happen. I ended up having to pick up my dog, which luckily I was still able to do, and again, nothing from the dog owner. The big dog jumped me twice trying to get my dog. we left the park and the big dog followed us to the gate and almost out of the gate. Again nothing from the owner. My dog now dislikes going there as she keeps running back to the entry gate. I am not making her go there anymore. I just wish dog owners would be more responsible with their pets. I did give it 2 stars because it conveniently located etc, read more