For everyone's enjoyment, please observe the following rules when visiting a Burlington city park:

• Please place all refuse, garbage, or other trash in receptacles provided.  Household or commercial rubbish or garbage may not be left.
• Glass bottles are prohibited from city parks except at North Beach Campground.
• Vending or soliciting is not allowed unless licensed by the Parks and Recreation Commission.
• An individual wishing to perform in a park must first obtain a "Parks Entertainer's License" and pay the appropriate fee required.
• Camping is prohibited in any city park, except at an area specifically designated for this purpose.
• Fires may be built in grills only.  Portable stoves are authorized in designated picnic areas only on fireplaces, or grills, not upon picnic tables or benches.  Do not leave fires unattended.  Coals should be placed in charcoal dumps where provided or removed from the park.  Do not dump hot coals in trash receptacles.
• Firearms, air rifles, gas weapons, slingshot, bow and arrows, firecrackers and explosives are not allowed in the parks.
• Please keep all motor vehicles on roads or parking lots maintained for vehicular traffic.  Speed limit in all parks is fifteen (15) mph.  Joy riding within a park is not allowed.
• Radios or tape players may not be played loudly enough to disturb other park users.  Amplified music requires approval by the Parks and Recreation Commission.
• A group of 20 or more persons who wish to use a park facility must obtain a park special use permit. Reservations for team or group activities must be authorized by the Parks and Recreation Commission or its representative.  Park use permits are available through the Department.  For information, call (802)865-7247.
• Tennis and basketball courts are for court play only and other activities, such as in-line skating and skateboarding, are prohibited.
• Court play at neighborhood parks (Appletree, Baird, Lakeside, Pomeroy, Roosevelt, Schmanska and Smalley) is prohibited from 10pm-7am.
• Dogs are permitted in city parks but must be kept on a leash at all times (Note: Burlington has two designated off-leash areas, one along the Waterfront in the Urban Reserve and one at Starr Farm Park.)  Owners are required to remove dog waste and deposit in in an appropriate container.  Dogs are prohibited, even if on a leash, from the designated swimming beaches and their adjacent picnic areas at Leddy, North Beach and Oakledge Parks.
• The possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited in City parks except for the following locations: Oakledge, Calahan, North Beach and Leddy Parks.  At these parks the following guidelines must be observed:
  • Alcohol may only be consumed between the hours of 7am and 9pm.
  • Possession and consumption of alcohol is prohibited on all roadways, sidewalks or parking lots.
  • No such possession or consumption is from beer kegs, unless prior approval by the Parks and Recreation Commission or its representative.
  • Selling, serving, furnishing alcoholic beverages, inclusive of keg beer, requires a Vermont State Caterer's Liquor Permit.