COLA - Citizens for Off-Leash Areas in Seattle, Washington

06/20/2025

🐾🎉 Calling all dogs (and their humans)!
Join us Sunday, June 22 at 2 PM for the fluffiest, most feel-good event of the weekend: the Dog Parade at Fremont Fair! 🐶💫
We’re celebrating pups of all shapes, sizes, and styles as they strut their stuff through the Fair.
✨ Register your pup today via the link in bio or sign up day-of at the JustFoodForDogs tent, we can’t wait to see you there!

10/16/2024

🚨 Community Meeting Alert! 🚨

Seattle Parks & Recreation is hosting two important meetings about the upcoming Off-Leash Area (OLA) developments at West Seattle Stadium and Othello Playground! 🐕🌳

📅 Dates:

• October 23, 4-6 p.m. at West Seattle Stadium
• October 24, 4-6 p.m. at Othello Playground

Without community feedback, Seattle Parks will continue to develop very small OLAs that are insufficient for the population of dogs in Seattle. This is your chance to provide feedback, ask questions, and help shape the design of these new off-leash areas!

01/13/2024

Our friends at Seattle Animal Shelter are hosting a vaccine clinic this coming Thursday, January 18. This is the first in a series of clinics. Please share with those in need!

12/22/2023

200 cubic yards of engineered wood fiber was laid down at Westcrest this week. This area had seen very little use since coarse gravel had been installed during the drainage project in fall of 2022. Initial impressions are very positive! We will see how it holds up in hopes that it’s a solution we can use at other OLAs.

07/26/2023

Seattle Parks and Recreation is deciding where to build two new off-leash areas, using $3.4 million in funding that dog owners rallied for in last year's Parks District funding process. Read more about how to be heard in our latest newsletter at https://conta.cc/3OtO2NB or access the survey directly at https://tinyurl.com/seadogsurvey (be sure to ask for more space!). Respond by July 31.

05/05/2022

Seattle is planning the budget for the next six years of the Parks District funding. Sending an email only takes a minute, at it goes a long way towards adequate funding for our dog parks.

In 2014, Seattle voters formed the Seattle Parks District, which supplements the Seattle Parks & Recreation’s (SPR) budget by over $50 Million per year. This money is allocated on a six-year cycle. In the first cycle (2015-2020), only about $100,000 of the $50 million per year in Parks District mo...