Dog owners and concerned citizens in Arlington County, VA: UNITE to re-open the Arlington County Dog Parks! 

On June 3rd, the County Parks & Recreation Department and its Director, Jane Rudolph, made the decision to re-open many County parks, trails, athletic facilities and tracks, but consciously chose to leave DOG PARKS indefinitely closed.

Why are dog parks treated as on-par with high-contact/riskier activities like basketball and volleyball, instead of on-par with parks, community gardens, and trails? Probably because dogs don't have good lobbyists, sadly. That changes today.

Here's what really doesn't make sense: Arlington's wide-open dog parks were the last public spaces to originally be closed, and yet many public spaces shut down long before them have now re-opened. There has been a lack of conclusive medical evidence that outdoor transmission is a high-risk problem, anyway; in a study of more than 7,300 coronavirus cases in China, for example, JUST ONE CASE was connected to outdoor transmission.

Please sign this petition, and contact​ Parks Director Jane Rudolph and email the County Board to respectfully ask they please RE-OPEN OUR ARL DOG PARKS! You can stay up to date with this campaign by following our Twitter @ARLOpen.