Recently in downtown long beach dog park Category

K-9 corner, the fourth off-leash dog park in Long Beach, opened on Sunday at Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue.

(And that's not all -- two more dog parks are in the works in the Wrigley District at Golden Avenue and Wardlow Road and Scheer Park in North Long Beach, according to the city's parks and recreation department.)

K-9 Corner boasts solar power and cost the city $300,000 to develop.

Photo: Stephen Carr, Long Beach Press-Telegram 

Justin Rudd of Long Beach reminds us that Long Beach will see the grand openings of two new dog parks in the next couple weeks:

Long Beach's 3rd dog park to open this weekend at Lincoln Park downtown by the library @ Broadway. (No other details available yet) ...  The 4th off-leash park "K-9 Corner" will have its Grand Opening at noon on Sunday, Sept. 27. Recreation Dog Park and the Dog Beach are the other two parks for dogs.

The ceremony for the K-9 Corner at 906 Pacific Ave. in downtown Long Beach will take place from noon to 3 p.m. Sept. 27. Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthall will be on hand along with several Long Beach city officials. The park features solar power lighting and drought tolerant landscaping.

The event also features free food, drinks, pet adoptions, information booths and children's activities.

It looks tiny, but nice:

Thanks to Justin Rudd in Long Beach for alerting us to the news that Long Beach's new downtown dog park is set to open in just about three weeks.

It will be a good addition to serve residents living in the downtown lofts. The park is at 186 W. Broadway (at Pacific Avenue) in Lincoln Park:

You can also check the park on this Google map.

I thought we'd posted about the park plans just about a year ago, but that apparently is a different, smaller park that is still under construction at Pacific & 9th.

If you live nearby and plan to use the park at Broadway & Pacific, you can volunteer to serve on the dog park advisory board by calling 562-570-6684.

When these two downtown area parks open, Long Beach will be the home to four off-leash facilities. That's no doubt part of the reason Dog Fancy Magazine has named LB as one of the nation's most dog-friendly cities.

The other facilities: Inside Recreation Park, (2 acres) at 5201 E. 7th St.; and the popular Dog Zone Beach (3 acres) at 1 South Granada Ave.         

Way to go, Long Beach.  

(Right, dog owners and their canines socialize in the shade at the dog park at Recreation Park in Long Beach.)  

  Our municipal neighbor to the east, Long Beach, is set to get another off-leash dog park, writes Robert Garcia on LBPost.com.

A groundbreaking is coming soon and construction (which will take about a year) is set to begin later this summer on the westside's "Downtown Dog Park," an idea first proposed by the North Pine Neighborhood Alliance. The park will be built at the corner of Pacific and Ninth. With the many new lofts that have gone up in the district, the park should get good use.

Long Beach already has a fairly spaceous off-leash facility within Recreation Park on Seventh Street on the east side of town. The Long Beach Dog Park opened in the mid-1990s. Some years later, a designated dog beach was approved near Belmont Shore.

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