About the data

How this guide works

Leashless lists every public off-leash dog area we can find in British Columbia, using open data published by cities and by OpenStreetMap volunteers. Last checked Sep 25, 2026.

Where the data comes from

• OpenStreetMap contributors 82 parks
• City of Burnaby GIS 12 parks
• City of Coquitlam Open Data 7 parks
• City of Cranbrook Open Data 2 parks
• City of Delta GIS 13 parks
• City of Kamloops Open Data 29 parks
• Regional District of Central Okanagan 26 parks
• Metro Vancouver Regional Parks 6 parks
• City of Maple Ridge GIS 6 parks
• City of New Westminster GIS 9 parks
• District of North Vancouver GeoWeb 7 parks
• City of Penticton Open Data 9 parks
• City of Port Moody Open Data 4 parks
• City of Revelstoke Open Data 6 parks
• District of Summerland Open Data 1 parks
• City of Surrey GIS 19 parks
• City of Vancouver Open Data 42 parks

Where a city or regional district publishes its own off-leash data, that's the source of truth: in Metro Vancouver (Vancouver, Surrey, Delta, Burnaby, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Port Moody, Maple Ridge and the District of North Vancouver) and elsewhere in BC (Kelowna and the Central Okanagan, Kamloops, Penticton, Revelstoke, Cranbrook and Summerland). Everywhere else, listings come from OpenStreetMap, which also fills gaps such as fencing or a park outline, and says so on the park's page. Leash-optional regional parks come from Metro Vancouver and are folded into an existing listing when one exists. Off-leash areas inside the same park are grouped into one listing, the way the cities group them.

Patios, vets and cat cafés

Dog-friendly patios and breweries are listed only when the venue itself or the city says dogs are welcome.Vets and animal hospitals start from OpenStreetMap; what each clinic treats and offers comes from the clinic's own website, linked from its listing with the date we checked. If a clinic doesn't say, we leave it blank. Cat cafés are checked by hand, one by one. None of this is veterinary advice: always phone a clinic before you go.

What "not recorded" means

It means the source doesn't say. It does not mean the park lacks that feature. Fencing is the big one: it's recorded for 81 of 280 parks. Vancouver's dataset, for example, records shade, water and washrooms for every park but leaves fencing blank.

We never guess. A park is only marked fenced when a source says so, and that source is named on its page.

Corrections

Every park page has a "Suggest an update" button: tell us whether it's fenced, muddy, has a small-dog pen, or anything else you saw. Each suggestion is checked by a person before it changes the page, and the park's page says where its information came from. (The form is being set up and will appear on park pages shortly.)

Posted signs at the park always win over anything here, and the city's own parks page is the best place to check hours and seasonal rules.

Photos and film

Every image and video here is free or openly licensed. The film on the home page comes fromMixkit under its Free License and Pexelsunder the Pexels License; both allow commercial use. Park photos come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences, and each one is credited with its photographer and licence where it appears.

We only use a photo when its title names the park, so a nearby building never stands in for the park itself. We avoid images where people's faces are visible. Where no suitable photo exists, a park is shown by its actual off-leash outline instead.

Licences

City and regional data is used under each government's Open Government Licence, which requires the credit lines below. Leashless is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these governments.

• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. (City of Vancouver)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – City of Surrey. (City of Surrey)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Burnaby. (City of Burnaby)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Delta. (City of Delta)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Coquitlam. (City of Coquitlam)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Port Moody. (City of Port Moody)
• Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence - City of New Westminster. (City of New Westminster)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Maple Ridge. (City of Maple Ridge)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - North Vancouver. (District of North Vancouver)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Metro Vancouver. (Metro Vancouver)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – Regional District of Central Okanagan. (Regional District of Central Okanagan)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Kamloops. (City of Kamloops)
• Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence – City of Penticton. (City of Penticton)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. (City of Revelstoke)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. (City of Cranbrook)
• Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – District of Summerland. (District of Summerland)

Park data from OpenStreetMap is © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under theOpen Database Licence. Map tiles by OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap. Clinic details come from each clinic's own website, and venue dog policies from each venue's own website or its city.