Ladera Ranch Wagsdale Dog Park

08/09/2024

Cross-posting this as it breaks my heart that people take dog-ownership so lightly. This poor lab has been with her family for 7 years and now the family decides they can't make the time to care for her? Sorry, I don't feel bad for the family, I feel bad for the dog. How difficult is it to give a loved one meds every 12-hours, really? She deserves a better family for sure! She even looks sad! You'll have to join this Facebook Group I think to reach this person, or maybe you can use Messenger to reach her directly.

08/07/2024

** Temporary Park Closure on Friday, August 9th (morning until about 2/3pm) **

Hi all, LARMAC will need to temporarily close the Large Dog Park Friday morning to do some construction to the Circular Benches surrounding the trees. We had a dog get a severe gash to her torso requiring numerious stitches when she crawled under the benches. To keep the dogs from digging and running in and out from under the benches, LARMAC is going to close off the bottom portion of the benches. Please do NOT encourage your dogs to dig under these boards. If they do, LARMAC will be forced to remove the benches completely which I’m sure none of us want that to happen. Please stop any dogs from digging in ALL areas of the Park. Holes dug by dogs can cause other dogs (and people) to accidentally step into them and injure their CCL or worse, so please, if you don’t let your dog dig in your backyard, please don’t let them dig in our community areas.

07/25/2024

A reminder about the dangers of Foxtails to dogs.

Foxtail grass seeds burrow into pets' nose, gums, ears and more, leading to painful and expensive remedies or even death. They're out in full force right now.

07/25/2024

Pic just for attention but while walking the perimeter tonight for some steps I picked up 8 extra piles of 💩💩 that had clearly been fresh from today. Let’s please pay attention to our dogs “deposits” and if you leave the park without seeing your dog do their business you know you probably missed seeing it happen so please go pick up another pile that someone else missed! Let’s work together to keep our park clean and our dogs healthy!!

06/24/2024

Hi Neighbors - Just passing on a warning about older Pool Passes. I found out this weekend that those of us with OLDER Security Passes, LARMAC is either de-activating them, or they are randomally stopping working at specific locations. They said Wagsdale and some of the pool locks? I've used both my passes successfully for years as I'm at the Dog Park almost every day, and thankfully figured this out the night before going to the Pool on Saturday!
I've always had 2 passes with my name and photo. LARMAC told me they won't issue 2 in my name anymore, and if I have my child's name on the pass then they want to charge me another $20 to replace it even though in our CC&R's it states we are allowed 2 passes free of charge per household. I'm addressing this issue with them, but just a heads up that if you're planning a Pool or Dog Park Visit and your Pass doesn't work, you'll probably need to go get a new one. I don't know if this is a way for LARMAC to make some quick $$ issusing new passes and charging another $20 for a replacement or what. They gave me the 1st replacement free but said they would charge for any other replacements!! I’m contesting that because it's not our fault that they've bought new equipment that is not campatible with our old Passes!

04/19/2024

Just a reminder that Ladera Ranch Wagsdale Dog Park is closed for some Annual Maintenance until Tuesday, April 23rd after the normal weekly closure ends at 3PM.

Let's all get together then for an Opening Day Celebration!

09/01/2023

Update on the SMALL DOG PARK. LARMAC has confirmed they will close the Small Dog side of the park from Monday, Sept. 11 to Tuesday, Sept. 26 and reopen at 3pm on 9/26.

They will be repairing and replacing turf and are looking into adding a tree for additional shade as that has been mentioned to me along with additional poo waste bag dispensers and receptacles.

08/16/2023

GREAT NEWS!!! The Large Dog Park side is now back open and looks beautiful! Grass is extra long right now to help it stay healthy while the summer sun is still hot...so please be EXTRA diligent about WATCHING your dogs to pick-up after their "deposits" so no one, and no dogs end up stepping in them!!!

While the park was closed LARMAC installed a very cute "around the tree" seating area which will be nice to sit on and set your bag on.

Work will begin on the Small Dog side soon...Sorry I didn't take photos yesterday, I will tonight and will update this post.

07/29/2023

Just a reminder that the LARGE DOG side of Ladera Ranch Wagsdale Dog Park will be closed for re-sodding an aeration for 2 week from Monday, July 31 to Thursday, August 10th.

07/15/2023

A big THANK YOU to the kind soul who brought the 2 large water bowls for the pups!! I hope this Summer's visitors are more respectful than last year...I brought one and it got taken!

07/15/2023

How well hidden is this little one?! 🤣😂🤣😂

07/15/2023

Hi everyone - Just a heads up, that I was told today by Ken Gibson from LARMAC that they are looking to fix the huge dirt patch in the Large Dog Park and also re-sod some of the other bad grass areas starting on Monday, July 31. Their plan is to close the Large Dog Park for 2 weeks so they can prep, put down new sod and then water heavily until the sod can root.

I've send another note asking him if it's perhaps better to wait until the end of Summer when its not so hot...we'll see what he comes back with. But just spreading the word of what I've been today today.

He said when they've tried keeping the park open with fencing, they've gotten complaints about the fence or compaints about there being too much watering? I can't say I've ever felt they've over-watered at Wagsdale!

06/15/2023

The LARCS Team put on a nice Paws in the Park Event on June 3rd. There were many fun vendors with Doggie Scarves, Dog Treats and Food, Doggie Massage and Therapy and even free Pupachino and Human donuts!! Both the Big and Small Dog Parks were full of people as well. Thank you LARCS for a fun event. My Theo enjoyed visiting his Bestie Kristine Ford from

04/03/2023

I've been told Wagsdale opened late in the afternoon yesterday (Sunday 4/2/23). Please be sure and check www.LaderaLife.com site for actual opening and closing due to rain and this site is not constantly monitored. You can go to the Amenity Status section and they usually have it noted if they keep the Park closed due to rain.

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04/02/2023

We're all disappointed that LARMAC keeps closing Wagsdale for so many days after such a light rain. All Wagsdale visitors from Ladera need to send in an email to [email protected] and voice your displeasure. As Creator and Administrator of this page, I am constantly reaching out to get gates repaired, get the grounds cleaned up and have the grass re-seeded or re-sodded but I am only one voice. We all pay a lot HOA Fees and unless our requests are sent in (hopefully via email for proof) nothing will happen.

If we all attended a Board Meeting, who here would show up to voice our concerns?

04/13/2022

Hi all, well we're into Week 2 of Wagsdale being closed. It looks like they've gotten a lot done in the 7 days of construction. Let's hope everything goes according to plan and they reopen by early May. A list of the improvements are below. Ken Gibson also told me that the benches were being re-installed along the edges of the large dog park, apparently they will not sit on the planned DG (decomposed granite) Trail that will go all around the edges of the park. This trail is were all of the irrigation/sprinklers will pop-up from to hopefully avoid mud puddles from forming in the grass areas.

I need to ask what type of seating they are planning on putting back under the new shade structures. Guessing a bench or two?

02/26/2022

It's been a couple years, but LARCS is bringing back PAWS IN THE PARK! Event is scheduled for June 4, 2022 from 9am to 11:30am. No specifics on what Vendors will be in attendance yet. Will try and get more details soon, but mark your Calendars. If nothing else, we can all get together for Coffee and Donuts in the Park!!!

02/26/2022

Hi everyone...so it's been fairly quiet on this page lately, but I have some potentially good news to share. Back in Fall of last year, I had a meeting with Ken Gibson of LARMAC and a few other people from O'Connell Landscaping about the horrible DG (decomposed granite) and the center benches being dangerous. After that meeting, we agreed to give them a final chance to fix the DG from spilling out and leaving messy rocks and pebbles all of the walkways which is a sliding danger to dogs and humans. They took 2 days to try and fix it with the company who installed it and it still is a mess. The benches got installed along the sides of the park which I found many people started using. In the past couple of weeks, LARMAC took them out, as apparently there was an issue which the way they sunk the foundation into the ground. They are planning on putting them back in.

The new news is, LARMAC is proposing to now take out all of the messy DG (finally, horray!! 🥳) and they are also considering pulling over all of the concrete walkway from the entryway to the shade areas with the Pergolas (which still need repair). They are hoping this will provide more grass, and a less structured standing area and playing spots for the dogs. The whole idea behind moving the benches to the sides is to try and get people to stand in different areas of the park so the dogs then PLAY in different areas of the park to cut down on continued usage in the same places which leads to over-use and dead grass. I think this will help along with the rotation of grass repair as needed.

Appreciate everyone feedback on this idea of less concrete, more grass.

Some other thoughts being floated are changing out the Pergola areas as we had a severe dog accident which has left a dog semi-paralalized due to slamming into one of the 2' concrete pillars of the Pergola. Thoughts are these are somewhat over-built and way too close to the benches as the dogs try and run between them. Personally I never sit while at the park, the dogs always follow where the people are, so I'm usually try and stand out on the sides or in the open throwing the balls for the dogs. Perhaps removing the huge concrete pillars and instead installing smaller poles with Shade Sails for shade. Overall probably less expensive to replace the Sails after a few years than the wood structures as they are getting termites. The small dog park structure is now also falling down.

01/16/2022

Wanted to share this other Facebook site I came across. While we don't get too many mushroom growing here in SoCal, there are multiple posts about how Toxic SAGO PALMS are to dogs, I've even heard the seed pods are extremely toxic. I've removed all of my Sago Palms after hearing about how bad they are for dogs.

05/24/2021

Would love everyone's feedback on what LARMAC has decided to do with putting the "crushed granite" in the center section of the large dog park. Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? I'm feeling we need to petition for a better solution. It just seems very dusty, messy and very slippery. I've heard some dogs are getting their paw pads ripped up if they're big into running and sliding in that area?

04/24/2021

Does anyone know this German Shepard? Found near Wagsdale Friday night by Jennifer Chris.