Recreation Dog Park — Attraction in Long Beach

My 7 month old mix lab/Shep pup was timid the first few times we brought him. After about a month he's gained some confidence and now ducks under benches/table when he senses trouble, ha,ha, still trying to figure out how to play given he's a rescue. Last week around 2:45 ish 2 pitbulls attacked a young black Irish setter type dog. Horrible to witness. Owner was upset and left soon after when dogs calmed down. Park wasn't busy and numbers started to dwindle after the attack. Not sure their departure was related to pitbull attack.. I decided to take my dog to the far end of the park so he could run and fetch with no other dogs around. The 2 pitbulls, along with their owners, walked all the way to where we were. After a few minutes they attacked my pup! Was horrified, no bench or place to hide. The female owner apologized and her male partner/co-owner didn't even apologize, didnt offer to pay vet bill and probably thought my puppy attacked his full grown pitbulls, yeah, right! We really liked this park, nice with mostly responsible owners and is pretty clean for a dog park. We hesitate now to go back. When we were walking out a tall guy, I'm short, walked over to us with empathy he told me the week before his dog, a year old lab?? was attacked and needed a massive amount of stitches. I was somewhat comforted? I don't normally post comments but am still reeling from...

Warning to the public!!!!! This park is very dangerous. I brought my dog to this park for the first time and I saw a lot of dogs in the same area, Big and Small. The dogs are all having fun in the large part of the dog park, big and small co-mingling with no problem. A couple came in with a Pitt Bull on a leash, white with spots. They were just walking their dog on a leash, I decided that it was time for yorkies to leave the park and on our way to the exit gate, I heard my dog yip so loud and when I turned around. I saw the Pitt Bull mauling by dogs. I was shocked that the owners released their dog's leash and were far away from their Pitt Bull. My dogs had multiple lacerations. One of the owner's came to me and told me that it was my fault for taking them in the big area, but I saw small dogs in the big area. She gave $400 dollars for the Pitt Bull's trouble on my dogs and walked away knowing that the cost was more than $400 for two dogs that they were...

Good place to take a dog. This dog park has a pretty big size contained area for the dogs to run free. There are a lot of other people with their dogs here as well. Plenty of benches to sit and relax while you dog makes friends and plays. Has a few trees that are fallen over so dogs can climb. Has a few barrel tunnels for dogs to go through and tree stumps. Only one rainbow shaped metal climbing obstacle that is not difficult for any dog to do. Has two water bowls for dogs to hydrate from all the running, one on each end. Over all a good place, just wish it had more obstacles. There are 2 areas. One for small dogs and one for all other. Some people don't want their small pets to get hurt so they use the small one. Although I did see a few small dogs playing with big dogs in the larger area. Why do we have to segregate them for their size? Just...