Green Street Dog Park - Membership Required — Attraction in Philadelphia

A bunch of pretentious *@%# people go here. I arrived to the dog park unaware of it entry rules. I am a visitor to the "city of brotherly love" driving up north from Florida. The green street area is far from brotherly love BUT THE OPPOSITE. when I arrived at the gate a lady quickly closed behind me. I noticed a key fob system setup to allow you into the green street dog park. Never NEVER!, have I seen such a thing. I have traveled to many dog park and my dog is with me every day every hour. I haven't reported on all the dog parks that I've been to. But this place has to be the worst. The people in the dog park look at you and don't say a thing. The thoughts that have gone through their mind, as I heard one woman comment to the woman that just entered before I arrived told her, "you did the right thing". As I pondered what my next step. I walked around the block. Read up on the web site and and couldn't find anything about this dog park being entirely funded by membership fee. Yes there is a membership fee. If I lived in Philly I would get the lawyers involved, civil right advocates. Red lining protest. ....so if anyone who reads this in philly. Get your collaboration together. I don't believe that this is altogether a privately owned piece of land. And certainly some government money went into this dog park. And their website doesn't support that it is entirely funded by...

More about the members than the park itself. I walked past today excited to take my small boston, and there was just one middle aged lady with her large dog. I thought she wouldn't mind us going to the other side off the empty park and she promptly closed the door behind her and pretended she didn't see us.

I would totally understand if there were other people, if it was somehow unsafe or if she could treat me like a human and explain it's dues paying.

I would pay, but I just moved one street over and literally have never seen anything like this in any city I've lived in, but not interested with...

Great community dog park and everyone there is very friendly and great about cleaning up after their dogs. It’s my dog’s favorite place next to her doggie daycare. You have to apply for a membership but it’s nice to know everyone there is a responsible dog owner (everyone is watching their dogs and if play gets rough, it’s broken up very quickly). The membership fee already paid for itself in the first month of us...