Los Angeles Interior designer Nate Berkus has been adding fantasy to homes for 16 years, inspiring people with just the right creative touch. But hes been a dog-lover even longer, and hes turning his design expertise to a half-million-dollar fantasy dog park.

Berkus, 41, has joined the creative team for the 2014 Beneful Dream Dog Park Contest. Contestants have to answer one question: If you had $500,000 to create a Dream Dog Park where you and your best buddy can play together, what would you do?

In Lancaster, Pa., the answer included a doggy amusement park with a tennis ball tree and a 40-foot roller coaster bridge. The park there the third contest winner opened Aug. 6.

The first park was built in Johns Creek, Ga., with a family destination theme and includes a bone-shaped bridge, two splash pads, tunnels, rubberized mulch paths and shade trees. The second park in Alabaster, Ala., has synthetic turf, agility rings, a walking trail, a fetch football field, fire hydrant goalposts and a mulch adventure path with tunnels, said Brent Gleckler, brand director for Beneful dog food.

There is nothing I love more than being with my dog, Berkus said of sidekick Tucker, a black mutt. Together, they visit a dog park nearly every night.

The parks in Alabaster and Johns Creek have been tourist magnets. In Georgia, the city had to make 72 new parking spaces next to the park to accommodate visitors.

In Alabama, people take good care of the park, but the city does a walkthrough once a day, sprays it down twice a week and uses a biodegradable chemical once a month, city parks director Tim Hamm said.

The dog park is part of the citys flagship Veterans Park, with a ball field complex, 2.5-mile walking trail, eight pavilions with picnic tables, two playgrounds, a skateboard park and veterans memorial, Hamm said.

Every day, they get calls from tourists asking about hours and directions.

The more people that come to our city, the more people will stop, eat and buy gas. We are all for that. Out-of-town users are great, Hamm said. Anybody who wants to come, we more than welcome them in town.

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She tapped into her creative genes by taking painting classes while her children grew up. But it wasn't until Morgan was in her 40s that she decided to go back to school and study fine arts.

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It took her six years she attended classes part-time while she raised her family but she earned her degree.

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Morgan died July 27 of cancer. She was 91.

Robinson said that in an era when women were starting to feel empowered, her mother became a much more liberal person.

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