The Stray is a long area of public parkland in the centre of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, comprising 200 acres (81 ha) of contiguous open land linking the spa town's curative springs and wells.

The contiguous area of land, not all of which is officially designated part of The Stray, forms an approximately U-shaped belt from the Cenotaph on the north west point of the U, down the A61 road, along a broader southern belt of fields, enclosing the building of Church Square, and up to the north east tip of the U at The Granby.

A variation was granted for the Tour de France in 2014,[5] but proposals in 2016 to relax the restrictions permanently met opposition and were abandoned.

For example, at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 the people of Harrogate roasted an ox for the occasion and drank 500 imperial gallons (2,300 L; 600 US gal) of beer.

During World War II trenches were dug on The Stray in fear that German planes might use the open land as a runway.