The bark park is cool and all, but there needs to be somewhere public dogs can run free, unleashed, AND be able to swim.
It doesn't matter to me, I just take mine to the beach and let him roam freely out there. I never go before 7PM and as most of you have probably noticed, at least down near the west end of 30A, almost everybody on the beach after 7 has their pup with them so it works out fine.