About Off-Leash USA
Off-Leash USA is a Phase 1 directory of dog-friendly beaches and public off-leash parks in California, Florida, Texas, New York and Washington. It is a static, pre-rendered site. It has not been published yet.
The aim is simple: put the rules in writing, cite the official source, and be honest when we do not know.
What is in Phase 1
- 150 dog-beach listings, each with an official source URL and a last-checked date
- 2,462 public dog parks from OpenStreetMap, after private and commercial filters
- State hubs, city hubs where a city has three or more listings of that type, and a page for every location
Sources
Beach rules come only from official government pages we could read, including city and county parks departments, California State Parks, New York State Parks, Washington State Parks, and the National Park Service. We paraphrase; we do not copy ordinances in full. If a well-known beach had no official source we could cite, it is omitted for now.
Park locations and tags come from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License. A derived park database must be attributed and shared alike under ODbL. Unique editorial text on this site is not OSM data.
When an OSM park had no city tag, we assigned the nearest city within 25 km using the free US Cities Database from SimpleMaps. We use that database locally to power city names; we do not republish the database itself.
We do not scrape Google Maps or other directories. Campus labels in the cities file are skipped so a park is assigned to the nearby municipality, not to a university census point. A few badly tagged OSM values, such as a lighting tag of “grass,” are treated as not verified.
Park pages that have only a fallback name and no amenity data are kept in the directory and remain linked, but they are marked noindex and are omitted from the sitemap. They should not compete in search with pages that have a real name or a cited feature.
What this is not
This is not official advice, a complete inventory, or a guarantee that a rule has not changed since we checked. Always read the signs. Off-Leash USA is not affiliated with OpenStreetMap, the National Park Service, or any city or state agency.