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Active.com has developed a new camping trip planner tool to connect nature lovers with the great outdoors. Users can plan a road trip by plotting their route on a map and overlaying it with all nearby state, federal and private campgrounds in the Active.com directory. Campgrounds can be filtered by location, facilities, nearby activities and other criteria. Within the camping planning tool, users can check the availability of camp sites, select and add them to their planned route, and make reservations via a link to Active.com sister media property, ReserveAmerica.com. Users can print their trip itinerary and driving directions as well as share their trip details with friends and family via Facebook and Twitter.

Campers wanting to go off the beaten path or catch some wildlife in action this summer can take advantage of a new list of “Hidden Gems” State campgrounds published in early summer.

Amy and Rod Burkert hopped in their tricked-out Winnebago this weekend and set out with their two best friends in search of the country’s best vacation spots – for people with pets.

The couple’s traveling companions are Ty, a 5-year-old Shar-Pei, and Buster, a 2-year-old German shepherd. And trying to find hotels to accommodate them and their dogs on a fishing trip to Canada two years ago led to a new career path and way of life for the Foster Township couple.

“We sat down that July and started to make travel plans and determined we needed to stay in seven different hotels on our circular road trip. It took me two full days to find the seven hotels we would stay in because of the way the Web sites were,” Amy said.

Web sites that advertised hotels as “pet friendly” didn’t necessarily indicate if they charged extra for pets, if there were weight or breed restrictions or if they allowed two dogs in one room.

“I kept saying to Rod, ‘This is crazy. People aren’t going to take the time to do this. They’ll just take their pet to a kennel because it’s just not easy enough to plan a trip with their pets.’ So, we got home, looked at other Web sites, did more research on what was out there for pet friendliness and we just decided we were going to make it easier for people to travel with their pets,” Amy said.

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