Excellent, this is great news. I found Robert E Lee park to be a well kept seacret during my Baltimore College days. We used to go there and have lunch in between classes on saturdays. I used to take my dates there for a romantic pick-nic. I stopped going years ago due to the huge amounts of dog poop everywhere you stepped. I may not make it to the grand opening, but will surely visits on saturday. Enjoy the great outdoors.

I am glad that there has to be a membership for the dog park so that people will be more responsible with their pets.

Why not have a reduced membership fee for one dog? It sounds ideal!

Dogs will no longer be allowed off leash on the trails in the northern part of the park, thanks to this piddley one-acre, members-only dog park.

On any given day, it is easy to find at least five people hiking the trails with their dogs off leash. (At three miles round-trip, the main trail is great exercise both for humans and (especially) animals who have a tendency to run two or three times the distance that their humans do.)

I have been walking my dogs there for upwards of six years and have never seen any issues with our canine friends, other than the occasional plastic bag of dog poop. (Local residents have taken it upon themselves to put a trash can at the trail head, which they empty themselves since the County refuses to stop their garbage trucks--"it's not on their route"--which is hilarious.) People and dogs reside happily with one another--one of the few places where dog owners can let their dogs get the actual exercise they need.

Now, the County is going to have to spend money on policing the trails to hand out citations to people who are really causing no trouble to anyone. While it’s nice that they fixed the bridge, this is clearly just another example of local politicians trying to fix things that are not broken.

My young son and I were attacked by 2 large dogs, running loose and not controlled by owners, at Robert E Lee park. I am happy there will be a place for dogs and a place for people who don't bring dogs to the park.

Hopefully in a couple years thy'll get a dog park in Hampden and we won't need Robert E. Lee park. If you want to be involved in that discussion visit http://www.hampdendogpark.com/.