Can dogs go on Palm Beach dog area?
Palm Beach, City of Gold Coast.
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The rules are written below.
Palm Beach South, from south of lifeguard tower 13 to the Currumbin Creek groyne, including the Rockview Public Park inlet, is off leash.
South of lifeguard tower 13 to the Currumbin Creek groyne
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The register designates Palm Beach South, Rockview Public Park and Currumbin Creek: the area south of lifeguard tower 13 to the Currumbin Creek groyne, including the inlet of Rockview Public Park, as a dog off-leash area, map 178, resolved 5 April 2013. The off-leash brochure names Palm Beach as one of the six beach and foreshore off-leash areas. Dogs are prohibited within 200 metres of any flagged bathing area in a bathing reserve. The register excludes only the flagged bathing area at The Southport Spit beside lifeguard tower 45.
- All year
- All day: off leash. Outside those times: off leash.
Dogs are prohibited within 200 metres of any flagged bathing area in a bathing reserve. The tower 45 exclusion applies only at The Spit, not here. This clock cannot see flags.
Palm Beach South, Rockview Public Park and Currumbin Creek, Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach, the area south of Lifeguard Tower 13 to Currumbin Creek groyne.
Source: City of Gold Coast page, checked 27 October 2026.
Also on the council page
- The pin is a guide to the suburb. The red or green line on the register map is the boundary.
The map pin is a guide at -28.1240, 153.4730. It is not the boundary between groynes, access tracks or signed zones.
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