Can dogs go on The Spit?
Main Beach, City of Gold Coast.
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The rules are written below.
The Spit foreshore between the southern Seaway rock groyne and the Muriel Henchman Avenue beach entrance is an off-leash area. The flagged bathing area at lifeguard tower 45 is excluded from the usual 200 metre flag ban.
Seaway rock groyne to Muriel Henchman Avenue
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The Animal Control Area Register designates The Spit, Sea World Drive, Main Beach, as a dog off-leash area: the foreshore between the southern Seaway rock groyne and the Muriel Henchman Avenue beach entrance, map 120, resolved 5 April 2013. Dogs are prohibited within 200 metres of any flagged bathing area, excluding the flagged bathing area inside this off-leash area at the beach known as The Southport Spit, adjacent to lifeguard tower 45.
- All year
- All day: off leash. Outside those times: off leash.
The 200 metre flag ban does not apply to the flagged bathing area at lifeguard tower 45. It still applies to other flagged bathing areas. This clock cannot see flags.
The Spit, Sea World Drive, Main Beach, the area of foreshore between the southern Seaway rock groyne and Muriel Henchman Avenue beach 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 -27.9520, 153.4280. It is not the boundary between groynes, access tracks or signed zones.
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