New Caribou Bark Park gives dogs a public place to run loose and play

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Published astatine 8:45 pm, July 8, 2024

IDAHO FALLS – A brand-new, one-acre canine parkland is welcoming furry friends to a world of socializing and exploration.

The Caribou Bark Park connected Easy Street down Winco successful Idaho Falls officially opened complete 1 week agone pinch a ribbon-cutting by nan Greater Idaho Falls Chamber. It’s a fenced successful area wherever dogs tin tally and play without nan owners worrying astir wherever they’ll extremity up.

It consists of 2 fenced, triangular segments pinch a section betwixt large dogs and mini dogs. Caribou Bark Park features benches, 7 caller shadiness trees, a h2o spigot and a Mutt Mitt for canine poop scoop bags, developers said.

The parkland is simply a collaboration betwixt nan developer of nan adjacent Caribou Crossing townhouses — Haven Idaho — and nan City of Idaho Falls. When it’s afloat built, nan Caribou Crossing task will dwell of 89 townhomes.

Initially, nan conception for a canine retreat was generated by 600 vicinity members astatine a organization trunk-or-treat, wherever 60% of respondents connected a Google shape said they’d for illustration to spot a canine parkland successful nan space, said Julia Ruiz, trading head for Caribou Crossing.

“The improvement decided to squad up pinch nan metropolis of Idaho Falls and past springiness backmost by putting successful this canine parkland first,” Brad Camphouse, Homes of Idaho realtor and nan listing supplier for Caribou Crossing, said.

The metropolis will support nan park, while Caribou Crossing provided nan backing to build it.

In nan future, nan developers are considering adding a shadiness structure, on pinch agility instrumentality for nan dogs.

The canine owners who visited nan Bark Park for its expansive opening were thrilled pinch nan caller space.

“I’m gladsome it’s truthful adjacent to home, not connected nan different broadside of town,” Ammon resident Edie Schwarz said. “I person a mini yard, which is doable, but this is acold better, and (my pet Sadie) tin interact pinch different dogs. So this is wonderful. You get to meet immoderate of your neighbors too.”

Jenikah and Cedric Meservy brought their 2 dachshunds, Maverick and Lily, to research nan area.

“I emotion really large and freely it is,” Jenikah Meservy said. “I for illustration really it has small trees for shadiness for nan dogs.”

The mates exercises their pets connected an “almost daily” ground and besides takes them to nan Snake River Animal Park. They are grateful now for 2 options successful Idaho Falls to meet caller group and their dogs.

The expansive opening besides included a canine costume contest, basking canine barbecue and music.

Lonnie Lewis’s poodle Dandy won nan “coolest” canine award.

Lewis moved to Idaho Falls a twelvemonth agone and owns a canine grooming business.

“I for illustration nan truth that there’re mini and ample (dog areas) and that they’re separated out,” she said. “As a groomer, that’s ace important because you don’t want to person immoderate injuries aliases attacks aliases thing for illustration that.”

So far, nan Caribou Crossing improvement is successful shape one, pinch 17 units built and 12 much nether construction.

In 2026 aliases 2027, erstwhile each 3 phases of Caribou Crossing are completed, developers will build an further parkland area for nan organization connected nan northbound broadside of nan substation down WinCo.

“We’d for illustration to do pickleball courts, and we’d for illustration to do a playground and a fittingness trail,” Caribou Crossing’s Principal Developer Tanner Verhoeks said. “We’ve been talking astir expanding nan canine parkland into this area (south of nan substation) too, truthful you person an (expanded) ample canine and mini canine (area). We talked astir building a Hobbit Hill. Then successful nan winter, it could beryllium a sledding elevation for nan kids.”