Bruno enjoys the outdoors as much as we do, and we won’t visit a nature reserve or walk a trail without him.  So, here’s our on-going “study” of outdoor museums, nature reserves, and parks that allow or don’t allow pets.  It would be so nice if all of them had a reasonable dog policy, i.e. allow dogs but require them leashed and the owners to pick up after them.

Dog-friendly?

• Blithewold Mansion, Gardens, and Arboretum (http://www.blithewold.org/) — NO
•    Borderland State Park (http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/borderland/) — YES
• Canterbury Shaker Village (http://www.shakers.org/) — NO
•     DeCordova Museum (http://www.decordova.org) — YES   
  
•     Fruitlands Museum (http://www.fruitlands.org) — YES
  
• Mass Audubon, all parks (http://www.massaudubon.org) — NO
•     Minute Man National Historical Park (http://www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm) — YES
•     Mystic Seaport, Mystic (http://www.mysticseaport.org) — YES
  
• Old Sturbridge Village (http://www.osv.org) — NO
•    Trustees of Reservations (http://www.thetrustees.org) — YES
• Walden Pond State Reservation (http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/walden/) — NO