Renaissance Park — Attraction in Atlanta

I’m giving this four stars for its potential. When I got there there (11:30am on Sunday) there was not a dog in a sight, only three men without dogs eating (I think they were eating) while sitting on a stone wall within the large dog park. I asked them as I approached if they minded a dog in there. One answered, “no ma’am”. The other said, “no this is her park (referring to my dog), we’ll go”. And they all picked up their stuff and left while we waited outside the gate to enter. The park is actually quite nice. It’s mostly grass which means minimal mud and shaded with beautiful trees. I was disappointed that the water was shut off I’m assuming for the winter. I was there for an hour and never saw anyone else, or dog, except for another man who sat on the ground outside the gate to do what looked like paperwork. He quietly left when my dog approached the fence. There was a poop bag station but no bags. However, I was very happy that someone zip tied a container of tennis balls to the pole. Overall it was a pleasant-enough experience that I’ll return- definitely during daylight hours in hopes that there may be more dogs for mine to play with. Let’s populate this park with our dogs! I hope this review shows that although I 100% understand the concerns expressed in other reviews about homeless people, that isn’t always reason enough to not visit places in...

Used to live next door a few years ago and this park (specifically dog park) was in pretty good condition and was one of the better quiet and quaint dog parks in Atlanta with a very close knit regulars. In just a year or two this park is absolutely atrocious and I am saddened by what the city has allowed to happen here. Littered with trash, Drug needles, human feces and drug “baggies” it’s an absolute dump. No one appears to come here anymore and wired fences block the sitting areas because the city thinks that is a solution to the homeless taking over the park. So disgraceful. If the city actually cared for the park, kept it clean, changed the garbage, mowed the grass and increased patrols a few times a day this would have never happened. Now they have abandoned the park and no one is going to visit here again except the indigent people who live around the park and destroy it. ...

I walk by Renaissance Park 2x a day going to/from work.There are NO attractions at this park. There is a gated, fenced in area for dogs. No playground, ferris wheel, etc. Whoever noted a ferris wheel on a prior review must have meant to leave it for Centennial Park.

This park is FILTHY and is overrun by homeless people who have camped out here for the past 10+ months that I've been walking by. Even at 0630 it is an iffy place to walk by/through. My neighbors head in the opposite direction to Central Park with their dogs.

There are frequent fights at Renaissance Park. The last one I witnessed, a "gentleman" took a large chunk of concrete at another man's head. Thankfully he missed or I'm quite certain I would have been witness to yet another...