Cedar Bark Park — Attraction in Cedar Park

Bark Park is the #1 bestest in Austin area if ya got pooches. It's 1 part of Cedar Park Veteran's Memorial Park. The over all park has public pool, public restrooms, picnic areas, kiddie play area and hike / bike trails. So you can make a day for whole family and include doggo time too. (I think only pool charges entrance fee out of entire park?)

Bark Park is free and divided into 3 sections. 1) Small sized dogs only; 2) Every size Dry Play area; and 2) Every size with pond to swim in. If you take small sized dog into Every Sized areas, there are all way up to XXL sized dogs running, wrestling and playing. So even if it doesn't get hurt on purpose, it can just get accidentally stepped on. Also, keep in mind some big dogs have high, small prey drives. It's genetics. So not something they can help if your tiny dog looks like new play toy. Why little dog only section!

Before you say "I don't want my dog getting nasty and getting in car!" They have several wash stations (some have stands) at the entrance. I will let mine swim, we wash and then we walk around rest of park to dry before piling in car.

There are many, many on hand poop pickup and trash stations. Plz be a decent human being and pick up your dogs poops. If you leave it for others, your dog has no choice, but you as (the higher life form) have no real excuse! (They even have poop shovels if you can't bend over)

Also, thing I REALLY like about Bark Park is that the over all park is a big people draw for the City of Cedar Park. CP Police are usually patrolling if not sitting in parking lot. So you don't have to worry about crazies ruining your day. They also will come and cite people for wild acting dogs. So if your one of those people that makes your crazy dogs everyone else's problem while you act like it's not bothering everyone? You can get ticketed by CPPD. Thank you City of Cedar Park for safe, sanity space for me and my dogs!

The entire park is ADA Compliant, so there are handicap parking, sidewalk ramps and big enough gates for wheelchairs or scooters AND room to handle your dogs too. Every time I've gone the people there have been very friendly and will help you with gate control if you have any trouble.

As far as location? Cedar Park is basically a suburb in North Austin / Travis County. But it's just couple miles off 183 tollway. So you can easy reach via every major tollway or roadway in ATX area most likely within 30-40 min.

Even if you don't have a dog but like them? Most people and the dogs are friendly. So maybe come play with suragate pooch until you can get your own or help you find breed...

Socialization is an incredibly important thing for a dog to engage in and Cedar Bark Park does an incredible job at making that as easy as possible. From the moment you pull into the park you can tell a lot of care went into its design. There is ample parking and a lot of dogs there so your dog will surely meet a new friend. Also, there was a mobile dog groomer there taking anyone who was interested in their services.There’s no fee to enter and there are three main areas: small dog, big dog, and an open area with a water fountain that creates a mini lake. Since our dog is smaller we opted to go into the small dog area first. The small dog area is very nice with benches, trees, and little activities strewn throughout. There’s a drinking area for your dog as well in case it starts to get tired. We spent about 5 minutes there before deciding to go into the bigger area with the fountain as that’s where all the other dogs were.

When we entered the large open area the first thing we noticed was how secure everything is. Whoever made this area was very aware of dog safety and at no point were we uncomfortable with ours in there. The dogs here were well behaved and extremely friendly. Many of the owners were socializing together as their dogs ran around and chased one another. The fountain provided many dogs with refreshment on what was a very hot Saturday morning and I’m sure that’s why this place is so popular. It really is a beautiful park and it feels great to see your dog having so much fun, we highly recommend it to anyone in the area who wants to do a dog...

This is my favorite place to go close to Austin, not only for my dog but for my kids to have a couple of hours of relaxing fun for free. There are two sections one for small dogs and one for larger dogs. The small dogs have a very charming area, complete with benches for the people to sit, and don't be shy, Introduce yourself and your dog, you just might meet an interesting person or two. The dogs never have any hesitation meeting each other. If you come prepared for giving your dog a bath, this is also the perfect place on a nice warm day. After your dog has rolled around and played, dunked in the beautiful sparkling reservoir, there is a bath for the large dogs and another bath for the smalls. If you have not been here recently, they have really improved the doggy bath area. Now it has a wonderful stand area for each of the sizes of dogs. So bring some dog shampoo, fluffy dog towel, and wash away. I gave it four stars of instead of five, for two reasons, number one it is a drive out here, wish it was closer. Can't change that. The other reason is sometimes there are not enough dogs here, it's always more fun with lots of dogs. That is one reason I'm doing this encouraging review, take your time, drive out here, bring your dogs, and bring your beautiful...