Hondo Dog Park

Excellent dog park! This place was ginormous. Three separate areas, one for all dogs, little dogs and an agility course. They had a really nice gravel trail that looped around the area for all dogs and there were at least 10 poop bag stations through out the park. There was a water station and a porta potty. We stopped here twice it was so nice!

This is like Disneyland for your dog. So clean, thoughtfully laid out, thoroughly maintained & the atmosphere just wonderful. The included photos and videos speak for themselves. Viewing them should answer most questions about this Dog Park. Parking was not an issue for on this early Monday morning. But with only 25-ish parking spots I would imagine this lot would be full on a sunny weekend. There are signs directing people to overflow parking when the circumstances call for it.

This is a pretty nice dog park. We’ve gotten relatively lucky and haven’t had many interactions with dogs that shouldn’t be in this kind of environment, however(!!), it’s just a regular dog park. I don’t think people watch or clean up after their pets like they should, but the park itself is pretty nice. There are adequate benches in the grassy area, but the winter area could use a few more. The gravel in the winter area is kind of deep around the left side of the park, and the standing water can smell horrific, but, like I said, it’s a dog park. It’s well maintained and everything seems to be decently take care of. I have two dogs (a pit and a super mutt mix) and they both love the park. Either side. We have not been in the small dog yard ever though.

I would consider Hondo to be the intermediate choice for dog parks in the Orenco Station area - I consider PCC Rock Creek to be the best choice. The area is fairly well used, so it's likely your dog will at least have one other dog to play with there at any given time. Parking is somewhat limited, but there is overflow parking across the street at the stadium at Gate A. There's also the #47 Trimet bus and the free Hillsboro Link that have stops close by. The items that prevent me from viewing Hondo more favorably are: 1) The substantial gap between the small and large dog fence bothers me (I did report this to the city - and I'd encourage others to do so too) 2) Some owners on the small and large side are completely aloof/disinterested in watching their dogs, which is extremely irresponsible of them & potentially a liability if their dog hurts another badly enough. I've had 2 incidents in the small dog side where I've had to remove an attacking dog from my puppy & the owner has done nothing to help. I do know how to remove an attacking dog & am not afraid of doing so, but if you're not used to doing that, you'll be in trouble trying to get your dog away from an attacking one. 3) Some owners bring dogs completely unsuited for or are not allowed in a dog park - like a female dog in heat (that happened once to my knowledge so far), aggressive dogs, or visibly sick dogs. 4) The large dog area frequently has dogs that are aggressive and get into "semi-serious" fights with other dogs - meaning if they weren't broken up, there would've been injury to the dogs involved. I tried taking my puppy into the large dog area twice so far when it's less used & alas, on both occasions she's been bitten too hard by Huskies that don't have enough bite inhibition, so we have to stick to the small dog side. I would not recommend going to the large dog side unless your dog is at least 50 lbs and in good health (like not elderly or disabled) to be able to defend themselves from the larger dogs. If it matters to you, the majority of the large dogs are Huskies, German Shepherds, and American Staffordshire Terriers (aka "Pit Bulls").

Great dog park for your furry friends! they have two areas, one for smaller dogs, and one for bigger dogs. the only thing i didn’t like about it was the area for the bigger dogs was all gravel, it ended up hurting my pups paws because of the heat. BUT, they do have a very nice large grass area for all pups with some gravel walkways! so that’s where we ended up spending most of our time!