Product Description

Have you ever considered how far you walk with your dog? If you walk just 15 minutes a day you will have walked far enough in your dog's lifetime to cross the United States. With all that walking ahead of you, aren't you ready for a new place to take a hike with your dog? Doggin' The Mid-Atlantic explores the area's top trails with your best friend in mind. This guide for the active dog owner rates and evaluates 400 regional parks that welcome dogs. No Dogs! Is there any more dispiriting day for a dog owner than driving to a new park and encountering the dreaded "No Dogs" sign? Doggin' The Mid-Atlantic tells you the parks that don't welcome dogs. Also packed inside these 464 pages are... ...regulations for over 300 campgrounds for dogs ...tips on outfitting your dog for a hike ...tips on practicing low impact hiking with your dog ...and much more. The Middle Atlantic states are a great place to hike with your dog. Within a short drive you can be scaling mountains that leave your dog panting, exploring impossibly green glens that will set tails to wagging, walk on some of the most historic grounds in America or circling lakes for miles where swim-loving dogs never sight of the water. While walking the dog, author Doug Gelbert also brings along generous helpings of local history, botany, geology, architecture and more. What makes a great place to take your dog hiking? Well, how about a paw-friendly surface to trot on? Grass and sandy dirt are a lot more appealing than asphalt and rocks. A variety of hikes is always good - long ones for athletic dogs and short ones for the less adventurous canine. Dogs always enjoy a refreshing place to swim as well. For tail-friendly parks our guides describe the trail options for your dog, evaluate park traffic from other users, tell you whether you will need a guide dog to find your way around and, of course, tell you how to get to the park. Doggin' The Mid-Atlantic is whimsically illustrated with 18 original drawings by An

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #411884 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-11
• Released on: 2007-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 464 pages

About the Author
Doug Gelbert is the author of 26 books including, So Who The Heck Was Oscar Mayer?, You Can Be A National Champion, and Revolutionary War Sites, Memorials and Collections and the Canine Hiker's Bible. He is the creator and publisher of the DOGGIN AMERICA series of guidebooks to hiking with your dog. To date similar books have been published for Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia and others. A member of the Dog Writer's Association of America, he is a columnist for Fido Friendly magazine and has written for many dog publications.

Customer Reviews

Great Book - simple and yet, full of information
This book is excellent for dog owners and people who are looking for a great trail or park to explore in NJ, PA, DE, MD and NOVA area. This book organizes the parks by State. Each park is rated with the number of puppy paws with 4 paws being the highest. At the beginning of the book, it includes some tips on traveling/hiking with your dog and what to look for as well as parks where no dogs are allowed. It even has a small section on campgrounds.

Each park is a page long, and it contains information on the park (location, directions, phone number, web address, etc...); a description of the park; a summary of the trails and info for the dog; and a little history of the park. Short, brief and simple. Love it.

This is definitely a book to add to your collection, if you have a dog and enjoy exploring with your dog.