Jehu Pond conversation area. 1.7 miles of wide, easily walked trails. Mixed woodlands (pitch pine and oak) along salt marsh and Jehu Pond within the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge. Very lightly used. Almost everyone will have a nice dog off leash. Search the web for ‘Jehu Pond’ – you will find lots of interesting information about this area. Location: Great Oak Road or Red Brook Road. Directions: Rt 28 or Rt 151 to Great Oak Road (from Mashpee Rotary). Approx 1 mile past Red Brook Road. Parking area on left.

Wide, flat trails along Quashnet River in Mashpee (Cape Cod) Mass. A real hidden gem. Very wide, flat trails along the Quashnet River in Mashpee. Lots of little trails to the side. Round trip from Martin Street to Mashpee High School is a nice one hour walk. Great off leash walk. No roads. Everyone you see will have a off leash dog. Terrific year round. Location: Martin St, Mashpee, Ma. Directions: Rt 28 (from Falmouth or Mashee) to Martin Street.

Nature Center. Founded in 1978 and situated with its headquarters overlooking Dartmouth’s Slocum River, one of southeastern New England’s most spectacular estuaries, the Lloyd Center for the Environment has achieved a well earned reputation for excellence in environmental research and education. Through its innovative outreach programs, it has established itself as a highly regarded leader in the ongoing effort to raise awareness of the area’s fragile coastal resources and the importance of protecting them. With extraordinary water views and five miles of trails (on which under-control dogs are most welcome!) through unspoiled forest and salt-marshes to be discovered at its coastal nature preserve, the Lloyd Center offers a variety of recreational and educational opportunities for families, birders, school-children, hikers, scientists and nature enthusiasts of all ages. Location: 430 Potomska Road. Directions: From Route I-195, take Exit 12 or 12A (one exit west of intersection with Route 140). Turn right at end of Exit ramp and go through three sets of lights to Route 6. Cross Route 6 and, after a half mile, bear left onto Chase Road. Go 3.5 miles to its end (STOP-sign) and turn right onto Russells Mills Road. Go nearly a mile and turn left, just before Davoll’s General Store, onto Rock O’ Dundee Road. Go nearly a mile and turn right onto Potomska Road. The entrance to the Center, at No. 430, is about 1.7 miles down on the right.

Friendly dogs of all sizes welcomed in the open field behind the main horse arena. Not fenced but no traffic worries. Weekends 10-noon and early afternoons are the busiest times. While waiting for others to arrive, take your dog(s) for a walk in the many miles of safe open space/conservation land abutting the dog park – excellent wide trails through the woods, alongside ponds, around cranberry bogs. Beautiful! Come join us any time. Easy to find: I-195, (Marion) Exit 20 to Marion center, less than a quarter mile from I-195.

Informally known as South Road Town Park. Big open field abutted by construction site where balance of field is being developed. Parking on side of road. Location: South Road. Directions: Exit 31b, 1st left on Hartwell, 2nd Rt. on Maguire, which becomes South Road. 1 mile after right on Maguire – big open field on Rt., after new street Liberty road, Lots of dogs off leash.

Dog park in Newport, RI. Location: The City of Newport’s off-leash park is located on Connell Highway at the base of the Pell Bridge (directly across the street from the Newport Playhouse). The park is free and open to the public from 6AM to 9PM. All dogs over 6 months of age must be licensed.

Kingston and Duxbury. Bay Farm is great, lots of other dogs and people, and a beach on the end for the dogs to swim. During the summer there are mowed paths through the tall grass, they mow the whole thing out in winter and it is a giant field. Dogs are alloed off leash but must be under owner’s control. Part of the Bay Circuit. Bay farm is 66 acres of Farmland on Kingston Bay, lots of dogs, a beach and offleash. Silver Lake is 92 acres wooded on Silver Lake, off leash, not alot of other people. Location: Bay Farm is on Landing Road on the Duxbury side of the Duxbury/Kingston Line. Silver Lake is off the south side of route 27 in Kingston just east of the pemboke/Kingston liine. Long dirt road. Directions: Silver Lake is set far off the road about 1/2 mile. There are multiple trails through the woods and a small beach on Silver Lake. It is a great place to walk, but I have actually only seen (1) other person in the dozen of so times i have walked there with my dog.

At least a hundred acres of non-working cranberry bogs, wide dirt trails and a sparkling clean pond for those whose dogs love water! This is a secluded heaven on earth. Location: Burrage Pond. Elm St. Halifax MA.

Many elements like the benches, signs and poop bag stations were created by local artists. Outside the fence is the Whale’s Tail Memorial and Super Size Dog House. Location: Shank Painter and Rte 6. Directions: Provincetown is at the very tip of Cape Cod. Follow Rte 6 from the Sagamore Bridge.

Double entry fence with two very large fenced in fields, one for large dogs and one for small dogs. There are poop bags, benches, and shade, but no water. The park closes at sunset. Location: Asylum Avenue. Directions: Take a left on Asylum Avenue from Buttonwoods Avenue. Go to the end (residential area). You will see a big sign ‘Warwick City Park.’ Turn into the parking lot and take the main road down a while. Fenced in dog park is on the right.

About 3/4 acre fenced in area. Double gated entry. Adjacent basketball courts are lit, so there is some light for night time use. No other amenities now, but we are working on raising money for shade, benches, dispensers, etc. Location: Gano Street, entry from Power Street or Fremont Street.