Marsden Park

Marsden Park on Third Avenue is a neighbourhood park in Logan, and the first thing to know is what it is not: it is not a designated off leash area. Logan City Council's parks directory lists it as a general park, which makes it an on leash walking option rather than a free run spot. That is worth knowing before you arrive with a dog who has been promised a gallop.

The dog setup

Standard Queensland local law applies here, so your dog stays leashed for the whole visit and under your control near other users. There is no fenced dog section, no separate large and small dog zones, and no posted off leash hours to work around. Treat it as what it is: a local green space for a structured walk, sniffing laps and a change of scene rather than exercise at pace. Details on shade, seating, bins and parking are thin in the public record, so go with the basics you would bring anywhere, including waste bags in case the bins are limited.

Worth knowing

The honest use case for Marsden Park is as part of a wider Logan dog day rather than the destination itself. Walk it on leash in the cooler hours, then drive the few minutes to one of the district's dedicated fenced dog parks for the off leash half of the outing. Logan has built out a good network of them, and several sit within a ten minute radius of Third Avenue, which takes the pressure off a park that was never designed to be a dog run.

Pepsi: Not an off leash park, so keep the leash on and save the free running for Brandon Park up the road.

Close by with the dogs

For the actual run, Brandon Park Fenced Dog Park on Fairbairn Street is the local pick, fully fenced and a separate listing in its own right. Evergreen Park at Loganlea and Kingston Reserve both add more options to a loop of the area. For a post walk feed, V's Viet Cafe is in Marsden too. More ideas live under Marsden and in the wider list of Queensland dog parks.