Dog Boarding & Daycare
The complete & accurate map of dog boarding & daycare in America
Overnight boarding and daytime daycare in one directory — with nightly rates, hours, and state license records wherever we've confirmed them. A clean, deduplicated dataset, re-verified every month.
The national picture
- 23,975
- facilities
- 51
- states
- 1,056
- with real rates
- 647
- state-licensed
median $45/night
matched to state records
Pl. 02 — The difference
What makes this one different
Most boarding directories list scraped, rate-free, often-stale data. We lead with two things they don't have.
Real nightly rates
1,056 facilities carry a confirmed boarding or daycare rate, pulled from the business's own published pricing — not an estimate. Where a rate isn't confirmed, the listing says “call to confirm” instead. We publish the state-by-state analysis in our boarding price study.
State license records
647 listings are matched against state kennel-licensing registries, on top of a deduplicated dataset we own and re-verify every month — sourced from open map data, not a one-time scrape.
Pl. 03 — The atlas
Browse by state
51 states · 8,779 cities · sorted by number of facilities.
- Texas1841
- California1812
- Florida1361
- New York1151
- Pennsylvania1085
- Ohio995
- Illinois888
- North Carolina873
- Michigan837
- Georgia792
- Washington730
- Wisconsin700
- Massachusetts639
- Virginia615
- Minnesota609
- Tennessee533
- Missouri518
- Indiana513
- South Carolina507
- Colorado506
- New Jersey466
- Arizona393
- Oregon373
- Maryland364
- Alabama362
- Iowa353
- Louisiana339
- Kentucky335
- Oklahoma275
- Arkansas274
- Kansas271
- Connecticut255
- Maine251
- New Hampshire208
- Mississippi189
- Idaho176
- Montana167
- Utah156
- Nevada150
- New Mexico141
- West Virginia139
- Nebraska118
- South Dakota114
- Vermont110
- Alaska106
- North Dakota91
- Rhode Island84
- Delaware71
- Wyoming64
- Hawaii59
- District of Columbia16
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
How much does dog boarding cost?
Boarding is priced per night, and rates vary widely by region and by what's included (private suite vs. standard run, playtime, walks). Across the facilities in our directory that publish a rate, the median is $45 per night. 1,056 of the 23,975 facilities here list a confirmed rate; for the rest, the listing says "call to confirm" instead of guessing.
What's the difference between dog boarding and dog daycare?
Boarding is overnight care — your dog stays at the facility while you're away. Daycare is daytime-only care, typically billed per day or in package form. Many facilities offer both, so we list them in one directory and tag each listing with the services it offers.
Are boarding facilities licensed?
It depends on the state — roughly half of US states license boarding and daycare facilities through their agriculture or animal-services agency; the rest don't regulate them at all. We've matched 647 listings against state license records and mark those with a state-licensed badge. No badge doesn't mean a problem: in unregulated states there's simply no register to check.
How is this directory kept accurate?
Every listing is sourced from open map data, deduplicated across sources, and re-verified every month. We layer on nightly rates, hours, amenities, and state license records where we can confirm them — and where we can't, the listing says so rather than filling the gap with a guess.