A dog park in the West End portion of Palmerton remains closed.

Borough Manager Autumn Canfield on Monday said the park at Alley J, above portions of the 800 and 900 blocks of Edgemont Avenue, is off limits.

“It’s just the season,” Canfield said. “We had gotten a call; we don’t have a formal dog park committee, (but) one of (its) proponents had called about concerns with water running through with the rain and the snow and the frozen ground.”

Canfield said the park has been closed since mid-January.

“We were just trying to preserve it for the season so that it stays nice for spring,” she said. “We might have a small reopening thing (at some point).”

Last February, Lisa Snell Kern, president of Friends of the Palmerton Dog Park, told borough council the group’s vision was to hold several small events, such as Egg Hunt for dogs, along with several other holiday-themed activities at the park.

Snell Kern then asked if they could look to have the dog park being a subcommittee that would report to the borough’s recreation committee.

Council did not take any action on her request at that time.

Earlier that month, Councilman Andrew Hollywood asked visitors to the dog park to clean up after their pets.

Hollywood said at that time there were some concerns expressed with the dog park at the West End Recreation Association.

He said users of the dog park had been leaving the gates open when they left at night.