If you’re based in Brisbane or the surrounding area, we have some great dog walks that will keep you and your pet fit and healthy as you can do these walks together in the beautiful outdoors and fresh air!

Walk 1: Brisbane CBD, South Bank Loop  

Where to start – Park somewhere below the William Jolly Bridge and take your dog on the Brisbane City SouthBank loop. This lovely riverside stroll has plenty of shade trees and runs along the southside of the Brisbane River below the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, under Victoria Bridge and on through South Bank Parklands.  

Follow the bougainvillea arch out at Siddon St, around the Maritime Museum and across the Goodwill Bridge into the campus of Queensland University of Technology. Turn left and walk the cycleway underneath the freeway.  

After passing the historic Commissariat stores building, walk up to a crossing on the Victoria Bridge or stroll down George St and then take the Kurilpa pedestrian bridge back over to the GoMA area.  

For a longer walk – explore the City Botanic Gardens after crossing the Goodwill Bridge before resuming the loop. 

Walk 2: Victoria Point Park 

The park at Victoria Point is a good place to start a loop walk around this quiet bayside suburb. From the Point, walk down to the Air Sea Rescue base and at the end of White St, join the track along the shoreline around to Point Halloran.  

Walk south (with wetlands on your right) down Point O’Halloran Rd, then turn right up Orana St to the car park of the Eprapah Conservation Reserve.  

Explore the tracks or turn left past a lagoon on the alignment for School Rd, which eventually turns into a real suburban road. Walk down to Colburn Ave, turn left again and walk back to the Point.

Walk 3: Karawatha Forest Walk, Logan City

There are many trails for your dogs to walk on-leash in the Karawatha Forest, but here are two of our recommendations that both start at the lush green Illaweena Picnic area.  

1. Melaleuca Circuit – This easy trail starts at one end of the bridge at the picnic area and quickly propels the walker through melaleuca and scribbly gum groves and includes a brief jaunt along a boardwalk raised above a lagoon, only to be back at the start about 20 mins later.  

2. Wild May Trail and attached Lagoon Trail – At a little over an hour, this is the longest of the two water walks. Three paths can be narrow and semi-overgrown especially alongside the lagoons, so bring closed walking shoes.

Walk 4: JC Slaughter Falls, Mount Coot-tha 

This winding walk through native bushland to the summit of Mount Coot-tha is a perfect way to exercise your pet and enjoy one of Brisbane’s most spectacular panoramic views.  This beautiful bushy gorge with grassy creek banks for picnics and barbecues offers two dog walking tracks; the Aboriginal Art Trail and the Summit Track. 

1. Aboriginal Art Trail – “A short easy hike of about 20 minutes, via a dirt track that loops through the bush and contains several primitive arrangements of rocks and sticks in lieu of prehistoric cave paintings. The piece de resistance is a jutting timber platform from which to view a cascade of rocks in the dry season and the impressive Slaughter Falls in the wet,” Australian Dog Lover blog.   

2. Summit Track – “For the more intrepid hiker the Art Trail links to this Summit walk, a steep-at-times 2 km jaunt via scrubby open eucalypt forest to the top of Mt-Coot-tha – where the reward for effort is Brisbane’s most panoramic hilltop view and a refreshment at the kiosk. The return trip to and from JC Slaughter will take about 1 to 1.5 hours. Water stations for your pooch can be found along the trail from the base to the top,” Austrlian Dog Lover blog.  

Entrance:  The Summit Track Walk starts at the far end of the JC Slaughter Falls picnic area (bottom of the car park). JC Slaughter Falls Rd is off Sir Samuel Griffiths Drive. 

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