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ToddD
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Jan 10, 2020

Pets and National Parks

I'd have posted this in the Pets forum, but it's a ghost town over there.

We're doing an 8 week trip this year with our 5er, hitting a bunch of National Parks along the way.

My understanding is that, except for some narrow restrictions, like a few feet from roadways, pets are not permitted in National Parks.

Most of the parks we are hitting that's not a problem, we can leave the pooch at the camper for 5-6 hours while we go do sightseeing with the truck.

But at the big parks, like Yellowstone, we might need to be gone more than 8 hours per day to account for the potential travel times just to get to the sights.

What do people normally do in those situations?

Todd
  • In the big parks either take the dog or cut your day shorter - I cut the day shorter because my dog barked at all the buffalo's

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