Friends of Barstow Woods
Protecting a park our community loves.
Working to preserve and enhance Barstow Woods as a welcoming, dog-friendly community park.
A park with its own character
What makes Barstow special
Barstow brings together wooded trails, open meadow, a shaded playground, a pavilion for gatherings and the Barstow Woods Commons — the large fenced area where people and dogs have long shared the park together.
It works because all of those uses coexist in one neighborhood park with a character that has grown organically over time.
The Master Plan
Planning Barstow’s future
The City is developing a new Master Plan for Barstow Woods. We support thoughtful improvements throughout the park while advocating for the Commons and its successful use pattern to be formally recognized in the plan.
Preserve and formalize what works.
This is the moment to make sure the Commons — including its long-established off-leash dog use — is clearly part of Barstow’s future.
Our approach
What we stand for
We want Barstow to keep evolving — without losing the qualities that already make it work so well for the people who use it.
Preserve what works.
Protect the park’s natural beauty, the Commons and the established patterns of community use that make Barstow distinctive.
Improve thoughtfully.
Support smart, sustainable improvements that make the whole park better without displacing the uses people already value.
Give park users a voice.
Make sure the people who know and use Barstow — including dog owners, families and neighbors — are part of decisions about its future.
More than a place to walk
Barstow is a community
Dogs may be the reason many people first come to Barstow, but the impact of the park is deeply human. Regular walks become friendships. Familiar faces become neighbors. Families and generations get to know one another simply because they keep returning to the same place.
That lived community is part of what the Master Plan should protect.
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