One clean answer to a question that's weirdly hard to answer: can I bring my dog to this park, and on which trails?
If you've tried to plan a trip with a dog, you know the drill. The rules are scattered across listicles that never name a trail, and official pages that are accurate but a pain to scan. The Park Service is famously strict, state parks are usually open, national forests are somewhere in between, and none of it lives in one place.
TrailPaws puts it in one place. One page per park, the same format every time: can dogs come, on which trails, the leash rule, the closures, and where dogs are banned. When the answer is no, we point you to the nearest land where you can actually hike with your dog.
Every page links to the official agency source and shows the date we last checked it. See the methodology for exactly how the data is built and kept current.