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Dog Park Review: Haulover Dog Beach and Bark Park

The Best Dog Park in South Florida

One of the joys of moving to Miami Beach has been the opportunity to spend more time outside, particularly with Bodhi. A few weeks ago, we visited what I think is the ultimate dog park! It’s located in the 99-acre, one-and-a-half-mile-long Haulover Park on Collins Avenue just north of Bal Harbor. Haulover Park actually has two dedicated dog areas: a huge dog run, called the Bark Park, and an adjacent dog-friendly stretch of beach. Both areas are in the southern part of the park. The Bark Park is great, but the star of the show is the beautiful dog-friendly beach!

Haulover Dog Beach
Haulover Dog Beach

The Bark Park is open from 8 AM to sunset, seven days a week. It features an enclosure for small dogs (less than 35 pounds) and one for large dogs. There are plenty of shade trees, picnic tables, and drinking fountains for both dogs and their companions. You’ll also find handy poop bag dispensers and garbage cans. I was really surprised to see just how big the Bark Park is! There is plenty of room for dogs of all sizes to run around to their hearts’ content.

Haulover Dog Beach
Bark Park

The entrance to the Bark Park is through Parking Lot 3, located on the west side of Collins Avenue if you are traveling southbound, or through Parking Lot 4, on the east side of Collins if you are traveling northbound. There is a two dollar user fee per vehicle; you must enter the park with your dog in the vehicle. They take cash only. The dog friendly portion of the beach is located at Lifeguard Tower 3 through the dunes just east of the Bark Park. The dog beach now has new hours! It is open from 8 AM to 3 PM every day of the week. The dog-friendly area has a station where you can rise salt water and sand off your pooch.

Haulover Dog Beach
Haulover Dog Beach

Technically, dogs must be kept on-leash unless they are in the water. Practically speaking, everyone who has a dog that is easily controlled lets their dogs run off-leash.

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Haulover Dog Beach

 

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Haulover Dog Beach

 

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Haulover Dog Beach

Here’s some slow-mo video of Bodhi in the surf.

 

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Haulover Dog Beach

 

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Haulover Dog Beach

 

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Haulover Dog Beach

 

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Haulover Dog Beach

 

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Sean Sheer

Sean is a passionate dog lover and the proud owner of Urban Dog’s Official Spokes-Dog, Bodhi the Weimaraner. His family has always owned dogs, but Bodhi is the first he's been fully responsible for since puppyhood… and he couldn't be more doting. As a longtime New Yorker of more than 20 years, Sean knows what a dog's and dog owner's lifestyle is like in NYC. Besides being a doggy dad and top dog at Urban Dog, Sean also has a "real job" experience as co-owner of a Palm Beach, Florida-based private investigative firm, and as a licensed (pet friendly) Real Estate Salesperson with Douglas Elliman in NYC. Sean also exercised his creativity and business sense as an award-winning journalist, producer, TV marketing exec, and private investigator. When not blogging, working, or playing with Bodhi, he is an avid adventure traveler who has circumnavigated the world, bird-watched on all seven continents, safari-ed in Africa, and SCUBA-dived in exotic waters.

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