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I agree with the others, I personally would avoid lands end - its too touristy and expensive.  Sennen Cove is beautiful as is the lizard, much more the rugged quiet coastline than lands end.  Chapel porth near St Agnes is nice, there is a nice cliff top walk (with free parking!) along the coastal path to the beach.  (steep though).  Perranporth is a lovely big beach but will be busy and expensive to park - nice pasties though.

Southern cornwall is quite nice aswell, we took our dog on Gorran Haven beach near mevagissey (bear in mind we went in september), Caerhayes beach Near Mevagissey is a national trust beach (with free parking!) and hardly anyone on it.

The best site we have stayed on in cornwall is Trethem Mill near St Mawes - very quiet site with huge meadow onsite for walking the dog and very clean facilites.

Best to check out dog friendly beaches before you go online and as other have said Cornwall is a complete rip off for parking!

Some beaches now allow dogs on early in the morning and after 7pm.  Gwithian is a example and if the tide is out you can walk for 4 miles....and then walk 4 miles back....enough beach for any dog!  There is another beach near Lealant (St Ives area) and this allows dogs at any time and it is virtually free of bathers.  It is one of my favourite beaches as given a sunny day (some hope!) the water looks like the Caribbean and there is acres of sand, it's really beautiful and totally uncommercial.  It's popular with dog walkers in the know, but most locals without dogs can't be bothered to walk there.

I've talked to our local dog warden and he isn't too impressed with the way the councilors pass these rules without any thought for common sense! We need to be off of our beach at 7am, but I'm lucky if I can get there by then! We are basically banned from many of our local beaches from Easter (March) till October, thanks to the council knowing what is best for us....how nice of them.

I'm not sure that the situation is any better in the rest of the country, we're of to south Wales in September and the situation seems the same there.

AK

Don't remember Lands End being any great shakes at all tbh.  Much rather visit some of the beaches and St Ives, Mousehole etc.  Parking is extortionate throughout the county.

If you are going Bank Holiday week expect it to be heaving everywhere!

Ali

Quote: Originally posted by lou bee on 16/8/2008

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Hi, sitting in my tent in Cornwall with a glass of wine testing out the campsite WIFI (kids are asleep , book finished!) It is very wet here so bring your wellies and a coat and warm socks!! Its still very beautiful though & having looked around other sites whilst here (I'm very nosey) I can definately reccomend our site Tregarton Park its stood up to the weather very well (no mud here unlike others) is well looked after and the pool is as warm as a bath, kids have been in even on wettest days.
   Also noticed Perranporth beach had lots of dogs on so assume it's allowed.
   Have fun
       Lou

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SNAP! I'm sitting typing this on Tregarton too!We arrived last Saturday in the pouring rain but were soon set up and comfy inside with a cuppa thanks to dear Robert doing our pitching for us. They are true stars on this site!

We were here at the same two weeks in August last year when we were fortunate enough to only have 3 wet days.......hmph......reckon this one will be lucky to have three DRYBut to we care??? Nah, love it here and in Cornwall in general.

Pooch is with us for his first time and he's loving it too, just a shame his introduction to camping has been soooooo soggy. Thank heavens we're on a hard standing pitch coz it does restrict the amount of mud walked in, just a tad.

Actually spotted a teeny bit of red in the sky tonight......fingers crossed for a better day tomorrow.