SOBO bypassing SMNP with dogs

[madeformisery]

I'm hiking sobo on the at soon and was wondering if anyone knew how I could bypass SMNP cause they don't allow dogs. I do not want to kennel or shuttle my dog. Can I get some info on how to bypass the smokies please

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[Slo-go'en]

A kennel or shuttle is your only real option. You could try to hitch hike around (but it's a long way around, look at a map). There is no practical way to hike around the park, that would be about a 150 mile road walk.

[Gambit McCrae]

Option 1- Shuttle you and dog around the park
Option 2- I see your from Va, Could you have anyone close to the park that could watch your dog while your in the park?
Option 3-Kennel Dog (its expensive in the area)

[wannahike]

JUST WOW you really just told someone to lie, I hope you don't have kids.\

"Option 4 could you possibly use your dog for comfort due to PTSD? Service dogs are allowed in the park" Gambit McCrae

https://adata.org/learn-about-ada
A service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Tasks performed can include, among other things, pulling a wheelchair, retrieving dropped items, alerting a person to a sound, reminding a person to take medication, or pressing an elevator button.


Emotional support animals, comfort animals, and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not considered service animals either. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the individual’s disability. It does not matter if a person has a note from a doctor that states that the person has a disability and needs to have the animal for emotional support. A doctor’s letter does not turn an animal into a service animal.

[Gambit McCrae]

I wasn't telling him to lie, I was under the impression that PTSD fell under the acceptable list of service dogs.
I was trying to be respectful in case the OP was using the animal as a service provider. You need to chill out
WannaHike sounds like a dramagirl!!

[Gambit McCrae]

I wasn't telling him to lie, I was under the impression that PTSD fell under the acceptable list of service dogs.
I was trying to be respectful in case the OP was using the animal as a service provider. You need to chill out
WannaHike sounds like a dramagirl!!

Nope I was right, service dogs are allowed. I hope you don't have kids....

Service dogs in the smokies

[gpburdelljr]

The OP never even hinted at having PTSD.

[wannahike]

Well, maybe you just misread the post, they asked how to get around the park not how to get around the park regulations.
And service dogs are allowed in the park, I didn't say that they weren't but emotional support dogs are not service dogs under the Americans with Disabilities act.
And posts here on White Blaze don't trump the actual law.

[squeezebox]

Are dogs also banned in the tourist parts of the Smokies? Or is the dog ban only for the back woods?

[Gambit McCrae]

Dogs are allowed on 2 short trails in the park, and on concrete surfaces so to speak.

[madeformisery]

A kennel or shuttle is your only real option. You could try to hitch hike around (but it's a long way around, look at a map). There is no practical way to hike around the park, that would be about a 150 mile road walk.

Kenneling or shuttling will not be an option because all our funds are for resupply. 150 miles of road walk sounds like our only legal option. Are there regulations on pitching a tent off the roadway? Not right on the side of the road but like off the road a ways in the woods or something?

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[Gambit McCrae]

You will be able to hitch. When are you planning to be there?

[madeformisery]

You will be able to hitch. When are you planning to be there?

Hopefully around the second week of October. My wife, myself, and our two 10 month old male Shepard/huskie mix will be departing Waynesboro va around September 20th

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[WingedMonkey]

I'm hiking sobo on the at soon and was wondering if anyone knew how I could bypass SMNP cause they don't allow dogs. I do not want to kennel or shuttle my dog. Can I get some info on how to bypass the smokies please

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Southbound from where? and when?

[madeformisery]

Southbound from where? and when?

Waynesboro va around Sept 20.

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[HooKooDooKu]

Are dogs also banned in the tourist parts of the Smokies? Or is the dog ban only for the back woods?

GSMNP Pet Regulations
It basically breaks down to dogs ON A LEASH are permitted in front country areas but not back country areas. There are two hiking trails that are an exception:
Gatlinburg Trail (trail between Gatlinburg and Sugarland Visitor's Center),
Oconaluftee River Trail (trail between Cherokee and Oconaluftee Visitor's Center)

[tacodog]

I'm hiking sobo on the at soon and was wondering if anyone knew how I could bypass SMNP cause they don't allow dogs. I do not want to kennel or shuttle my dog. Can I get some info on how to bypass the smokies please

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Why not take the BMT?

[TNhiker]

Why not take the BMT?

the BMT also goes through the Park...............

[madeformisery]

the BMT also goes through the Park...............

So dogs are allowed on that trail?

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[TNhiker]

So dogs are allowed on that trail?

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no............

what im saying is since the AT goes through the Park and the OP can't take a dog through on that trail, and the suggestion was to take the BMT instead, but if the BMT also goes through the Park, it would make sense that dogs are not allowed on that trail as well............

that's the part of the BMT that goes through the Park............rest of trail Im not sure of except in national forest parts, dogs are allowed.............