Can I Bring My Dogs?

Unfortunately, not to Viking...

We get asked this a lot, and we have given it a lot of thought. In the end, as much as we love dogs, we don't love them on our grooming. Even our own dogs don't get to go out on the trails. We spend a lot of time grooming our trails for skiing, setting tracks and laying down a nice carpet of corduroy. Our experience shows that dogs don't really get all that jazzed about things like tracks. So, they like to run in them, poop in them and generally bung up all that hard work. We don't judge, it's a dog thing.

If you really want to bring your dog skiing, there are trails in the National Forest; you can snowshoe on the Long Trail, or use the West River Trail in South Londonderry. And a reminder from our friends who use these trails: just remember, there is no poop fairy, so it's up to you to pick up poop drops. That's the other thing we find a lot of folks struggle with. It's a thing, and we know it's kind of gross, but it is the right thing to do. 

The Green Mountain National Forest is one of many places you can bring your dogs