Don Velley Brick Works

This small park, located off of Bayview Avenue between Rosedale and Moore Park, features wildflower meadows and wetlands in a former brick quarry. A series of boardwalks criss-crosses the wetland areas. A Great Blue Heron hunts amongst the rushes, turtles sunbathe on a floating log, and numerous songbirds fly through the meadow. The only drawback from a dogwalking point of view is that there is no shade, and you can feel the heat rising from the meadows in the mid-day sun. This should be a pleasant place to walk in the fall.



There is a side path leading halfway up the ravine along the eastern edge of the park. This wide trail is partly shaded by the trees. Local dog walkers appear to be using the path as a leash-free zone, though I may have been unlucky the one time I used that trail. The trail is flanked on both sides by poison ivy, so it is actually in everyone's interest to keep the dogs on leash and on the path.

There is also a fully fenced dog park called the "Dog Patch" just south of the parking lot. The park is about 50% shaded. The ground cover in the unshaded parts is gravel which gets very hot in the summer sun. There is a very small creek oozing its way through the park. It dries up almost completely in the summer, but still appears capable of supporting a large population of mosquitos.