Tambark Creek Park

Love this park! There is something for everyone here. A play area for the kiddos, walking/​biking trails, sports fields, and an off-​leash dog area for the pups to play.
Situated in between a couple different neighborhoods, this park gets a lot of families. The adults tend to be pretty attentive to the kiddos on the play area, which is nice, as I’ve been to a few play areas where the parents are busy on their phones and don’t notice the havoc that their kid is wreaking.
The trails are partly paved, they wind through a little forest that provides a nice coolness on those rare hot days.
Parking is plentiful, and there are a few picnic shelters near the play area and the sports field.

Very nice little dog park! No running water but fully fenced. Good neighborhood with good people and well behaved dogs! Parking lot is only a quick walk to the dog park.

Great place to take a walk with family, by yourself, or dog. Many trails to be discovered. Shaded areas for the hot days. A lot of kids in the play ground and at the field being active. Meet new people and neighbors everyone is friendly. Dog park is great.

Idk why this place is only three stars, but I like this park. Even the dog section was good. My kid had fun on the playground and my dogs enjoyed their area. So much thins to do here, even the trail is short but fun to do. I am definitely coming back.

We love this park quite a bit. We come her often and haven’t ever had any major problems. It has lots of room for improvement, but I’ll list what we like and don’t like about this park.
Pros:
GATED!!! Any mom with small kids understands what a relief a gated park is. You can let them have a bit of freedom.
Clean and nice bathroom facilities.
Enough shade in the morning to avoid lathering the sunscreen on everyone.
Parking right In front of the park.
Cons:
No garbage cans because it’s a“pack in/​pack out park.” I get the concept, but there is always trash littering the park by mid day. I’ve seen a facilities guy come around to pick it up. ****just out garbage cans in!!! People will use them and then the nice park isn’t littered with trash and items not safe for little kids.
Bike parking? Can they find a designated spot for this… Bikes line the gates and often have handle bars poking in. I like that people bike here. I just think putting bikes next to the gate is distracting. My kids certainly would rather look at the bikes.
Dogs. Ok… I love my dogs and I get there is a dog park, but the kid park is a kid park. Don’t bring your dogs and tie them up outside the gate, where they bark. I’ve had a parent bring her dog in the gate. She doesn’t know how dogs or kids will get along. Common sense. There is also a frequent pair of kids that carry their tiny dog and leave it in an open bag in the park. They have no parent with them and multiple times I’ve suggested they tie the dog up under the table area. I have 2yo kids who don’t understand how to leave the dog alone and it doesn’t seem friendly. Where are the parents here to say this is not okay. Can we get a sign directing dog owners to keep the dogs at the dog park, tie them up away from the gate and DO not bring them inside??? Seriously, if I have to deal with a dog bite issue in a kids play area it’s going to get REAL people. I don’t bring my kids in your dog park!
No slide??? Who forgot that… They are fired. The climbing wall is useless.
Every time I’m here I find pieces of the play structure around. Little caps that cover the bolts. Choking hazards!!! And also why are they falling out??? And since there is no garbage can… Guess where I throw them??? Outside the gate.
(And I know there is a dumpster but I’m not leaving my kids unattended because the parks department was too cheap to install garbage cans.)
I meet Nice families here and I wish more parks gated, even just portions of their parks, but Tambark could improve on these things.

This used to be a 4 star dog park for us, but we have noticed that it is not maintained as well as it was. There are no longer garbage cans near the dog park, and there are sticker bushes and small stumps throughout the park, so be careful where you walk.
This dog park is also not fully fenced. Our beagle escaped tonight through a hole in the fence. Because that wasn’t frustrating enough, our car was broken into during our search for our escape artist of a dog. They smashed the window of our car and the car next to us. The sheriff told us this has happened several times recently in the same area of the dog park.
The people here are very nice and we have not had any problems with aggressive dogs.

We take our dog here on the days when we don’t feel like driving the extra distance to Willis-​Tucker.
This park is a little hard to find, because it’s in a newer area of Mill Creek. They are building new homes behind it, too, so I imagine during weekdays it may get a little noisy.
Parking is always great and the walk from your car to the dog park itself, is not that far. It’s hardly ever crowded, the most we’ve seen there have been maybe 8 dogs?
Given that you are technically in Mill Creek, the people who frequent this dog park seem pretty obsessed with how great their dogs are. Not that it’s bad, but it’s definitely a change from the larger parks (like Loganberry, in Everett). I think every time we’ve gone here, we have been the only people with a non-​purebred.
With that said, many of the times we have visited, other people tend to stick together in clusters: the golden retriever types, the small dog types, etc. It’s not really a place where people are interested in making small-​talk.
We have never seen a dog fight here and the space itself is fairly large for those wanting the play. There are walking trails nearby, with athletic courts and a playground.
Seating is limited to a couple benches and a few donated chairs. There also isn’t any water fountain for our four-​legged friends, nor is there a trashcan nearby for poop. Plastic bags are provided, but once you pick up, you have to take your bag to the dumpster located at the entrance of the park. Of course, people rarely do this so there are liter bags left all around the outside of the fence. That is kind of annoying.
Overall, it’s a small little park with varying amenities, depending on what you’re looking for.

I like to take my little dog here to the off-​leash area and just for walks around the park. He’s a yorkie so it doesn’t take a huge park to give him a good exercise so the size of this park isn’t bad for us.
The only thing I wish they had was a more well maintained field area for general play other than the official sports teams on the sport field.
Facilities are nice and parking is great as there are 2 areas on both ends of the park.

My boyfriend and I took our 38 lb mix breed dog here after hearing a friend’s rave reviews, and were fairly disappointed (please keep in mind we are used to Marymoor). This is not so much a dog park as it is a large, muddy pen. There was one bench in the middle of the pen to sit on, and not a lot of room for running dogs to sprint. Our dog can sprint for hours on end without getting tired. Here, he was just sort of ambling around in circles with nowhere to go, and there weren’t very many other dogs for him to play with– I think actually only one when we were there. We’ll be sticking with Marymoor from now on.
As for the other reviews: dogs do, in fact run up to young children. Sometimes they even jump on them. They’re usually not aggressive, and just trying to be friendly. The dog in Linda G’s review was probably trying to play with her 4 year old daughter, not harm her.
We didn’t hear any construction noise when we were there, and I’m fairly certain we went on a weekday, so it’s possible that’s over.

I have taken my Lady Dogs to the dog park area at Tambark Creek Park twice in the past 2 weeks now. The first time, on a Sunday was great. It’s not the biggest dog park in the area by any means but it is big enough. It’s a bit bigger than an acre and covered in wood chips. The «SMART» dog people have come in and set up a water bowl, poo bags, and a trash can so all you need to bring in is some water to put in the bowl (just in case) and you should be set for your best friend to have a great time.
So today we went and it wasn’t the best time ever. We had 2 problems. My smallest best friend, my Jack Russell terrier, Daisy is really skittish about loud noises. I don’t live all that close to the area so didn’t realize that there is a lot of construction in the area. Within 10 minutes she really wanted to leave. I didn’t put it together at first. She kept running to the exit gate and back to me. Another dog parent there said «gee, I hope we aren’t about to have an earthquake!» then I heard construction noise and understood! Poor girl.
The next problem could be really bad for someone with a dog about Daisy’s size but with more of a sense of adventure. In the leash staging area, there is a gap between the fence in the gate that Daisy was able to slip out of while I was putting Tasha’s leash on her. Thankfully Daisy has no interest in being away from her people. She just really wanted to leave! Had that been Tasha who slipped out she would have bolted and looked for a more affluent family (she has a history of doing that) and I’d be at Kinkos printing out lost dog fliers now.
I will likely be back, but only on the weekends when construction workers aren’t working and only when I have someone else from home helping me with the dogs.

Wonderful addition to our community with a plethora of activities available for all including synthetic athletic fields, off-​leash dog area, picnic shelter, playground and lots of walking trails and bridges! We love our new park!