Dog parks in Acton

 Prospect Park

Main Street North and Knox Street View map »
Turn west onto Knox St., the parking lot is straight ahead. Knox St. is a tiny street and can be a bit hard to find: it's the first street to the west, north of Mill Street by the church.

The park is behind the tennis courts. If you've been to the park in Georgetown you will notice that it is maintained by the same group/organization: the fences, the gates and the bulletin board all look the same and they are all in the same good condition as in Georgetown (I belive the Acton park was established first by the way).

There are no extras though to make the place interesting rather than simply being a plain fenced in area. A few shuberries, a flowerbed outside the gates, containers for plastic bags (instead of a big "bag of bags"), a few more benches, waterbowls, etc, would have made the park more appealing to me. And just because I was a stranger in town and in the park there was no need to ask me if my obviously shy golden retriever is OK around small and growling dogs especially after she was greeted by a suspiciously barking rottweiler and a german shepperd.

There is enough parking for everyone but, as the parks's website asks visitors, please don't park where it says "no parking".

Thumbs up for the park maintenance staff for the park itself but I felt more confortable outside by the lake thanks to the people in the park. Open from 7am to 11pm.