Best Dog-Friendly Parks & Green Spaces in Calais

A 4-hectare formal English-style park in the heart of Calais-Nord, with mature plane and chestnut trees, formal flower beds, gravel walks, a bandstand, and a small pond. The park is fully fenced and gated, opens at 7:00 and closes at 21:00 in summer. Leashed dogs welcome year-round on the paths.

A 6-hectare landscaped park behind the Hôtel de Ville Flemish-Renaissance belfry, with mature trees, formal lawns, a war memorial garden, a small lake and several First World War German blockhouses preserved in situ (the Calais Town Hall sector was held by German forces until 30 September 1944). Leashed dogs welcome year-round on all paths.

A Grand Site de France labelled chalk-cliff landscape stretching from Cap Blanc-Nez (134 m white chalk headland directly facing the Dover white cliffs across 35 km of Channel water) to Cap Gris-Nez (45 m grey sandstone bluff at the closest point of continental Europe to Britain), with marked GR120 trails, vast unfenced grassland on the clifftop and direct views of the busiest shipping lane on the planet. Leashed dogs welcome year-round on all trails.