Dog-friendly Porthcurno

Three miles east from Porthcurno over the Treen Cliff to a working fishing cove, two hours with 170 metres of climbing and the turquoise water of Pedn Vounder below you most of the way. Start at the Porthcurno beach car park, which also serves the Minack Theatre and empties and fills with performances; the Treen car park is an alternative halfway along. Most stiles are fine although two stone ones have a bar at the top that some dogs need help over, there are horses and other livestock grazing the clifftop, and the drop off the Treen Cliff path is severe and unfenced.

Five and a half miles west round the last corner of the peninsula, three hours with 300 metres of climbing, passing the Minack Theatre and a holy well before the coastwatch lookout on Gwennap Head. It starts at Porthcurno and runs out past Porthchapel, where the stream crosses the sand; Porthgwarra has its own small car park and cafe at roughly the halfway point. One stile has a gap a very large dog will not fit through, though a gate alongside solves it; Porthchapel allows dogs all year, Porthcurno and Porthgwarra do not in the peak weeks, and Gwennap Head is high, unfenced and exposed.