Chancellor Gardens of Clearfield is a large building by local standards, an assisted-living and memory-care campus of roughly 150 beds on 1500 East, run by a national senior-living name, and on its own it carries the whole of the city's pet-friendly senior living. The community welcomes a resident's dog or cat, which makes it the 1 address a Clearfield family weighs when the move cannot mean leaving the animal behind.
Clearfield skews younger than most of Davis County, with about 6.8 percent of residents past 65 against roughly 11.7 percent statewide, so the senior share here is thinner than in the older suburbs nearby. The families who reach this search still tend to arrive sure of one thing: a parent or spouse who has kept a cat on the lap or a dog at the door for years want a community that lets them keep it, and in Clearfield that points to one campus.
One Campus, One Pet Policy to Learn in Clearfield
Because Clearfield's pet-friendly search runs through a single building, learning Chancellor Gardens' policy is most of the work. The community welcomes dogs and cats in its assisted-living apartments, and as at most campuses the animal's size is where the real line sits: cats and small dogs clear easily, while a bigger or higher-energy dog is judged one at a time against the room and the building's insurance. The size cap, the up-front deposit, and any breed limit are set by the community rather than posted online, so a family confirms them directly.
The rest of the welcome follows the ordinary shape of any shared Clearfield building. Chancellor Gardens expects up-to-date vaccination records and a dog that stays calm and housebroken around neighbors, and the resident is expected to feed, walk, and clean up after the pet, with a named backup who can step in during a hospital stay. The memory-care side is the one place to ask carefully, because a secured neighborhood for dementia care often limits animals more than the assisted-living apartments do: a resident who cannot dependably look after a pet day to day may not be able to keep one there. Whether a given resident can bring a cat or dog onto that floor is something only the community can answer.
What a Month at Chancellor Gardens Runs, With the Pet
Chancellor Gardens lists assisted living from around $5,050 a month, with memory care running higher, near $5,400, for the added staffing a secured neighborhood needs. The figure a family is quoted turns on the room and the level of daily help, not on the pet.
The animal itself adds two smaller lines to a Chancellor Gardens bill. Expect a single up-front pet deposit, commonly a few hundred dollars and sometimes partly refundable, plus a modest monthly charge that offsets the extra cleaning a shared building takes on. Confirm both with Chancellor Gardens, since the published rate rarely spells them out. One cost is never charged for an assistance animal: a trained service dog is not a pet under federal housing law and pays no deposit or pet fee, a point worth raising plainly when the lease is drawn up.
Fewer Seniors Than the State, and One Open Campus
Clearfield counts about 2,280 residents past 65, a thinner senior share than the older Davis County suburbs carry, and with national surveys putting pet ownership near half of that age group, on the order of 1,050 local households likely keep a dog or cat. For a city served by 1 pet-welcoming community, that makes it worth asking early whether Chancellor Gardens has an opening in the apartment type a resident needs. Walking is the easy part: Steed Pond and its park sit minutes away with more than a mile of paved loops, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Rail Trail runs along the city's east side for a longer, flat outing.
Why a Clearfield Owner Doesn't Have to Choose
The pull to keep the search in Clearfield is that a resident does not have to choose between the move and the animal that anchors the day. Chancellor Gardens sits a short drive from Steed Memorial Park, where more than a mile of paved path loops past a stocked fishing pond, and the rail trail offers a flat, leashed walk that suits an older dog. A 24-hour emergency animal hospital is about 10 minutes away in Layton, with routine vet care and pet supplies on the same corridor, so an owner who keeps errands close to home still has the essentials within reach. Researchers who study healthy aging connect pet companionship to steadier routines and more connection, which is why a Clearfield family tends to treat keeping the pet as part of the decision rather than something to set aside.
Reading Chancellor Gardens Before You Tour
With the whole search resting on one building, the advisor's job in Clearfield is to read Chancellor Gardens closely before a family spends a Saturday on a tour. The advisor tracks whether it currently has an opening in the apartment type a resident needs, the real size cap and deposit it does not advertise, and the harder memory-care question of whether a resident moving to the secured side can keep the pet at all. A confident-sounding listing can gloss that last point, and a current read saves a wasted visit.
The advisor also helps build the backup-care plan a family rarely thinks about until a hospital stay forces it, and weighs the service-animal and assistance-animal questions against the Fair Housing rules as they stand now rather than by guesswork. Get in touch for a straight read on Clearfield's pet-friendly senior living, or look over the community listed here at your own pace.
