You can walk your dog through Valley Gardens and up into the Pinewoods, across the open grass of the Stray, or along the Nidderdale Greenway over the Nidd Gorge Viaduct. In town, the Knox, Three's a Crowd, Cold Bath Brewing and Crema Coffee on Royal Parade all let them in.
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5 hotels, inns and B&Bs and 1 cottages and holiday lets that take dogs, each with its dog charge and limits.
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Our picks: the places most welcoming to dogs.
Inn · Harrogate
Dog charge: £15 per night (covers up to two dogs when booked direct)
An inn on Ripon Road at the top of the town centre, with dog-friendly rooms in every room category and a pub downstairs.
Inn · Knaresborough
Dog charge: £15 per night (covers up to two dogs when booked direct)
An inn at Bond End in Knaresborough, with dog rooms in every room category and a pub and restaurant downstairs.
Hotel · West Park
Dog charge: £20 per dog per night
A hotel on West Park overlooking the Stray, with a bar, a courtyard and a restaurant.
Holiday park · Follifoot
A holiday park south-east of Harrogate with cottages, lodges and touring pitches, a dog exercise area and the DeerHouse bar. The luxury lodges are pet-free.
Dogs in selected rooms only: ask when booking.
Harrogate is a Victorian spa town built around its mineral wells, with the Stray, a ring of open grassland, wrapped around the old centre. Valley Gardens runs from Royal Parade up to the Pinewoods, and Knaresborough, with its castle above the River Nidd, is about 3 miles east.
North of town, the Nidderdale Greenway follows an old railway line from Bilton to Ripley and crosses the Nidd Gorge on a seven-arch viaduct. Further out, the National Trust's Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal has the abbey ruins, a deer park and the Seven Bridges Valley walk.
Dogs welcome inside
Dogs welcome inside
Dogs welcome inside
Dogs welcome inside
A 17-acre Victorian park in Low Harrogate, open all year, running up from Royal Parade to the Pinewoods. The Magnesia Well cafe sells drinks and snacks, and there are toilets in the gardens.
200 acres of open grass and tree-lined verges that wrap around the old town, so you're never far from it. In early March it's covered in crocuses.
A traffic-free path on an old railway line from Bilton, in north Harrogate, to Ripley, past meadows and woodland. Halfway along it crosses the Nidd Gorge on a seven-arch viaduct. Cyclists use it too.
A National Trust circular walk 12 miles north of Harrogate, from the Fountains Abbey visitor centre along the River Skell and its old arched bridges, with a few moderate hills. Dogs are welcome in all the outdoor spaces and in the visitor centre restaurant.
The journey
The nearest station is Harrogate.
You can take up to two dogs on the train to Harrogate for free. Keep them on a lead or in a carrier on the train and at stations.
Harrogate station is on Station Parade in the town centre, under a mile from Valley Gardens.
The council's Jubilee car park on Union Street and Victoria car park by the station are both multi-storeys in the centre, open every day except Christmas Day and Boxing Day (Victoria also closes on Easter Sunday). You can't park on the Stray itself.
S = stay, B = beach, P = pub or cafe, W = walk start. Hover over or tap a pin to see its card.
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