These national parks are perfect for your pooch to explore! Just remember to keep an eye out for him and to steer clear from wild animals! LOL! Plan your next national park visit with your pooch! He'll appreciate it!
Happy 100th Anniversary, National Park Service! Find out where you can bring your pup, and when you should leave them with a trusted sitter.
Dog Friendliness Scale
🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶 = Extremely dog friendly – bring your pup along for a full day of fun.
🐶🐶🐶🐶= Very dog friendly – you and your pup can enjoy the park with some restrictions.
🐶🐶🐶= Somewhat dog friendly
🐶🐶= You might want to leave the pup at home or with a sitter
Shenandoah National Park
State: Virginia
Established: 1935
Approximate # of visitors per year: 1,000,000+
Fun Fact: There are 862 species of wildflowers found in the park.
Dog friendliness: 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶
Cuyahoga Valley National Park
State: Ohio
Established: 2000
Approximate # of visitors per year: 2,500,000
Fun fact: The Ohio and Erie canal, which runs through the park, was constructed by human labor in the early 1800s — before the invention of dump trucks or excavators.
Dog friendliness: 🐶🐶🐶🐶
Acadia National Park
State: Maine
Established: 1916
Approximate # of visitors per year: 2,225,000+
Fun Fact: Swimmers beware. The water temperature is usually around 55 degrees, even in the height of summer!
Dog friendliness: 🐶🐶🐶🐶
Grand Canyon National Park
State: Arizona
Established: 1919
Approximate # of visitors per year: 5,000,000
Fun Fact: In the deepest part of the Canyon, you can find rocks that are 1.8 billion years old.
Dog friendliness: 🐶🐶🐶
Zion National Park
State: Utah
Established: 1909
Approximate # of visitors per year: 2,500,000+
Fun Fact: About 7,000 years ago there was a rock slide that created a 3-mile long and 350-feet-deep lake, Sentinel Lake. The lake has since dissipated but studies suggest it lasted for 700 years.
Dog friendliness: 🐶🐶🐶
Yosemite National Park
State: California
Established: 1890
Approximate # of visitors per year: 3,700,000
Fun fact: Yosemite is home to five of the world’s 10 highest waterfalls.
Dog friendliness: 🐶🐶🐶
Great Smoky Mountains
State: Tennessee
Established: 1934
Approximate # of visitors per year: 9,500,000
Fun fact: This is the most visited National Park in the country!
Dog friendliness: 🐶🐶
Looks like you've got plenty of national parks to choose from! Now your pooch won't have to miss out on all the nature and fun because you'll be able to bring him along!
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