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Overview: Portage Lakes Dog Park is rated 4.4/5 from 152 Google reviews. Reviews most often describe it as spacious with room for dogs to run. Amenities: Reviewers often mention shade and tree cover.
Overview: Portage Lakes Dog Park is rated 4.4/5 from 152 Google reviews. Reviews most often describe it as spacious with room for dogs to run. Amenities: Reviewers often mention shade and tree cover.
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Nice little park for dogs. Plenty of shade, a picnic table, bench, & best of all is the dock. My doggo absolutely loves to go swimming here retrieving his toys out of the water. I almost always see deer, that's a nice little bonus.
It’s a little small but well shaded. All dog sizes in one area. Dogs can swim from shore or the dock. However the fence only extends about 8’ into the lake and is escapable if they swim around the fence. Dog owners are very poor a picking up the poop even with a few poop-bag stations in the park.
We drove a little out of way recently while travelling to southern Ohio to stop here to check out this park with our two dogs. Both dogs are not big water dogs, but the open water and diving dock was a big plus for this location and is definitely a unique feature that we do not have at our local parks. There is some erosion in a few spots due to natural rainwater erosion, so make sure to watch your step, and IF you happen to have a dog with a tendency to stray, this might not be the BEST park since it IS open to water, but use your best judgement on your dog's preferences.
Make sure your dog has good recall, even through prey drive! There are holes in the fence in the water. My dog will find the hole if it exists, and we did not find one outside of the lake opening. Water is a natural lake with geese, ducks, algae (minimal), and plants. It's murky. At first it feels small but once your pup starts running you'll realize there's tons of room, the lake opening just isn't large. I didn't take photos of all the room behind us. We had a great experience today. Very peaceful spot. We were mainly by ourselves but the few we did interact with were very nice. There are bathrooms if you go to the regular people beach there are two outhouses without running water, bring sanitizer. There is also a mcd close to the park entrance. We went here while they are doing work on bow wow beach in Stow. I think I would go to BWB beach over here, although we will definitely be back!!
Love this place. Zeus loves it too. Peaceful area to take your dog 🐶 to.
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