Off-leash dog areas in Far North
Far North District Council publishes 5 named places where a dog may be off the lead, and this is all of them. Underneath sits the honest version of the question everyone actually asks, which is whether any of it is fenced.
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- Dog management areas © Far North District Council / LINZ (CC BY 4.0)
The 5 off-leash places Far North District Council names
Alphabetical, exactly as the council names them. Where the council attaches a condition to a particular zone we carry its wording underneath that zone.
- Old Landfill at Lindvart Park, Kaikohe
- Rolands Wood, 240 Kerikeri Inlet Road
- Sammaree Place, Kerikeri
- Te HaumiOff-leash and under control (default beach rule). Only the section 50m south of the public toilets to the bridge is Prohibited. (FNDC Dog Management Policy 2018 Sch 1)
- Waitotara Reserve, Kerikeri
11 dog parks near Far North
A council off-leash zone tells you where a dog may run, not whether anything is fenced, and we hold no fencing data on the zones at all. A dog park is where that question can be answered, and it is the one that matters when the recall is still a work in progress. These are the dog park records we hold within 35 km of the Far North zones, sorted by what the evidence actually supports. District lines and dog parks do not agree, so a few of these sit in the next district over: each one carries the nearest town we map.
Fenced, in the source's own words (0)
Each of these comes off a council page that classes the area as fenced, quoted below with a link to the page it came from.
None of the dog parks near here carry a published fencing statement.
Part fenced, or a fence mapped but not proven (0)
Either the source describes a fence around part of the area, or a fence line is drawn in OpenStreetMap without anything confirming it encloses the dog area. Walk in on a lead and look before you unclip.
Nothing near here falls in this group.
Fencing not confirmed (11)
We hold no fencing statement at all for these, so treat them as open ground. Not confirmed is not the same as not fenced, and we are not going to guess which one it is.
| Dog park | Where | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waitotara Reserve | near Mangōnui, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Off-leash Areas ... Off-Leash and Under Control' list includes: 'Kerikeri – Waitotara Reserve, Waip | fndc.govt.nz |
| Sammaree Place Reserve | near Mangōnui, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Off-leash Areas – These areas have been identified for the wellbeing and recreational needs of dogs | fndc.govt.nz |
| Roland's Wood | near Mangōnui, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, heading 'Off-leash Areas – These areas have been identified for the wellbeing and recreational needs | fndc.govt.nz |
| Old Landfill at Lindvart Park | near Mangōnui, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Off-leash Areas – These areas have been identified for the wellbeing and recreational needs of dogs | fndc.govt.nz |
| Opua-Paihia Coastal Walkway | near Whangārei, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'District-wide Rules' table, column 'All year round': 'Opua-Paihia Coastal Walkway, Off-leash and u | fndc.govt.nz |
| Paihia Beach | near Whangārei, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Rules for Popular Beaches' table. Row: 'Paihia Beach', '1 February – 14 December: Off-leash and un | fndc.govt.nz |
| Te Tii Beach (from the roundabout to the bluff) | near Whangārei, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Rules for Popular Beaches' table. Row: 'Te Tii Beach - from the roundabout to the bluff', '1 Febru | fndc.govt.nz |
| Russell Beach | near Whangārei, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Rules for Popular Beaches' table. Row: 'Russell Beach', '1 February – 14 December: Off-leash and u | fndc.govt.nz |
| Tapeka Point Beach | near Whangārei, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Rules for Popular Beaches' table. Row: 'Tapeka Point Beach', '1 February – 14 December: Off-leash | fndc.govt.nz |
| Mahinepua Beach | near Mangōnui, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Rules for Popular Beaches' table. Row: 'Mahinepua Beach', '1 February – 14 December: Off-leash and | fndc.govt.nz |
| Tauranga Bay Beach (west of the tractor access point) | near Mangōnui, Northland | Dog Management Policy 2018, Schedule 1, 'Rules for Popular Beaches' table. Row: 'Tauranga Bay - west of tractor access point', '1 February | fndc.govt.nz |