Check the rule for every overnight stop and walking track separately. These records include places where dogs are prohibited; appearing here is not permission to bring a dog.
Planning checklist & guides
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Read the full rule, including bans, lead requirements and permits.
Confirm restrictions for your dates and accommodation category.
Ask the land manager about assistance-dog arrangements separately.
Campsites qualify with sourced pet rules marked yes, no or conditional. Tracks qualify with a sourced, recorded dog-policy fact. Unknowns are excluded, and prohibitions are deliberately retained.
All 648 published campsite records, 1589 walking-track records and 26 trip plans are considered against the relevant criteria. Campsites with a closed notice are excluded. Seasonal and access notices remain visible; inclusion does not confirm that a place is open.
Each page shows up to 12 matches per group in name order (A-Z), not a ranking. Use the page links to browse every match. Groups share a page number; shorter groups finish earlier. Full finders also include records outside this topic. Source wording and check dates are retained here and on record pages, not live availability checks.
Partial view of Cliff Top campground's open grass and scattered trees beside a service-road turnaround and the coastal tree line. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
An open grass camping terrace has branching vehicle tracks and scattered campers beside a winding river and forest. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
A grassy terrace and curved gravel turnout beside a stony stream crossing, with wooded slopes and branching tracks. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
Small waterfront campground with caravans along the shore lane and buildings among trees beside the estuary. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
Pets require advance manager approval for camping in your own tent or vehicle. No pets during NZ school holidays, public-holiday weekends or 20 December to 10 February. No pets in fixed accommodation, around park facilities or with day visitors. Sign the pet conditions at check-in.
A small tree-fringed camping clearing connects to the coastal road beside a stony creek bed and broad grey beach. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
Shelly Beach's camping lawns, accommodation and internal loops between the tidal shore and wooded hillside. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
Pets require prior agreement with this park. Call before booking to confirm your dates, animal and accommodation category; seasonal, breed and site restrictions may apply.
Compact urban holiday park with caravans, small accommodation units, shared lanes and a blue pool among surrounding streets. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
Dogs require advance approval for short stays. The published charge is NZ$5 per dog per night on sites; room charges differ. Keep dogs leashed and supervised, and out of shared facilities. No visitors' dogs; confirm registration and breed requirements before booking.
Compact campground with caravan pitches, red-roofed facilities and a turquoise pool near the beachfront road. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
A narrow grassy campground with a winding access road and scattered campers follows a stony stream between wooded slopes. Historical aerial imagery includes adjacent land; it is not a current pitch plan or surveyed park boundary. Cropped and converted to WebP from LINZ Basemaps.
Cowshed Bay upper camp shelter. Photograph of the named location or its documented route feature. Capture date not supplied; not a live view of current conditions.
A pale outlined route climbs from a forest clearing toward a bare mountain ridge, with dark conifer blocks below and a dense town-and-road corridor on the right. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.
A branching outlined route spreads across a dry grassy peninsula dotted with trees, surrounded by deep-blue water and a small curved bay at the bottom. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.
A pale mapped route traverses smooth green hills cut by dark branching gullies, crossing a central valley before zigzagging down toward the lower right. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.
Beverly Price Loop Track. Photograph of the named location or its documented route feature. Capture date not supplied; not a live view of current conditions.
A pale outlined route follows the edge of a broad gravel river as it bends through densely forested green hills from lower left to upper right. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.
General backpacking illustration; location unverified. This is not a photograph of the named route or evidence of its terrain, condition or difficulty.
A branching pale route outline with a compact central loop lies over closely packed blue-green forest crowns of varying sizes. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.
Two long angular route arms cross a forest block beneath a grassy clearing and pale road at upper right, with the lower arm bending down at its eastern end. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.
View from Billygoat Circuit. Photograph of the named location or its documented route feature. Capture date not supplied; not a live view of current conditions.
A short pale V-shaped route segment sits in dense green forest beside the junction of several pale rocky stream channels. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.
A pale outlined route follows a dry creek corridor through tan open hills, curving beside a forest patch at lower left, with a small dark pond near the lower-right edge. Historical aerial imagery with indicative DOC mapped geometry; it may be incomplete or out of date and is not for navigation. This is not a guarantee of the complete or current walk. Not a navigation map or confirmation of access. Cropped, overlaid and converted to WebP.