We are thinking of taking our 1 year old Bernese Mountain Dog on our month long family road trip this year. We live in PA and were thinking of the Grand Canyon area, but I don't know how dog friendly it would be. We have a teenage daughter that will be traveling with us. We are totally open to our destination now. We like to sight see and are not into sitting around at campgrounds. Can anyone offer advice of pet friendly road trips? Also, did you leave your dog in the rv when you couldn't take them on an excursion. Thanks for your help!Let me clarify my question...We spend a lot of weekends camping locally in different spots and we take the dog with us. She loves to rv! But we typically don't take a dog on our long multi-state summer road trips. Our last big trip was out to Tetons/Yellowstone/Glacier and they weren't dog friendly, so our beloved boy stayed home. He has since passed and we now have a 1 yr old female. We worry that she wont be able to handle being away from us for 3+ weeks, so we want to alter our travel plans. We are looking for suggestions as to places to visit that are more dog friendly from people who have traveled with dogs. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Many RVers take dogs and sometimes several but we think they're nuts. It really can complicate the traveling, many Parks do not allow dogs on trails and what do you do with them while you spend a day sightseeing, hiking, etc. It can also reduce the number of sites you are allowed to use. I could go on and on but I understand (not agree) that many of you treat them like they are grandchildren or kids.

Many National Parks do not allow you to take dogs on their trails. You could leave your pet in your RV if you have the capability to run you A/C.

Have always traveled with 1-2 dogs and have never had a problem. Although they can't accompany you on trails in the national parks, we just walked them in the campgrounds and parking lots. They loved it. And so did we.

Take the dog! I have twice as much fun camping when I take the dogs and they have ten more times fun than I do. Guess I'm just nuts, but at least I'm not anal.

Some of us are RV'ers because of our pets.I'm not really clear on what you mean by a pet friendly road trip. As far as I'm concerned, all trips are pet friendly or they just don't happen. Because we don't leave home w/o our dogs. We have never found having them along to be a problem at all. In all the years we've been RV'ing we've encountered exactly one campground that didn't allow pets. So it's not exactly a huge issue. As others have said, national parks usually have pet restrictions, so that's something you'll need to consider. When we visit national parks we typically stay at a campground close to but outside of the park and do half day visits. If we're going to be gone for longer than five or six hours and the weather is nice we bring the dogs with us. If not, they don't mind staying in the comfort of the RV any more than they mind hanging out at our house.

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downtheroad
Explorer
Jan 14, 2014
In 25 years of RV'ing coast to coast and then some, we have never taken a trip without our dog.

Just go to any campground. Most likely at least half of the campers will have a dog.
MetalGator
Nomad
Jan 14, 2014
We always take our dogs with us, if we won't be away from the RV too long. If there is going to be a trip where we will be gone from the trailer all day, I will leave the dogs at home. I have left them in the TT for 5 hours or so but don't feel comfortable leaving them any longer than that. I have a temperature monitor that emails me every 15 minutes (to my smart phone)the temp inside the trailer so I can make sure it doesn't get to hot (in case the A/C stops working, power outage, etc).
Pawz4me
Explorer
Jan 14, 2014
Some of us are RV'ers because of our pets.

I'm not really clear on what you mean by a pet friendly road trip. As far as I'm concerned, all trips are pet friendly or they just don't happen. Because we don't leave home w/o our dogs. We have never found having them along to be a problem at all. In all the years we've been RV'ing we've encountered exactly one campground that didn't allow pets. So it's not exactly a huge issue. As others have said, national parks usually have pet restrictions, so that's something you'll need to consider. When we visit national parks we typically stay at a campground close to but outside of the park and do half day visits. If we're going to be gone for longer than five or six hours and the weather is nice we bring the dogs with us. If not, they don't mind staying in the comfort of the RV any more than they mind hanging out at our house.
Sloop_Smitten
Explorer
Jan 14, 2014
Take the dog! I have twice as much fun camping when I take the dogs and they have ten more times fun than I do. Guess I'm just nuts, but at least I'm not anal.
frmAloha
Explorer
Jan 14, 2014
Have always traveled with 1-2 dogs and have never had a problem. Although they can't accompany you on trails in the national parks, we just walked them in the campgrounds and parking lots. They loved it. And so did we.
1mtnman
Explorer II
Jan 14, 2014
Many National Parks do not allow you to take dogs on their trails. You could leave your pet in your RV if you have the capability to run you
A/C.
Jayco-noslide
Explorer
Jan 14, 2014
Many RVers take dogs and sometimes several but we think they're nuts. It really can complicate the traveling, many Parks do not allow dogs on trails and what do you do with them while you spend a day sightseeing, hiking, etc. It can also reduce the number of sites you are allowed to use. I could go on and on but I understand (not agree) that many of you treat them like they are grandchildren or kids.

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