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Ernie Punkin
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 Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:56 pm Post subject: DOGS & PARKS |
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OMG those pix (all 20+ pages) are so precious. All of your doggies are lovely. 
I would like to hear from dog + human travel combos, how that goes when using national parks?
I would like to get a dog, but haven't sorted out logistics. I plan to spend lots of time in Canada and in US National Parks once my bus if out of the shop.
You can't take them on trails in national parks (any longer). Leaving them in a bus, even with windows open is a no-no (at least in warmer weather). Leaving them tied up in a campground unattended = coyote & other critter chow, not to mention easy targets for bad campers with nasty dogs off leash, and probably also "against the law".
When my family traveled in the early 60's in our hand-converted 23 window babes, with 5 kids, 2 adults, and 3 scotty dogs - those were the days - really!
The porcupines, skunks, snakes, and bears found the dogs to be very entertaining.
How do you make national parks travel + pets work for you? Is there a thread on the topic? Couldn't find one.
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DenverB
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I don't often take them with me to national parks/monuments. If I'm doing a Sand Dunes or Estes trip, the dogs usually stay with friends or back at the cabin on Grand Lake with whichever friends stayed back to not go camping. That's not say we haven't had the dogs with us on-leash in estes, but it hampered our hiking. We mostly just hung around the campsite with them on-leash and walked them around town.
National Forests are much better for dog walking. Same with state parks.
The one exception I've made in recent years is to take did take the dogs to dinosaur national monument and left them in the bus while we did a walk around. CAme back the bus (windows open, top up) to people taking pictures.
*edit: while national parks are wonderful, I've found the best places to VW/dog hike are the smaller, less-known forests and state parks. Yellowstone, for example, is beautiful and amazing and filled with people like Times Square in New York for most the summer, whereas playing around in the national forest lands by Leadville in Colorado means you can get out in beautiful country and not see people for days.
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Jennepher 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:00 pm Post subject: Re: DOGS & PARKS |
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| Ernie Punkin wrote: |
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I would like to hear from dog + human travel combos, how that goes when using national parks? ...
How do you make national parks travel + pets work for you? Is there a thread on the topic? Couldn't find one. |
This would work best as a new topic since this is a picture thread.
Either you can start one or I can split this post and any replies into a new thread.
Edit: Per OP request, this has been split into its own thread.
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