Santa Monica Airport Dog Park

I hadn’t been here in a few years after moving from the area, but after finding myself on the west side with my pups we decided to give it a shot. My youngest dog has never been to a dog park before, but she’s does okay with other dogs after being in doggie day care during the week.
The park was great! There were quite a few dogs in the small dog area and my girls had a blast playing with everyone. Owners seemed conscientious about keeping an eye on their dogs and were friendly. It’s well maintained and there are trash cans, shovels and tennis balls for playing. I would bring some of my own next time. The large dog area is pretty size able, although there were less dogs there than in the small dog area. I would never consider coming to a dog park unless there were separated zones.
Parking is ample in the free lot and the location is perfect on weekends when there is less airport activity. We’ll be back again soon!

Would come back any time. No complaints! Nice dogs, clean park. Not crowded. Loved it!

Sizable park, lots of room to run and play. Lots of tennis balls and lots of places to sit.

This is a really good doggie park. Took pookie here today after the dismal experience at barrington dog park. It’s super clean with wood chips nice size small and big dog areas. What stuck out most were the people soooo friendly welcoming and their dogs were very friendly with pookie. Very social and nice and super close too my house totally coming again soon. 2 thumbs up!!!

It’s a nice park but the people there are horrid! Stuck up snobs with nothing better to do than yell at you and your dogs for doing nothing wrong! Horrible experience with gray haired women yelling at you for having your dog too close to theirs.

We were super excited by the great reviews on this place so my husband took our little Yorkie here for some play time on a nice Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately we had a horrible experience!
After less than 10 minutes of play time, cops showed up and started checked the tags on all the dogs for Santa Monica tags. The dogs, not knowing what was going on, excitedly approached the officers to greet them and allowed them to check their tags. Simultaneously, more cops were ticketing cars that didn’t have certain stickers. Keep in mind that we saw absolutely NO warning signs whatsoever about dogs needing Santa Monica tags, or cars needing special stickers on them. If there had been appropriate signage indicating these rules, we probably would have thought twice about going here. Luckily for us, the officers had targeted the big dog section of the park first, so we were able to leave without our poor little pooch being issued a ticket for not having Santa Monica tags! Luckily our car did not get ticketed either.
This was such an absurd experience that I felt compelled to warn others of these rules since they are NOT posted and you would otherwise not know them. Be warned that if you do not have the Santa Monica dog tag AND the parking sticker, you can get fined when the cops raid this park. It’s really a shame since it is an otherwise nice dog park. How sad that such lame rules get in the way of what should be an enjoyable experience.

I can’t say enough about how wonderful the maintenance staff is — Reggie, in particular, is loved and appreciated by everyone from morning crowd — he is efficient, reliable and kind. The city of Santa Monica, the dog owners and the dogs themselves are lucky to depend on Reggie.
This park is well looked after and monitored so that dog walkers with more than 3 dogs don’t last long before they get cited and ticketed by the City of SM — among other things, this translates into less un-​picked-​up poop.
This is a great park and my dog gets exercise there every morning — I don’t know what I would have done without it.

This is one of my favorite Dog Parks. There is one area for up to 25 lb dogs which is where my pooches go. Then there is the BIG DOG area (: It is well kept. Make sure that you have a Santa Monica Dog Permit or you will be fined! I believe they cost about $ 20 per dog for a year.

Santa Monica Dog Park is a primo place for pooches to run around and play. Clean and safe, this dog park seems to have a friendly group of regulars with well behaved dogs. The vibe is friendly and playful. Definitely returning with my dog, she had a great time!

This is a great dog park!!! Multi level area for dogs, big and little dog sides, less dog walkers and more playful dogs! It is well taken care of. There is also a regular park attached to it. It is usually pretty breezy and cool from the sea air so on hot days some times it is a little cooler here than other dog parks. The only thing bad is that it is right next to the airport and sometimes the jet engines can be really load but its not to often.