Can dogs go on Surfers Paradise?
Surfers Paradise, City of Gold Coast.
Surfers Paradise Beach: check with council
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Get directionsRules can change at short notice. Always check the signs at the beach and the council's page before you go.
The published rule is not complete enough to calculate a live status. Use the council link and the signs on the beach.
This status is only for Surfers Paradise Beach outside towers 37 to 33. Each stretch below has its own status.
Dogs are prohibited from lifeguard tower 37 at Higman Street south to tower 33 at Clifford Street. The rest of Surfers Paradise Beach is not given a boundary in the register.
This beach is published as more than one stretch. Read the one that matches the signs in front of you.
Surfers Paradise Beach outside towers 37 to 33
The status at the top of the page uses this stretch.
Check with council
The register prohibits dogs on Surfers Paradise beach from lifeguard tower 37 at Higman Street south to tower 33 at Clifford Street. It does not describe the rest of Surfers Paradise Beach as off leash or as prohibited. The off-leash brochure says that outside a designated off-leash area a dog is on a leash, and that some beach areas are prohibited. Without a boundary for the remainder, there is no live status for sand outside towers 37 to 33.
Surfers Paradise beach, from Lifeguard Tower No. 37 at Higman Street, south to Lifeguard Tower No. 33 at Clifford Street.
Source: City of Gold Coast page, checked 27 October 2026.
Lifeguard tower 37 at Higman Street to tower 33 at Clifford Street
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The register prohibits dogs on Surfers Paradise beach from lifeguard tower 37 at Higman Street south to lifeguard tower 33 at Clifford Street, limited to the red dotted line on map 165, resolved 5 April 2013.
- All year
- All day: no dogs.
Surfers Paradise beach, from Lifeguard Tower No. 37 at Higman Street, south to Lifeguard Tower No. 33 at Clifford Street, Surfers Paradise.
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 -28.0020, 153.4310. It is not the boundary between groynes, access tracks or signed zones.
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