Visiting National Parks with dog
Hello. We are planning a Fall trip to some southwest national parks (Bryce, Zion, Arches, Mesa Verde) and are considering bringing our 13 YO dog. We'd like to hike somewhat in these areas and wonder...
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As others have said - in Nat'l Parks, your dogs get to explore the sidewalks, parking lots, and road edges. We still bring ours - if there's something that must be photographed, then one stays with the dogs while the other hikes.
We either vacation in the spring, or after the kids are back in school, so the temps have never really been worrisome, if we have to leave them in the vehicle while we eat at a restaurant, for example.
For us, the comfort of knowing that our dogs are with us and having fun (hey - THEY don't know what they're missing - parking lots are LOADED with "interesting smells") far outweigh anything we might miss because we couldn't hike with them.
We either vacation in the spring, or after the kids are back in school, so the temps have never really been worrisome, if we have to leave them in the vehicle while we eat at a restaurant, for example.
For us, the comfort of knowing that our dogs are with us and having fun (hey - THEY don't know what they're missing - parking lots are LOADED with "interesting smells") far outweigh anything we might miss because we couldn't hike with them.
