Can dogs go on Tallebudgera Beach dog area?
Palm Beach, City of Gold Coast.
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The rules are written below.
Tallebudgera Beach from north of the bathing reserve at lifeguard tower 16 to the Tallebudgera Creek entrance is off leash.
North of lifeguard tower 16 to the creek entrance
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The register designates Tallebudgera beach, Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach: the area north of the Tallebudgera bathing reserve (lifeguard tower 16) to the Tallebudgera Creek entrance, as a dog off-leash area, map 174, resolved 5 April 2013. 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.
Tallebudgera beach, Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach, the area north of the Tallebudgera bathing reserve (Lifeguard Tower 16) to the Tallebudgera Creek Entrance.
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 -28.1480, 153.4680. It is not the boundary between groynes, access tracks or signed zones.
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