Every year an estimated 15 million people travel with their dogs. In recent years, mercifully, it has become much easier to do so with more and more lodging facilities becoming pet-friendly. But what happens when you actually want to leave the hotel room with your dog?
Our national parks are notoriously unfriendly to dogs. Of the more than 1,500 public beaches in the United States more than half don’t allow dogs at all and most of the rest have some sort of restrictions. But there are rewarding outdoor vacations to be had out there that can include your dog.
DOGGIN’ AMERICA: 100 IDEAS FOR GREAT OUTDOOR VACATIONS TO TAKE WITH YOUR DOG (Cruden Bay Books; ISBN- 9780981534688; 360 pages; $19.95) is not about traveling with your dog to tiny, fenced in dog parks or disappearing into the wilderness; it is about places you want to see, and taking your dog to share your fun.
Where can your dog walk across the Mississippi River without getting her tummy wet? (page 153)
Where can your dog hike into America’s first sunrise? (page 300)
Where can your dog play on the highest sand dunes in America? (page 230)
Author Doug Gelbert describes more than 500 tail-friendly destinations for DOGGIN’ AMERICA: 100 IDEAS FOR GREAT OUTDOOR VACATIONS TO TAKE WITH YOUR DOG. Gelbert has written over 30 books including The Canine Hiker’s Bible and guides to the Civil War and American Revolution.
While traveling with the dog, Gelbert also brings along generous helpings of local history, botany, geology, architecture and more. So what are you waiting for? So, plan that next vacation with your dog, grab that leash and get going!
Your dog will want to romp across the longest cultivated farm in North America (page 253), trot across the top of the country’s largest underwater cave system (page 234), roll around in the front yard of America’s largest house (page 247)...
