Hike With Your Dog
helping you find a tail-friendly trail since 2001
DO NOT let this happen to you.
National parks are America’s best idea - state parks are a dog’s best idea.
National parks may have been called “America’s best idea,” but for dog lovers, they often feel like the nation’s biggest tease - epic trails and grand vistas, yet dogs are restricted to paved pull-outs and campgrounds in all but a handful of parks. Enter state parks: America’s second best idea, and arguably the best idea of all for those who hike with four paws in tow.
Now in paperback and ebook…
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When you absolutely have to find a dog-friendly hike…
The 63 National Parks were created to safeguard
exceptional places, and that mission comes with
necessary restrictions. Dogs are usually limited to paved
areas, overlooks, and campgrounds, barred from most trails to
protect fragile ecosystems and wary wildlife. For a hiker traveling
with a canine companion, that can mean peering longingly down
paths that say no dogs allowed.
In contrast, the 154 National Forests and 20 National
Grasslands — a staggering 193 million acres of public land
— were founded under a different ideal: multiple use. They are
living landscapes where recreation, conservation, and community
all coexist. Here, dogs aren’t bystanders — they’re participants.
America’s National Parks will always be our sacred preserves,
but the National Forests are our everyday wilderness — vast,
welcoming, and alive. They are the beating green heart of the
nation, a place where humans and hounds alike can rediscover
that simple, ancient truth: we belong to the land, and it belongs to
us.
Doggie dream vacations.