Dog Parks at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park — Attraction in Tampa

I've been coming to this small dog park for a few years now with my little 15lb dog, and today is the first time that I have had an issue. There was a Pitbull that was clearly over 25lbs and it started getting aggressive with mine. I explained to the owners that my dog is scared of big dogs and asked them politely if they would please move their dog to the big dog park on the other side and they told me no because they were there first. I told them that their dog was to big to be over here and they told me that their dog also was afraid of big dogs. Anyway, the moral of the story is, ya'll should have regulations clearly posted about what constitutes as a small dog. According to many of the articles that I have read today, it's 20lbs. I'm just trying to ensure the safety of all the small dogs that go there, including my own. I called authorities in regards to this situation, but nothing was done about it. I mean somebody did show up, but those people were not asked to transfer, they were allowed to stay on the small side. I did however take mine to the big dog park and it all worked out okay over there. Eventually he got along great with all of the dogs over there. My opinion is that they knew their dog is aggressive and that is why they didn't take theirs to the big dog park. It's easier for them to just let him pick on the littler ones I guess. Boo to the park...

This park looks beautiful, but was a huge disappointment... You can tell it was probably designed by an architect who didn't actually think of a dog. The fake turf gets extremely hot and burned my dog's paws so he couldn't run on it, back in May. And the fencing that they put up, the lowest horizontal bar is not low enough to prevent tennis balls from rolling thru and outside of the park. The water features are interesting, but again I'm sure the water coming out is searing hot and the concrete is probably extremely hot as well. What this place needs is a few dozen of those sun sail shades... And point the thing towards the water so people get views of the water! There's a beautiful river like 15 ft away and you can barely see it with all the landscaping in the way. Just very bad design and disappointing all the way around, And I'm sure it cost us taxpayers a loooooot of money. Will not...

Very nice park on the Hillsborough River. Not a whole lot of parking but I guess enough they have a small dog park. That's very nice. All synthetic turf so your dog doesn't get a bunch of dirt on it. End up being a dirty dog. Didn't see any kind of dog washing station. That'd be kind of nice to have cuz then you can clean your dog even though he didn't get dirty cuz he's probably dirty when he already showed up. But other than that basketball courts, you know the pretty typical playground area. It's all on the river. Great views of downtown Tampa. Lots of room to run around and spread out. I mean if you're in the area you need to go to a park. I would say this is a decent park or the worth your time to come check out. Maybe not the best part of town on one side, but then the other side's pretty schnootsy so pretty sure you'll be okay. I mean it's nice I'd go there. Oh wait, I already went...