Encinitas Community Park

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Encinitas Community Park on Santa Fe Drive is a 44-acre municipal facility that opened in 2014 following a $19.3 million construction project by the City of Encinitas. The 2-acre Maggie Houlihan Memorial Dog Park within the complex features separate fenced zones for large dogs, small dogs, and shy first-timers, an infrastructure built for the same graduated-socialization approach taught by School of Paws across their group and private sessions. Reservable softball, baseball, and multi-purpose soccer fields occupy the park's north section, managed through the City Sports Coordinator at (760) 633-2756. A 34,000-square-foot concrete skatepark designed by engineering firm Stantec includes both a street-style plaza and a deep bowl section, a feature recognized as one of North County's premier skating venues. Decomposed-granite paths thread past a rose garden, butterfly garden, and dry creek bed with boulder features, creating a passive-recreation circuit that dog-care operators — Kamp Kanine Day Care for Dogs among them — incorporate into group socialization outings. The Stantec-designed skatepark occupies 34,000 square feet of poured concrete combining a street-plaza section with ledges, rails, and manual pads alongside a deep bowl built to competition depth for advanced transition skating.