Off-leash dog areas in Gisborne
Gisborne District Council publishes 8 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.
Full attribution
- Dog exercise areas © Gisborne District Council (CC BY 4.0)
The 8 off-leash places Gisborne 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.
- Ayton Park
- Beach and Foreshore (Stanley Road to Waipaoa River)
- Coldstream Road Reserve
- Heath Johnston Park (Paraone Road end)
- Nelson Park (Adjacent to footbridge)
- Wainui Beach (Except between flags)
- Waiteata Park (North side of stream)
- Whataupoko Reserve (Fox Street)
8 dog parks near Gisborne
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 Gisborne 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 (8)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whataupoko Reserve | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': under heading 'Off-leash dog exercise areas', "You can exercise your dog without a leash, | gdc.govt.nz |
| Heath Johnston Park - Paraone Road end | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': under heading 'Off-leash dog exercise areas', "You can exercise your dog without a leash, | gdc.govt.nz |
| Nelson Park - adjacent the footbridge | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': under heading 'Off-leash dog exercise areas', "You can exercise your dog without a leash, | gdc.govt.nz |
| Ayton Park | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': under heading 'Off-leash dog exercise areas', "You can exercise your dog without a leash, | gdc.govt.nz |
| Waiteata Park - north side of the waterway, non-playground side | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': under heading 'Off-leash dog exercise areas', "You can exercise your dog without a leash, | gdc.govt.nz |
| Coldstream Reserve | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': under heading 'Off-leash dog exercise areas', "You can exercise your dog without a leash, | gdc.govt.nz |
| Wainui Beach (except between the flags) | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': "You can exercise your dog without a leash, provided they remain under continuous supervisi | gdc.govt.nz |
| Beach and foreshore (Stanley Road to Waipaoa River) | Location from the map only | Gisborne District Council, 'Dog exercise areas': "You can exercise your dog without a leash, provided they remain under continuous supervisi | gdc.govt.nz |