Is Your Dog Home Alone?
Your Dog Needs A Vacation Too ! Bring Them To The Smoky Mountains
Are you coming to the Smoky Mountains this year for a vacation? We sure hope so, don’t leave your dogs at home. They would love to visit Pigeon Forge,
Gatlinburg and the Sevierville area with you.
Dogs are not allowed on most of the Great Smoky Mountain
National Park trails but they are welcome in the picnic areas and parking lots
in the Park. They also can walk on a
leash with you on the Gatlinburg Trail – a 1.9 mile walk from the Sugarland
Visitor Center to just outside of Gatlinburg, TN and on the Oconaluftee River
Trail - 1.5 mile trail from the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Cherokee, NC. Of
course, you pets must be well-behaved, kept on a leash and you must always
clean up after them.
Dogs
are welcome at Patriot Park in Pigeon Forge. The park is just
off the Parkway near light #7 in Pigeon Forge. This beautiful, well kept park
is a great place to walk your dogs with views of the river.
See
our Pet Friendly cabins
in Wears Valley – just a short drive from Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg
or Townsend. There’s a large, grassy common area with picnic tables and a small
catch and release fishing pond just a short distance from the cabins where your
dog can play(on a leash).
You
might enjoy the walk down the hill from the Glimpse
of Heaven cabin to the pond but if you are anything like me, I am
too “out of shape” to trudge back up the hill ! But if you are in for a challenge, go for it
! You will really enjoy the hot tub
after a little exercise…
Don’t
leave your sweet dog at home when you leave for vacation, bring ‘em to the
Smoky Mountains. They will love you for it !
