Reviews of Sandy Lake Park (Park)

April McNair

Hidden jem, great family spot.

Steph O'Connor

Perfect place to go, walking trails, a park with sand, small beach area, picnic tables and benches! Love it!

Karl Flanders

Great place to walk dogs off leash. Great trails

Shane Patelakis

Great place to hike, bike, trail run and walk your dogs

Glenn Reardon

Great for swimming

Neil Frelick

This is a sandy beach (of course!) With shallow, warm water that the kids will play on all day!

Eduardo Jaber

Wish the water was nore accesible with my toddler, yet very fun and safe for the kids, water is warmer than most places

Elle Sing

Love this off leash park in the winter and fall and spring!!!! Great place to swim and lots of other friendly dogs to meet on this simple trail

Oleksandr Semenov

Beautiful place

Innikki

Love it here!

Lakota Solomon

Nice spot to swim or to relax on a hot day. Life guard on duty. Decent amount of parking. Lots of walking trails near by

Caden Hebb

Great off-leash (October-June) forest park. A short path leads to a beach area and the rest of the paths are forest paths leading down to the lake. I was disappointed that there is no map anywhere at the park of the trails. Luckily, I had my phone and looked up the map. There are many trails that are not on the online maps of the park - probably desire paths. The signs showing where was off-leash sometimes contradicted each other. Overall, a solid 4 stars. My dog loved bounding through the forest. I went after heavy rain and the forest floor was very slippery but made the fall colours extra pretty.

Reynaldo Jr.

Beautiful and clean space. The parking lot has a plenty of space. There are safeguards during the summer.

Michael Hebert

I love this walk for my puppy. It's not too busy and it has lots of different areas you can go. My only complaint is that more people need to be responsible and pick up after their dogs.

Terry (Soda)

Nice picnic area and shallow beach to swim

LeeAnn Ostia

Beautiful place.

Lilian Mara

Awesome! It could have bathrooms though

Mark Gavan

Nice walk to the lake.

Tanner Animation

Nice

Moath Basil

The swimming area is not big enough to receive all the visitors, which makes it crowded place in general. The lake has basic facilities and Baywatch available and showers and public toilet. The place is not perfectly maintained as toilets (For example) were not so clean. The waters were nice and shallow for little ones. The park is clean and in good shape. Parking was not close to the lake, but not far for a nice walk, however, this leaves a challenge to those who needs accessibility aid.

Didar Nanakaly

It is great calm park, have lunch seats and located at the front side of a small lake beach which you can swim either. There are restrooms and very beautiful picnic area, but the only thing that you should think about it is parking lot. The parking lot is kind of far from the park, it's located in a place surrounded by trees, out of attention which may lead to incidents such robberies or breaking car windows. Moreover, you need to walk almost 1000 feet walking to get to the park from the parking lot. Please press like on my review if you are agree with me. Thank you,

Raquel Chubey

Great park. My dogs enjoyed the walk. Met up with a few other dog owners and had a nice chat. Beautiful spot

ashaya logan

It's ok. Extremely small. Lots of bugs and flies. Nice and shallow if you have small children.

Mindalynn Frelick

I like this little lake for swimming on hot days. The only problem I have with it is how busy it gets.

Mark Williams

This park was a great discovery, only 20 minutes from downtown. The lake is ideal for young kids since it has a very shallow grade even more so than a wading pool. The beach and part of the water were in the morning shade. The park was clean, beautiful, had both a lawn and a sandy area above the beach to play in and it has washrooms.

Don MacKenzie

What a great little park. I have lived here for forty years and did not know it existed. Several clean washrooms. Great swimming. The water was high so we did not have a beach but it looks like there is a good beach when the water goes down. There is about a 500 meter from the parking lot to the grassy picnic / beach area. Easy walk in but a little climb getting back out. I is hard to believe that one can be in the wilderness and still be in the city. Lots of picnic tabkes.

Bri

Great place to walk the dog, love that it's off leash during the off season. Very clean but lots of bugs after 7pm

BY U

A good place with my baby. My favorite place in Halifax

Barry Kanasewich

Great for walks with children and dogs!

Dave Wilbur

Very good location, well looked after and lots of off leash areas for pets.

Tattooed Paramedic

Amazing people and great place for dogs off leach this time of year.

Matt Wilkie

Good place fun

Daniel King

Best unknown fishing swimming spot in Bedfordz

Sandeep Singh

One of the quieter lakes in HRM, specifically in weekdays. Got a very good shallow beach, good for families and kids.

Katie Enman

Great off-leash trail for dogs. Humans bring your bug spray because the flies will easily carry you away if it's the right time of day.

Jeeno Lee

great place to enjoy

Emma Dilemma

Great picnic area! No beach to speak of, just stairs into the water lol, but the water was lovely.

Steve Auton

Nice trails. Great place to let dogs go off leash in season.

Eric Silver (Silver)

Great lake for a walk, kayak, and you night even catch a bass!

Bill Haley

Beautiful, hidden gem, all I can say!

Travis Conrad

Love this area

Simon Gomez

A family favorite esp with toddlers!

Rodrigo Januário da Silva

Nice place for swimming

Jennifer MacKinnon

Discovered this great little park yesterday with trails through the woods and a small sandy beach. Had a great hike and found a few geocaches, fun for the whole family! We'll definitely be back ????

Robin Heider

Excellent park to walk your dog. We only did the first half today through the conifer forest by the lake to the beach then back via the road. Right time of year as the whole park is off lease as of Oct 1.

Traverse Davies

It's great for dogs from October to June, as most of it is off leash. Great for families and swimming over the summer. One of the warmest lakes in Nova Scotia

Sarah Ryan-Carroll

Great place to walk your dog off leash

okjo kim

play with kids. good place

Yingxin Ren

Nice spot

Scott MacKinnon

Great place to go geocaching, take the dog to the off leash area. Had a good hike with the kids. Not to busy either.

Alain Girard

Absolutely beautiful park minutes outside the city. Great spot to walk or take the pups out to play. Beautiful lake, but there is no easy access to launch canoes/kayaks without a long/steep carry. One of the many Sandy Lakes in HRM :)

도혜정

It is good to be close at home. The best place for kids to play.

Nicholas Ward

Nice little spot for a walk and a swim in summer. Has been pretty quiet any time I have gone. Bathrooms are unreliable as sometimes they are locked.

Tara b

Bailey & I love this place!! We're there at least twice a week for some much needed fresh air & freedom!! Love the trails!!

Oneblueone Brown

Off leash! Puppies love it. Clean lake.

Gordon Edgar

This is a great spot for a picnic or BBQ. Nice swimming in the summer (not the winter, obviously). There are lifeguards. Can be hard to get to. Worth it.

amy kian

beautiful but not what I thought, lots of mosquitoes!

Rod Dosman

Nice spot

Mairi MacDonald

wonderful hidden gem.

adioable

Great outdoors

David MacRae

Good

Ferdousy Hamid

Warm water, best lake to swim with babies and kid. Stroller friendly. Only 20 minutes from downtown Halifax. Love it.

Shelbie Deyoung

great trails , clean environment and also an off leash dog park . What more could you need ? Also public washrooms on site . Awesome place to take the family for the day .

Shelley Purcell

Nice off leash park. Great walk in the woods with many entrances into the lake for both dogs and their people.

Robert Larter

Great little walk short tail , and awesome place to walk a dog, the people and dogs especially seem friendly! In summer time the lake is great for swimming in shallow enough to stand up far out but deep enough to swim.

Dennis Kebaya

Beautiful and clean beach for a family. You can take a dip, fish and bask in the summer sun.

George MacLean

Not a bad spot to bring your dog as they have off leash trails which have water access for your dog. The actual beech area is underwhelming however and is not dog friendly most of the year.

Barry Efford

Beautiful spot. Great sunset, great people and awesome dogs! The wooded area is great for dogs to explore

Tammy Carew

Loved it..Our 1st time there!!

Lynn Morrison

Short through the woods and along the lake. Beautiful blanketed in snow

Simon Peck

A good little swimming area with lifeguards, and a grass area for sitting, eating, playing etc complete with washroom facilities. However, it is difficult to sit and watch children swimming due to the line of trees and rocks at the water's edge.

Catherine Delaney

Nice park. For dogs shubie park is better though.

Sybil Nunn

Great off leash park. Main trails are off leash October to June. Woods trails are off leash year round.

Alexandra Estabrooks

Great place to take your dog off leash. Never had a problem there.

Nitin Singh

Its really amazing. Gives you the feel of a lake and sea beach.

Mark Fainshtein

Beautiful place!

Chris Swift

Nice quiet lake. Not much sand for laying out, but nice place, very clean water

Gary Acker

Great off leash area

Lynn Manuel

It was like bath water ????. Park area was nice. Dog aren't allowed on the beach or in picnic area

Abeer Aly

Lots of ignorant owners of the beach rules. No enforcement of the NO DOGS ALLOWED in and around the beach area. There were some rude people who could not care less about their dogs terrifying my kids who were playing at the water.

Dawn Gaudet

Love he off leash opportunity this park presents. Beautiful day to be there in yhe snow.

Terri Rideout

Wonderful old growth forest nearby.

Zubair Ahmed

Beautiful Lake. Dogs can be unleashed here.

Tiffany Rollins

Top rated place to go for off leash trails hiking with Negan! If you go off the main trail, some areas are not well marked and easy to wander in the wrong direction. It is typically wet and muddy trail and sadly garbage has been left by others. There is no garbage containers in the off season time, except at the front entrance. Reminder to bring out what you brought in.

Lexi Lively

Do not wear $300 shoes on this trail #shouldaknownbetter lmao

Stacey Lyght

I thought it would have a better trail system

Simone Thiers

(Translated) I loved it ! (Original) Adorei !