Tampa, Florida
- Dog parks per 100,000 residents: 4.0
- Total dog parks: 15
- City population: 379,551
Tampa, like its nearby neighbor St. Petersburg, is proud to be a dog-friendly place — the city’s website has a section called Barks & Recreation. Even the local highway authority, the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway, is dog-friendly.
It recently opened the Deputy John Kotfila, Jr. Memorial Dog Park under an expressway. A study by RewardExpert ranked the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater region as the No. 1 region to travel with pets in the U.S.
