After the deaths of Stephen in 2010 and Gwen in 2013, the site has been managed by the non-profit Friends of Dog Mountain.

They also hoped that it would be a place where people could mourn for the dogs in their lives that had died and find comfort by leaving notes and remembrances.

[3] The small chapel was filled with thousands of notes and pictures that people left to pay tribute to their pets.

They needed to sell many prints, sculptures, furniture and books in order to keep the place going and this proved harder to do during the recession.

[3][1] A documentary about the location, Dog Mountain: A Love Story, was produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister for Long Haul Productions, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and KCRW’s Independent Producer Project.