These parks/preserves/trails allow dogs -- be sure to read the individual pages for restrictions and details:
• Anthony Chabot Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Bishop Ranch Regional Preserve
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Briones Regional Park:
Bear Creek Staging Area,
Lafayette Ridge Staging Area
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline (east)
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline (west)
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Cesar Chavez/North Waterfront Park
(on leash throughout the park, and off leash in a designated area)
• Contra Costa Canal Trail
(on leash where posted, otherwise under voice control)
• Coyote Hills Regional Park
(on leash only in developed area/under voice command in undeveloped area of the park, designated trails only)
• Del Valle Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Diablo Foothills Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Parks
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Joaquin Miller Park (on leash only)
• Kennedy Grove Regional Recreation Area
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Lafayette Reservoir Recreation Area (on leash only)
• Las Trampas Regional Wilderness
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Leona Canyon Regional Open Space Preserve
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Lime Ridge Open Space
• Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline
(leash required in marsh area)
• Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline
(on leash in developed areas, i.e. in the western, lagoon side of the park/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park.)
• Mission Peak Regional Preserve
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Morgan Territory Regional Preserve (on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Mount Wanda
(on leash only)
• Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park; some trails restricted)
• Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Point Isabel Regional Shoreline
(off leash throughout the shoreline park)
• Point Pinole Regional Shoreline
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park; no dogs permitted in the marsh)
• Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area
(on leash only)
• Redwood Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Rush Ranch Open Space Preserve (only permitted on one trail: Suisun Hill Trail, where they must be leashed)
• Sibley Volcanic Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Sobrante Ridge Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Sunol Regional Wilderness
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
• Sycamore Grove Park
(on leash only)
• Tilden Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park; no dogs permitted in Tilden Nature Area)
• Wildcat Canyon Regional Park
(on leash in developed areas/under voice command in undeveloped areas of the park)
North Bay
• Alston Park (on leash
only throughout the park, and off leash in a designated area)
• Alto Bowl Open Space Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Baltimore Canyon Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Blithedale Summit Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Cataract Falls (on
leash only)
• Camino Alto Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Cascade Canyon Open Space
Preserve (on leash only; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Crane Creek Regional Park
(on leash only)
• Deer Island Open Space
Preserve (on leash only)
• Foothill Regional Park
(on leash only)
• Fort Baker (on leash only)
• Gary Giacomini Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Helen Putnam Regional Park
(on leash only)
• Ignacio Valley Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Indian Tree Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Indian Valley Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• King Mountain Open Space Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds
(on leash only)
• Little Mountain Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Loma Alta Open Space Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Lucas Valley Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Marin Headlands/GGNRA
(on leash only/many trails restricted)
Tennessee Valley Trailhead,
Gerbode Valley Trailhead,
Rodeo Beach Trailhead
• Marin Municipal Water District/Mount Tam
(on leash only)
Sky Oaks Trailhead,
Phoenix Lake Trailhead,
Rock Spring Trailhead
• Maurice Thorner Memorial Open
Space Preserve (on leash only)
• Maxwell Farms Regional Park
(on leash only)
• Mt. Burdell Open Space Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice
control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog/some trails restricted)
• Napa River Ecological Reserve
(on leash only)
• Old St. Hilary's Open Space Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Pacheco Valle Open Space Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Pinnacle Gulch Coastal
Access (on leash only)
• Point Reyes National Seashore
(on leash only/allowed on a very few trails in northern section of park
only, including Kehoe Beach)
• Ragle Ranch Regional Park
(on leash only)
• Ring Mountain Open Space
Preserve (on leash only)
• Rockville Hills Park
(on leash only)
• Roy's Redwoods Open Space Preserve
(on leash only/some trails restricted)
• Rush Creek Open Space Preserve
(on leash only/some trails restricted)
• Samuel P. Taylor State Park
(on leash only/only permitted in the developed parts of the park, on paved
park roads, and the dirt "bike path" from the Redwood grove picnic area
east to Shafter bridge)
• San Pedro Mountain Open Space
Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Santa Venetia Marsh Open Space
Preserve (on leash only)
• Sonoma Valley Regional Park
(on leash only -- there's also a small, separate enclosed off-leash area)
• Terra Linda/Sleepy Hollow
Divide Open Space Preserve (north)
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Terra Linda/Sleepy Hollow Divide
Open Space Preserve (south)
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Verissimo Hills Open Space
Preserve (on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under
voice control; dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• White Hill Open Space Preserve
(on leash on trails/off leash permitted on fire roads under voice control;
dog owners must have a leash for every dog)
• Almaden Quicksilver County Park
(on leash only)
• Arastradero Preserve
(on leash only)
• Bair Island
(on leash only, dogs prohibited from water and vegetation)
• Bayfront Park
(on leash only)
• Baylands Preserve
(on leash only)
• Big Canyon Park
• Coal Creek Open Space Preserve
(on leash only)
• Coal Mine Ridge (on leash only, designated trails only)
• Eaton Park
• Fremont Older Open Space Preserve
(on leash only)
• Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
(on leash only, and only on 3 park trails)
• Larry Lane Trail (on leash only)
• Loch Lomond Recreation Area (on leash only)
• Long Ridge Open Space Preserve
(Access to Long Ridge with dogs is only allowed on a small section of the Bay Area Ridge Trail (1.4 miles). The entrance is on CA 35, and visitors with dogs must have the dog on a minimum 6-foot leash at all times, and must fill out a self-administered permit at the trailhead.)
• Los Alamitos Creek Trail
(on leash only)
• Milagra Ridge
(on leash only)
• McNee Ranch State Park
(on leash only)
• Mount Madonna County Park (on leash only)
• Pulgas Open Space Preserve
(on leash only on trails/off leash in 16 acre area)
• Quarry Park
(on leash only)
• Santa Teresa County Park
(on leash only, designated trails only)
• Soquel Demonstration State Forest
(on leash only)
• St. Joseph's Hill Open Space Preserve
(on leash only)
• Stile Ranch
(on leash only)
• Sweeney Ridge
(on leash only)
• Thornewood Open Space Preserve
(on leash only)
• Uvas Canyon County Park
(on leash only)
• Waterdog Lake Park
(on leash only)
• Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
(on leash only, designated trails only)
• Crissy Field
• Fort Funston
• Glen Canyon Park
• Inspiration Point, the Presidio
• McLaren Park
• Mount Davidson Park
• Twin Peaks
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