Coatham Sands
Photograph: Coatham Sands by Mike Quinn
Coatham Sands is the long open beach running west from the Regent cinema past the dunes towards South Gare, and it falls entirely outside the summer exclusion zone, which stops at the Regent. That makes it the beach to use in Redcar between 1 May and 30 September, when the town frontage east of the cinema is closed to dogs and this stretch is not. There is no seasonal ban and no lead requirement here at any point in the year, only the borough-wide duty to keep a dog supervised and under control and to carry the means to pick up. Park on Majuba Road by the leisure centre or in the Coatham seafront car park; walk west and it empties out fast, and at low tide the flats run for the best part of a mile before the Gare breakwater.
