Pet Friendly
Pet friendly - Dog holidays in the Lennox Head region
Bring your best mate on holiday with you. There are a number of places that you can walk your dog in the Lennox Head region and they love the beach!
Dog exercising off-leash areas:
- Seven Mile Beach, Lennox Head – off leash permitted north of the Surf Club.
- Headlands Drive Drainage Reserve, Skennars Head
- Bicentennial Gardens, the northern area of the reserve, Ballina
- Compton Drive, East Ballina
- Gap Road, Alstonville
- Ballina Heights Estate, eastern reserve area, Ballina Heights
- The Spit, Ballina
Conditions of Use
- Your dog must always be under effective control. ‘Effective control’ means your dog responds to your command and remains close to you.
- If your dog is not sufficiently trained to be under your effective control and shows signs of anti-social behaviour and aggression you must remove the dog immediately from the area.
- Pick up your dog poo and dispose in a waste bin.
- Be considerate of all other users of the area. It is not for the exclusive use of dogs and their owners.
- Your dog must be accompanied at all times by an adult or person over 16 years.
Dog ‘No-Go’ Areas
If a person is found to allow their dog in these prohibited areas they may be issued with a penalty infringement notice which may exceed $330. Because of the popularity of some beaches and the presence of migratory and shorebirds, dogs are not allowed on:
- Shelly Beach
- Lighthouse Beach
- Seven Mile Beach, south of identified beach access track located just north of Lennox Head/Alstonville Surf Lifesaving Club
- Flat Rock reef
- The Serpentine
- Sharpes Beach, northern end of Sharpes Beach during surf patrols
- Shaws Bay
- Chickiba Lake, north/eastern corner surrounding the migratory and shorebirds roosting area
- Lake Ainsworth and surrounding foreshore/reserve
- Fire Trail end of Camp Drewe Road, Lennox Head