Devon’s Dog Park

Devon's Dog Park sits inside Greenland Open Space in Larkspur, managed by Douglas County's Division of Open Space and Natural Resources. Despite the homemade-sounding name, this is a real county facility, not a private or town-run patch: a fully fenced off-leash area of roughly 17 acres on the east side of the Greenland trailhead, reached off I-25 at the Greenland exit and then a short gravel road to the trailhead. The name comes from Devon Theune, whose 2008 Girl Scout Gold Award project created it, which is a genuinely nice piece of local history rather than marketing.

The appeal is space. Seventeen fenced acres inside a 3,000-plus-acre open space gives a dog actual running room, and it draws owners from southern Douglas County and northern El Paso County who would otherwise drive much farther for a real off-leash area. It is free, it is open, and it is the kind of place a high-energy dog can actually open up rather than do laps of a small city pen.

We will be careful about amenities. The Douglas County dog parks in this part of the county are documented to have benches and simple agility-type features, but rather than assert specific water or agility infrastructure for Devon's that we could not pin to the official county page, the safe plan is to bring your own water and treat it as an open fenced field, not an amenity park. Confirm specifics on the Douglas County Greenland Open Space page if it matters to your trip.

Hours follow the standard Douglas County open-space pattern of roughly one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. The gravel access road and the open exposure are the two practical notes: it can be windy and shadeless out here, so an early or late visit beats the middle of a hot afternoon. For the southern county, this is the off-leash destination worth knowing.