Saguaro National Park

The Sky Island Scenic Byway welcomes pets. The only paved path to Mount Lemmon, the highest point in the Santa Catalina Range, is through this picturesque road. This meandering beautiful road, also known as the Mount Lemmon Highway and Catalina Highway Scenic Drive, is one of the most picturesque in the southwest and also one of the most diverse in a short distance. It starts in the desert and ends in the high forest, and it's only 27 miles long. As you and your dog hike high into the rocky environs, you will be rewarded with breathtaking vistas.

This one-acre facility, named after Ivan, a TPD police dog who died in the line of duty, has two distinct areas for large and small dogs. The area is enclosed and features a concrete inner walking path, dog-friendly drinking fountains, benches, trees and bushes, landscape irrigation, decomposed granite, boulders, and solar lighting.

Coronado State Park's Agua Caliente Hill Path #46 is a 9.25-mile (round-trip) moderately difficult trail (lots of climbing). This trail is too hot to hike in the summer, but it's ideal for a cold day. The route provides stunning views of the city. Although there is water at Cat Track Tank (1.6 miles), it is advised to bring plenty for you and your dog.

This enclosed dog park with doggy water fountains, picnic tables, and a waste station will thank you for allowing your dog to play off-leash. There are separate gated spaces for little and large dogs in this 38,000 square foot gravel-surfaced park; there is no turf.

The Roy P. Drachman Agua Caliente Regional Park is a one-of-a-kind 101-acre park with a perennial warm spring and pond that is home to a diverse array of plants and animals. Picnic in the shade of mature palm trees and native mesquite trees or stroll the network of accessible paved and gravel trails with interpretive signage explaining the geology and history of the warm spring and the natural and human history of the place.

A big, designated off-leash dog park at Morris K. Udall Park Park offers separate areas for large and small dogs, both of which are fully gated. The park also offers a lighted section as well as drinking stations for both humans and dogs.