A Fun Place to Exercise and Play

 The Hudson Dog Park, located in Hudson, New York, at the corner of North Second and Dock streets, officially opened on October 26, 2019, after a decade of effort to make it happen. The dog park is situated on land owned by the City of Hudson, but it was built with $14,000 raised over a period of five years from more than 120 individual donors in two GoFundMe campaigns and from the not-for-profit Hudson Parks Conservancy. Designed in accordance with dog park best practices, with the help of a dog behaviorist, the dog park has an entrance vestibule and separate sections for small and large dogs. The City of Hudson Department of Public Works mows the lawn, removes the trash, and plows snow from the driveway and parking lot in winter, but other maintenance and improvements are carried out by volunteers.