Location: 600 East Meadow at Middlefield Road.

Location: 1098 Amarillo Avenue at West Bayshore Road.

Location: 2901 Cowper Street at Colorado and Loma Verde.

2-sided (big and small) shade shelters. Great place ! Safe and friendly. Dog owners are very good about reinforcing good behavior and ejecting bad owners and their dogs. Location: Northeast corner of Shoreline Blvd. and North Road (east of Shoreline Park entry gate. Directions: 101 to Shoreline North, go to end off Shoreline, turn right, then left into dog park.

Location: Corner of North Road and Shoreline.

Russet and Danforth Drives.

Almost one thousand acres. Interstate 880, to (West) Decoto Rd. (Highway 84), North on Paseo Padre Parkway to (left) Patterson Ranch Road, to the entrance. 510-635-0135.

16 acres in the middle of a preserve. Accessible via the Blue Oak Trail or the Cordilleras Trail. Dogs must be kept on-leash to and from the off-leash area. Directions: Off Crestview Drive and Edmonds Road near San Carlos.

1.5 acre park at the 2700 block of Melendy Dr, West side of Heather School. Portofino and Melendy Drives. 650-593-8011.

Shore Dogs dog park is a fully fenced park with both an area for large dogs and one for small dogs. The park is part grass, part DG. Water bowls are available along with poop cans, scoops and plastic bags. There is plenty of parking. The park is open from dawn until dusk. Fenced, off-leash dog exercise park. Location: Radio Road. Directions: From San Francisco International Airport, take 101 South and exit at Holly Street/Redwood Shores Pkwy. Stay to the left in the fork and circle around up over the freeway. Stay on Redwood Shores Parkway for about 2.4 miles to Radio Road. Turn right on Radio Road to the stop sign and turn right again, (entrance to the dog run is a short distance from the stop sign on your right).

3450 Brookdale Drive, next to the Curtis Elementary School. Directions: From Lawrence Expressway, turn on Lochinvar heading east. Take a left on Bing, right on Brookdale. It will be on your right. (408) 615-2260 Hours: M-F 7 a.m. to sunset. Saturday, Sunday and holidays 9 a.m., closed one-half hour after sunset.

Boothbay Avenue and Edgewater Lane

Two large fully landscaped and fenced in enclosures for both big and small dogs. Shade areas and benches on both sides. A nice setting in an urban surrounding. Port-o-potty restroom, poop bags for doggy cleanup, water fountains and bowls, plenty of parking. Location: Lafayette and Reed. Directions: 101 exit De La Cruz to El Camino make right at Lafayette. Turn right at read and turn immediate right into parking lot.

Off Leash Dog Park. Location: End of Graves Ave behind Orchard Supply Hardware. Directions: Off Saratoga Avenue across from Westgate Shopping Center.

Small Park with fencing. Good park. There are separate areas for big dogs and little dogs, poop bags, water, picnic tables and some agility toys. Location: Foster City Blvd. Directions: From S.F. take 101 South to the Hillsdale exit. Go east on Hillsdale Blvd. until Foster City Blvd. then turn right. Park is on the right at the corner of Foster City Blvd. and Bounty.

600 Foster City Blvd. 650-345-5731.

12.4 mile trail. Leashes required in some posted area only. 510-635-0135.

Off Stevenson Blvd at Lake Elizabeth, near softball camp side if the lake. Fun leash off, fenced in park for good mannered dogs only. At 6-8 pm you can see over 30 dogs running their tails off. Clean up after your dog bags available. Please also bring more to contribute. From north take 880 South, Stevenson Blvd Exit. Left onto Stevenson. Drive 2 miles. Pass Paseo Padre. Make right at Softball Camp into parking lot. Drive to back of parking lot. From Pleasanton/ San Ramon, take 680 South, Take Washington Blvd Exit. Becomes Fremont Blvd. Drive 1-1/2 miles to Stevenson. Go right. Then follow above directions.

2,600 acre park. Interstate 680, South on Mission Blvd (Warm Springs District), East on Mission, right on Stanford Avenue to the entrance.

Memorial Park put up for a Loved Dog. Complete with agility run, small & large dog areas. Location: Mission Blvd at Appian Way. Directions: 880 Decoto Exit towards the hills, Right on Mission Blvd, corner of Mission Blvd and Appian Way.

5pm to 8pm. Fenced, benches, handicap access, poopbag dispenser, trees, water, restrooms, trashcans, shelter. Located on Wabash and West San Carlos.

Location: off 3rd Avenue in San Mateo. Directions: from 101 north or south bound take East 3rd Avenue and follow it out until you see Shoreline Park area.