Scotts Bluff National Monument
Scotts Bluff National Monument is a pet friendly place to take a break during your road trip across Nebraska. All trails and overlooks are pet friendly.
National Park Dogs talks about how pet friendly our National Parks, Monuments and other federal lands are or aren’t. A few parks do not allow dogs at all while most parks have different amounts of restrictions.
To provide a quick reference for park pet friendliness, I have devised a paw-rating system. One paw means pets are only allowed on roads or paved areas and not left unattended in vehicles. Two paws mean pets must be within 100 feet of roads and there is one pet friendly trail. A three paw park has two or more pet friendly trails. The most pet friendly parks get a four paw rating, theses parks have few limiting restrictions. When travelling to any National Park, you will need leash and cleaned up after your pet.
Blog posts in National Park Dogs give more details about each park we have traveled to with our Great Danes. I have also included an info-graphic for quick reference and maps to dog friendly trails when available.
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Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park changed its pet policy This post has been updated from its original form and for a good reason. My paw rating for Bryce went from a…
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado gets a 3-paw park rating A long name for a park with a very deep canyon, over 2700 feet deep. The…
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Not pet friendly While the Badlands National Park is a beautiful park that you should not miss visiting, it is not overly dog friendly and gets only a 1 paw-rating.…