The Best For Your Best Friend
Expert supervision, individualized play, and comfort you can trust.
Boarding
Industry-leading boarding that blends enrichment, comfort, and expert care so dogs thrive while you’re away.
Boarding
What Sets Us Apart
We designed K9cation around dogs that are members of their families requiring expert care and luxury spaces, not cages, concrete runs, or one-size-fits-all care. Set on a wide-open ranch environment, our boarding experience prioritizes movement, sunshine, fresh air, and thoughtful rest, all guided by experienced professionals who understand canine behavior.
Dogs enjoy:
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Acres of outdoor play space, not small indoor rooms (climate controlled play as well)
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Curated play groups based on size, energy, and play style
Climate-controlled comfort for year-round care
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Multiple suite options, including private courtyards and homestyle settings
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Enrichment, training, and customized add-ons that support both mental and physical well-being
Most importantly, dogs are supervised by a team trained to read body language, manage group dynamics, and adjust care based on each dog’s needs, not a rigid schedule.
The result: Happier dogs, safer play, and peace of mind for pet parents.
Daycare
Calm, supervised play your dog actually enjoys.
Daycare at K9cation offers thoughtfully supervised, play-forward days balanced with enrichment, rest, and expert care so dogs stay happy, regulated, and thriving.
A True Boarding & Daycare Vacation
Campers Love Our Optional Add On Amentities For Boarding & Daycare
Every K9cation stay includes space to play, time to relax, and expert care, with the option to customize your dog’s experience.
Just like people add experiences to their vacations, dogs thrive when their stay includes more than play and rest.
At K9cation, campers can enjoy optional, experience-based activities designed to engage instincts, build confidence, and create joy. From agility and barn hunt to stock dog herding and sport foundations, dogs have options to participate in enriching experiences rarely available in traditional boarding environments.
Set across over 45 acres of ranch property and an additional 6-acre training campus, our state-of-the-art training facilities allow dogs to explore, learn, and move in ways other facilities simply can’t replicate. It’s not just a place to stay, it’s a destination built for dogs.
Every experience at K9cation can be enjoyed purely for fun, or developed into something more. Dogs may participate in activities simply for enrichment and joy, or progress into structured sport training designed to build skills, confidence, and clear communication. For those who thrive on learning, training can advance all the way through competition-level preparation with our experienced handlers.
Along the way, you’ll stay connected to your dog’s journey. Photos from activities are shared on our Facebook page, and training participants receive written progress reports through our app, allowing you to track skill development, preferences, and personalized homework to support future visits.
Vacation Amenities For Campers
Just like vacations come with memorable meals, K9cation campers can enjoy thoughtfully curated treats designed to delight dogs. We offer a rotating selection of dog-favorite treats made with natural, dog-safe ingredients, carefully chosen for quality and enjoyment. Throughout the year, we also feature seasonal favorites, including holiday sampler plates on Thanksgiving and Christmas, with real turkey breast, sweet potatoes, green beans, and other wholesome ingredients. It’s one more way we turn each stay into a truly special experience.
🦴 Gourmet Treats & Extras
A True Gift For Your Best Friend
Campers enjoy a wide range of optional enrichment activities designed to engage natural instincts, build confidence, and create joy. From UTV adventure runs, swimming lessons, dock diving, paddle boarding, to farm walks where dogs safely visit livestock, agility, farmyard rat scent games, and stock dog working, our activities go far beyond what traditional facilities can offer. All experiences are thoughtfully supervised and designed around how dogs actually learn, perceive, move, and relax.
🐾 Activities & Enrichment
(Our Most Popular)
Everyday skills that make life with your dog easier.
Our manners-based training sessions focus on real-world behaviors that matter most at home. Camper training may include leash walking, coming when called, polite greetings, doorway manners, place work, and calm behavior around distractions. Sessions are tailored to your dog’s ability level and are designed to build clarity, confidence, and reliability through positive, consistent communication.
🎓 Training Options
Comfort-Focused Care To Help Dogs Look And Feel Their Best.
Our salon services include baths, brush-outs, nail trims, and gentle grooming designed to support comfort and relaxation during your dog’s stay. Whether preparing for pickup or simply enjoying a little extra care, our approach prioritizes calm handling and your dog’s well-being.
✂️ Salon & Care Services
Training Options To Fit Every Dog & Family
Short, focused sessions added to daycare or boarding days. Camper Training Sessions are perfect for dogs who want a little extra learning during their stay. These single, focused training sessions are added to your dog’s daycare or boarding day and work on skills that support good manners, confidence, and everyday reliability. It’s an easy way to reinforce training while your dog is already here having fun. Training can be for a variety of skills such as leash walking, coming when called to agility or scent work sessions that can be added for fun or training to grow in skillset.
Camper Training Sessions (Boarding & Daycare)
Immersive weekday training with weekend home integration. K9cation’s Board & Train program is built for real families and real life. Our proprietary approach allows your dog to train with us during the week, then go home on weekends, with dedicated Friday sessions focused on coaching you. As your dog’s skills grow, so do yours ensuring smoother transfer of training and better long-term success. We know most families don’t want to be separated from their dogs for weeks at a time and better results happen when everyone learns together.
Board & Train Packages
(Weekday Training + Weekend Home Transfer)
Private sessions provide personalized, one-on-one training tailored to you and your dog(s) and family members. These sessions are ideal for addressing specific goals or challenges and are designed to fit your lifestyle. You’ll work directly with a trainer to build clear communication, confidence, and consistency that lasts beyond the session.
Private Sessions
Group classes combine structured training with real-world distractions. In a supportive, instructor-led environment, dogs learn alongside others while building focus, social skills, and reliability. Classes are thoughtfully designed to be engaging, educational, and fun for both dogs and their people.
Group Classes
New Customers
Account Setup & Your First Visit - Start Here
We're so excited to meet you! To setup a tour, schedule your first visit, or book your dog's first play or stay with us, follow these steps:
Step 1: Create Your Account:
Create an account with us, upload your vaccine records, sign your agreements, add your credit card information, and include information about your dog and photo if possible. (You can download our app on your Phone: Paw Partner). Set your preferred K9cation location as either Hudson/Brighton or Fort Lupton/Firestone. (You can still book at both, but one will be your primary location.
Step 2: Accept Appointment Reminders & Updates:
Make sure you accept our text and email updates as this is how you will get important reminders and updates about your reservations, including confirmations.
Step 3: Booking Your First Visit or Tour:
Get a price quote, schedule a tour, customize your dog's stay amenities, and check our availability. You can schedule your dog from our app using your phone or computer, or contact us for help with all your scheduling needs. *We recommend calling for rental & private session scheduling. If you need any help, just call.
Step 4: Photos, News, Promotions & More:
Follow us on Facebook for our most current promotions and updates and for daily photos when your dog is playing, staying, or training at K9cation. *Our most important updates are pinned to the top of our Facebook page.
New here? Your dog’s first daycare day is on us.
Thank you for joining our community. Please be respectful, our policy to visit or participate in any service at K9cation is to have a scheduled appointment.
Meet Our Founder
Kelly Roll
Founder, K9cation, Colorado
Kelly Roll is a lifelong dog trainer, canine behavior expert, and the founder of K9cation, Colorado’s largest and most innovative dog boarding and sport facility. With more than 40 years of hands-on experience in dog sports, behavioral training, and enrichment-based care, Kelly is known for her balanced, results-driven approach to helping dogs thrive. Her expertise spans aggression rehabilitation, therapy and service dog foundations, youth mentorship, and building clear, lasting communication between dogs and their families.
Raised in the world of dog sports, Kelly began showing dogs at just two years old and has since mentored hundreds of handlers while rehabilitating dogs from all walks of life, including therapy dogs, service animals, and court-ordered aggression cases. She is the author of a published book and the creator of a certification program designed to train dog boarding and daycare staff in behavior rehabilitation and safe canine handling.
Certified through the AKC, Kelly specializes in behavior modification, obedience foundations, and dog sports for both fun and competition. After a 24-year career in executive leadership with the State of Colorado, she retired to pursue her lifelong vision: building Colorado’s most comprehensive, enriching, and thoughtfully designed dog facility.
“Better environments create better dogs.”
-Kelly
We've been K9cation customers for several years now. It is so great to know our springer Holly is being cared for, having fun in a safe and active environment while we're away. The staff and facilities are just top notch and they really do love on your dog! We love this place!
-Carol B.
This training and care facility is top notch. I have been to a few and by far K9cation far exceeds the experience I have had elsewhere. I will not take my pups anywhere else.
-Tiffany S.
K9cation is the best! Our dogs love going there, they come home happy, tired, and well cared for. The staff is warm, professional, and truly treats every dog like their own. We always feel confident and at ease knowing they’re in great hands. Highly recommend!
-Brittany L.
Testimonials From Our Loyal Guests
The best compliment we get? A wagging tail, and a referral from one happy pup to another
K9cation is hands down the best daycare/boarding facility I have ever seen. I have about 10 dog boarding spots within a few miles of my house, but I will go 45mins out of the way just to bring my dog here. For the first time ever, I don’t feel guilty going on vacation because I know my dog is in a great place in great hands. I happened to meet the owner Kelly when I dropped my dog off, and she was so welcoming and immediately offered a tour of the facility. Every other place I’ve ever been doesn’t even let you in the back where the dogs are which is a little concerning.. K9cation is so different though and it is truly a dog paradise. So many areas to play and so many options for training/mental exercises/add ons specific to whatever needs your particular breed of dog has. I even got a detailed report card of my dogs training with tips on how to continue at home. Bottom line, I refuse to go anywhere else from now on. I’m so, so glad I discovered this place for my pup."
-Nicole C.
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