Bark Park — Attraction in Alamogordo

A friend of ours was in town for the holidays. We decided to bring her and her dog to bark park to play for a bit. We had never been to this park, but had heard good things from some of our friends. We arrived and found plenty of parking (albeit with some rather deep potholes scattered about). Our friend got a head start as we were getting our baby girl out of the car seat. Unfortunate, we had no sooner removed the baby, when there was an incident. Within 3 minutes of entering the park, our friend noticed that another guest was being negligent and allowing her seemingly rabid and hostile dog to race around the park unsupervised, attacking the other dogs who were trying to enjoy the park. My friend's dog was attacked within minutes and is now missing a piece of her ear. As we were tending to her bleeding face, the owner of the vicious dog seemed unaffected and unconcerned that her dog had ripped my friends dog apart and was currently continuing to harass the other dogs in the park. Not really sure what can be done, as it seems like a "play at your own risk" scenario. It was an unfortunate and deeply regrettable first (and last) visit to this park. While I hope that our visit was a fluke experience, I thought it worth sharing so that future visitors might better prepared for the sorts of animals who attend this park; both...

Great dog park with a big and a little area for diff sized dogs. There are agility courses in cin each one to entertain your dog and tire them out. Nice local and traveling folks with their dogs. Very close to the KOA Campground we are staying at too. Very convenient. Also a great view of the Mountains and be sure to check out the popular Lady in the Mountains outline to the south of the dog park up in the mtn range. Plenty of parking and nice grass too. Water fountains but we prefer to drink and bring our own bowl and a jug of the local water store water from HIGH DESERT WATER on Indian Springs up by the Walmart Express food mart. Check out their ice too....its made with their filtered water and the ice is so clear and clean...tastes so good...

This park usually always has someone there with their dog. There's tons of people with their dogs on week nights and even more on the weekends. Pet owners were seemingly responsible.

There isn't a separate area for small dogs. There is a gate for separation at the far end but it typically isn't closed unless there was a dog fight earlier. BUT feel free to close it upon arrival of you'd like some privacy. The park seems to have many small cliques but everyone is friendly enough.

Bags, garbages, and hand sanitizer are provided...