Doggin' ' the big city

If you see David Letterman at all in the fall, I can guarantee that you say it hear, this is the best time of year to visit New York City. He says it each year about the weather of autumn in New York City. So what is, if you want to take a trip to New York or other large cities of the Northeast, which are in their most beautiful – and want to... take your active dog

BOSTON

Boston common is the oldest public park in the country, "Cow pastures and training field" for sharing created in 1634. Cattle grazed here for 200 years, and can look up every now and then to see that the hang occasional public, which was held in the joint. The park covers approximately 50 hectares and is the anchor for the Emerald Necklace, a system of connected parks, to visit many of the parts of Boston. Dogs are welcome on Boston common, and can even run off leash from 5-07 and 5-19

Park Street, beacon, Charles, Boylston and Tremont borders

NEW YORK CITY

Chances are your dog to the most famous National Park in Midtown Manhattan to enjoy as much as you are. Dogs are not allowed (Elm include Islands at the Mall, sheep meadow, East green or strawberry fields to the main areas of the banned) can be anywhere but go off leash before 09 where allowed. Keep an eye for horses and roads to cross the Park. Bring a bowl of water on hot days - the only current well equipped for dogs is at the entrance to the East 90th Street. Architect Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed to keep the Park in a naturalistic setting in New York City, you need to lose paths on forest.

of 59th 110. streets and Fifth Avenue, Central Park West

PHILADELPHIA

Fairmount Park is that started largest contiguous urban landscape park in the world with nearly 9,000 hectares with only 5 hectares in 1812. It is home to an estimated 2,500,000 trees bucolic. The backbone of the Park is the forbidden drive so named when it was closed to automobiles in the 1920s. The 7-mile paved path of travel along the Wissahickon Creek into the Schuylkill River; Canine hikes can be shortened by several bridges over the Wissahickon. There is also a single track trails, many blaze heavily by the Wissahickon Gorge climbing.

Andorra visitor center is Avenue and Germantown Avenue at the North-Western Avenue between Ridge

BALTIMORE

The city of Baltimore paid $475,000 of the Rogers family estate in 1860 the jewel of the park system, Druid Park to create. Colonel Nicholas Rogers designed his property on a pastoral English park and the town continued the theme with picnic pavilions, grassy promenades, statues and fountains. A massive Tuscan Doric entrance was built in 1868 sandstone at a price of $24,000 Nova Scotia and Druid Lake was built in 1871 after the largest earthen dam in America for drinking water. Today, the historical park covers 600 hectares with winding roads and green grass for dogs visitors.

on Druid Park Lake drive on Pennsylvania Avenue, Eutaw place or Mount Royal terrace

WASHINGTON DC

Earned in the words of Calvin Coolidge "every man who doesn't like dogs and want to, that they not to in the White House." On the other side of the road, on the National Mall, dogs are not only welcome, but often celebrated. The final of the canine Frisbee Disc Championships were traditionally performed on the dog-friendly Mall. The patchy grass squares make fun of place to the play with your dog or the Mall is the setting for a people watching hike of nearly two miles from the capital to the feet of the Abraham Lincoln dogs.

Doug Gelbert is author of more than 20 books, including the canine Hiker?s Bible. To his free newsletter on hiking with your dog, subscribe and get a copy of the rules for dogs in 100 of the most popular National Park Service countries, in the warmer months, which he leads hikes for hikewithyourdog.com tours canine, dogs and people on hiking adventure, visit http://www.hikewithyourdog.com/. Tours of excursions up to several days exploring, visit parks, historic sites and beaches.