And the dog came too... dog walks in New Zealand
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  • South Island
    • North-West >
      • Atua Stream Walk
      • Barnicoat
      • Ben Nevis
      • Botanical Hill
      • Boulder Bank
      • Brooklyn
      • Collingwood Beach
      • Collingwood Cemetery
      • Cotterell Road
      • Dellside
      • Dicker Road
      • Dominion Flats
      • Eves Valley Road
      • Faulkner Bush
      • Grampians
      • Great Taste Trail - Richmond
      • Great Taste Trail - Kohatu
      • Great Taste Trail - Wakefield
      • Hacket Valley
      • Hoddy Estuary Reserve
      • Hoddy Road
      • Kawatiri Rail Tunnel walk
      • Kina Beach
      • Maitai Valley
      • Mapua Headland
      • Marahau Beach
      • Marahau Forest
      • Mead Stream
      • Milnthorpe Forest
      • Motueka Inlet
      • Motueka Spit
      • Pakawau Beach
      • Paton's Rock
      • Paynes Ford Tramline Track
      • Pearse Valley
      • Pohara Beach
      • Rameka Creek
      • Red Hills
      • Ridgeview Road Walkway
      • Robson Reserve
      • Rough Island
      • Sharlands
      • Split Apple Rock
      • Stagecoach Road
      • St Arnaud Loop Walk
      • Tahunanui Beach
      • Tantragee
      • Tasman View Road
      • Teetotal
      • Two Rivers
      • Waimea Fish-Out Ponds
      • Waimea River Trail
      • Wairoa River Left Branch
      • Waiwhero Forest
      • Waiwhero Ridge
    • North-East >
      • Archer's Track
      • Blairich Reserve
      • Cullen Creek
      • Cullen Point
      • Davies Bay Track
      • Esson's Valley Tracks
      • Goulter River
      • Grovetown Lagoon
      • Half Moon Track
      • Kotuku Trail
      • Lake Chalice
      • Link Trail East
      • Link Trail West
      • Lower Wairau
      • Mount Baldy and Mount Royal
      • Mount Barrett Walkway
      • Mount Fell
      • Mount Fishtail
      • Mount Richmond
      • Mount Riley
      • Mount Robertson
      • Mount Stokes
      • Mount Takorika
      • Ngakuta Bay
      • Nydia Track
      • Opouri Bridle Track
      • Patutu Walk
      • Pelorus Track
      • Piwakawa Track
      • Rarangi
      • Sawcut Gorge
      • Snout Tracks
      • Taylor's Valley
      • Tirohanga
      • Wairau River
      • Wakamarina Track
    • West >
      • Alborns Track
      • Big Rimu Tree walk
      • Cape Foulwind
      • Charming Creek
      • Chasm Creek
      • Coalbrookdale
      • Denniston Historic Walkway
      • Denniston Plateau
      • Duffy's Creek
      • Gentle Annie Point walk
      • Goldsborough Tracks
      • Haast-Paringa Cattle Track
      • Karamea Estuary
      • Kawatiri Beach Trail
      • Kawatiri River Trail
      • Klondyke Routes
      • Kumara Community walks
      • Lake Hanlon
      • Lankey's Creek
      • Lake Stream Route
      • Larry's Creek
      • Mikonui River
      • Millerton Bathhouse Track
      • Moeraki Valley Track
      • Mokihinui Stopbank
      • Mount Adams
      • Mount Glasgow
      • Mount Haast Route
      • Murchison Tree Walks
      • Murray Creek
      • Old Ghost Road
      • Porika Road
      • Powerhouse and Lookout Walks
      • Progress Water Race
      • Ross Goldfield Walks
      • Skyline Walk
      • Stafford Bay Loop
      • Wanganui River
      • Whataroa Walks
      • Whitcombe Loop Tracks
      • Whitcombe Valley Track
      • Zig-Zag Track
    • Central-North >
      • Balmoral Lookout
      • Bottle Lake
      • Cheviot Hills Reserve
      • Childrens Bay Farm
      • Craigieburn Forest
      • Culverden Domain
      • Diamond Harbour
      • Ellangowan Scenic Reserve
      • Garden of Tane
      • Godley Head
      • Governors Bay
      • Halswell Quarry
      • Hanmer Forest Walks
      • H W Hart Arboretum
      • Ka Whata Tu o Rakihouia
      • Kaikoura Trail
      • Kawatea Walkway
      • Kowai Bush Reserve
      • Kowai River
      • Lyttleton Coastal Walk
      • Lytteleton Hills
      • McCleans Forest
      • McHughs Forest Park
      • Mears Bush
      • Mount Grey
      • Mount Oxford
      • Mount Richardson
      • Mount Thomas
      • Newton Falls
      • Ngaio Point
      • Panama Rock
      • Pegasus Bay
      • Rakahuri River
      • Sign of the Bellbird
      • Sign of the Kiwi
      • St James Conservation Park
      • Tutakakahikura Scenic Reserve​
      • Victoria Park
      • West Melton Forest
      • Woodills North
      • Woodills South
    • Central-South >
      • Ahuriri East Branch
      • Ahuriri Valley Tracks
      • Ashburton River
      • Benmore Peninsula
      • Centennial Park
      • Cowan's Hill
      • Dingle Burn
      • Double Hill
      • Freehold Creek
      • Greta and Dorcy Tracks
      • Gunns Bush
      • Hook Bush
      • Huxley and Hopkins Valleys
      • Kelceys Bush
      • Knottingly Park
      • Lake Emma walk
      • Lake Emily Tracks
      • Lake Hood
      • Lake Ohau Track
      • Lake Opuha Walk
      • Lake Tekapo Lakeside Walk
      • Lake Tekapo Regional Park
      • Lake Wainono
      • Lower Opihi River Track
      • Macaulay River walk
      • Methven walkway
      • Mount Barrosa
      • Mount Sunday & Mount Potts
      • Opihi River Walkway
      • Orari River Mountain Bike Tracks
      • Pareora River
      • Pioneer Park
      • Potts River Walks
      • Quailburn Track
      • Saltwater Creek
      • Snowy Gorge
      • Talbot Forest
      • Temple Valley Tracks
      • Waihao River
      • Waihi River Walk
      • Waimate Creek walks
      • Waitohi Bush
    • South-East >
      • Alexandra Anniversary Walk
      • Arawata Bridle Track
      • Arrow Gorge Loop
      • Arrowtown Millennium Walkway
      • Bannockburn Sluicings
      • Beacon Point Outlet Track
      • Bob's Cove and Twelve Mile Delta
      • Boundary Creek
      • Bull Creek
      • Bullendale Track
      • Butcher's Dam
      • Cairnmuir Hill
      • Central Otago Rail Trail
      • Chrystals Beach
      • Clutha Riverside Track
      • Commissioner's Track
      • Conroy's Dam
      • Cromwell-Pisa Walkway
      • Crystal Battery
      • Deans Bank Track
      • Diamond Creek Track
      • Dunedin Walks
      • Earnscleugh Tailings
      • Flagstaff Hill
      • Frankton Arm Walkway
      • Gabriel's Gully
      • Gladstone Track
      • Gibbston River Trail
      • Glendhu Bay Track
      • Glenorchy Boardwalk
      • Grovers Hill
      • Hawea River Track
      • Huriawa Pa Walk
      • Kanuka Loop
      • Kopuwai Conservation Area
      • Lake Alta Track
      • Lake Hayes Trail
      • Lakeside Walk
      • Leith Saddle
      • Long Beach
      • Mapoutahi
      • Mosgiel Floodbank
      • Mount Cargill
      • Mount Crichton Loop
      • Mount Iron Track
      • Munro's Gully
      • Naseby Forest
      • Nevis Valley Tracks
      • Newcastle Track
      • One MIle Creek
      • Oteake Conservation Park
      • St Bathans
      • Outram Glen
      • Quartz Reef
      • Queenstown Trail
      • Rock and Pillar Conservation Area
      • Sunshine Bay
      • Tiki Trail
      • Trotters Gorge
      • Upper Clutha Track
      • Wilson's Bay
    • South-West >
      • Blair Athol Walkway
      • Boyd Creek
      • Manapouri cycleway
      • McLean Falls
      • The Bluff
  • North Island
    • Wellington >
      • Ahumairangi Hill
      • Akatarawa Forest
      • Ara Harakeke
      • Barr Brown Bush
      • Belmont Regional Park
      • Bothamley/Cannons Creek Pathway
      • Burttons Track
      • Carters Bush
      • Castlepoint
      • Catchpool Valley
      • East Harbour Regional Park
      • Featherston-Greytown Trail
      • Holdsworth Tracks
      • Hutt River Trail
      • Kaitoke Regional Park
      • Kiriwhakapapa
      • Levin walks
      • Mount Victoria tracks
      • Otaki Forks
      • Otaki River Walk
      • Pakuratahi Forest
      • Queen Elizabeth Park
      • Remutaka Rail Trail
      • Rewanui Forest Park
      • Riversdale
      • Skyline Track
      • Taua Tapu Track
      • Tauherenikau Gorge and Mount Frith
      • Te Ara Piko
      • Te Kopahou Reserve
      • Waikenae River
      • Waiohine Gorge
      • Waipoua River Walk
      • Wairaka Walkway
      • Wairio Wetlands
      • Wainuiomata Regional Park
      • Wellington Botanic Gardens
      • Whitireia Park
    • Auckland & Waiheke
    • Coromandel & North Waikato
    • The North >
      • Taranaki & Central
    • Manawatu & Wairarapa
    • The East
  • Useful Links
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Useful LInks

Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa (Outdoor Access Commission)

The Outdoor Access Map is a website developed by the Outdoor Access Commission - a government agency set up to sort out the confusion over public access to the countryside in New Zealand. The website provides interactive maps showing roads (including paper roads), tracks, trails, easements and areas which are legally open to the public. The information provided about tracks is, unfortunately, much more limited than it used to be, and there are no longer indications of whether walks are dog-friendly. Also, many of the links to further information are somewhat genericso don't help much. Even so, it's a very useful resource, and is a good way of checking whether a track is accessible to the public or not, or where within an area you're allowed to walk. So if you want to check out details of tracks before your trip it's a good placve to start. To do so, go to:

www.herengaanuku.govt.nz/maps/outdoor-access-maps/

Deprtment of Conservation (DoC)


A large proportion of the walks in New Zealand are either owned or managed by DoC. DoC's attitude to dog-walking on their land is not always symapthetic and is somewhat inconsent from one region to another, but I have to say it has improved considerably over recent years. What's also improved is the information provided about dog-friendly walks on their website, and with a bit of burrowing it's possible to search for sites where you can take your dog either in the country as a whole, or by region. To do so, follow this link:

Dog friendly walks on DoC


Other Useful Sites

Share My Pet: dedicated to connecting pet owners and other would be pet-lovers in the community, to the benefit of both (plus, of course, the pet). A great idea! Check it out by clicking the link below, or visiting their Facebook page:

www.sharemypet.co.nz

They also have a database of pet-friendly cafes and restaurants at:

https://www.sharemypet.co.nz/new-zealand-dog-friendly-cafes-and-restaurant-directory/
If you've found this website helpful, you might also want to look at some of my novels and poetry. These, like my dog-walking, are drawn from a love of nature and the countryside. To learn more, click here.