Friends of Millbrook Dog Park

For those of you who park in the parking lot in front of the swimming pool, and most of our dog park people do, be aware that new stop signs have been installed at the two exits to this parking lot. Please be sure to come to a complete stop before exiting the parking lot.

As the weather gets warmer, more children will be coming to the park for swimming and to play at the basketball courts and on the playgrounds. Let's be very aware of all the pedestrians at the park and slow down when driving into or out of the park. 

The courts at the Millbrook Tennis Center are being resurfaced. Where the courts were previously all green, the new courts are blue within a green background which provides a higher-contrast playing surface. Pretty!

For those of you who walk your dogs in the trails around the tennis courts, be aware that work is in progress and it might be best to keep clear of the large barrels that contain the resurfacing materials.

An estimated 50 people participated in Friends of Millbrook Dog Park's work day on Saturday, May 16th. While the morning began quite warm, the sudden and intense rain shower provided a little cooling and a healthy dose of increased humidity.

Everyone worked very hard spreading mulch and picking up trash. We also removed dead, low-hanging branches from many of the pine trees, trimmed some of the bushes which were a bit out of control, and removed some other low-hanging tree branches where people couldn't easily clean up after their dogs.

One of the recurring problems we've had is there's not been an ample supply of poop bags in the park. As the first step towards fixing this problem, we've installed a new poop bag dispenser. This style of dispenser is likely to be the type we'll be installing within both dog park areas assuming we can raise the money to buy the number of dispensers we'd like to install. We would like to replace the current dispensers at the entrances to the dog park as well as install new dispensers inside the large and small dog park areas.

Volunteers dug out the gate area to the picnic shelter to make entry and exit much easier. They also created a long mound of mulch designed to redirect water runoff away from the  picnic shelter gate, hoping to delay that area from filling up with mulch as long as possible.

The pine trees in the wooded area of the dog park have now grown enough that there's at least seven or eight feet of vertical clearance throughout that section. People can easily walk around up there, so when the heat of the summer gets here, that area should provide some needed shade to those who come to the park in the middle of the day.

Thanks to each of you who attended our work day and volunteered your time to keep our dog park a clean and safe place for both dogs and humans!!!

If you would like to volunteer to help during our general work days, watch the website for work day announcements or you can sign up for our mailing lists where we send out email announcements to let everyone know about upcoming work days or other events.

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The scene you see on the left is an unusual one at Millbrook Dog Park. It's Thursday, May 14th, at 5:29pm. The weather is quite nice.

What you do not see in this picture are dogs or humans. It's an empty park.

It's not often one can come to the dog park in the late afternoon and have it all to yourself, so we thought it worth documenting.

The park didn't stay empty for very long but for a few minutes it was a much different place than normal.