Parks Rules & Hours

Hamilton County Parks Rules & Regulations

The Hamilton County Parks exist for your health, leisure and enjoyment. To help ensure a positive experience for all park users, please adhere to the following rules and regulations:

• Organized youth and adult events, practices, runs/walks, specialized activities and events are required to obtain a permit
• Youth and adult sports are not permitted at Coxhall Gardens.
• No golfing allowed
• No hunting or discharge of a firearm
• All pets must be on a physical leash and owners must collect and dispose of animal waste caused by their pet
• No person shall release wildlife, pets or any animals within any park.
• Please put all trash in trash receptacles.
• No swimming or wading permitted, except in designated areas.
• No open campfire in any park except in areas which are expressly designated by signage.
• No soliciting on park grounds.
• No alcoholic beverages or non-prescription drugs permitted (except alcohol by permit only).
• Smoking allowed only in designated areas.
• No person shall operate a motorized vehicle, bicycle, or other non-motorized vehicle within any park at a speed in excess of fifteen (15) miles per hour.
• No person shall operate a remote control watercraft, model car, maned or unmanned balloon, or model airplane within a Park, without a permit issued
• No person shall operate a drone below the altitude of four hundred (400) feet above the land surface of any park.
• No person shall deface, destroy, or damage any building, structure, signs, or other improvement within a park.
• No person shall discharge fireworks within a park, unless approved by the Park Director or Deputy Director for an official park sponsored or approved event.
• No excavating or attempt to excavate any land within a Park for any purpose other than approved maintenance or construction without first obtaining a permit
• No removal of plants, artifacts, rocks, wood, or any other material from the Park, unless such removal is expressly authorized and permitted
• No person shall park any vehicle or allow their vehicle to be parked in a designated No Parking area or in any part of the Park, which is not improved for parking with stone or pavement. The Hamilton County Parks & Recreation Department shall have the authority to designate and place signage to designate “No Parking” areas.
• No person shall operate any motorized vehicle on any walking or equestrian trail within a park unless said person has been issued a current Hamilton County Parks and Recreation Department Handicap Permit.
• No person or individual shall be permitted to use gas motors on any lake or pond within a park, without a permit issued by the parks department.
• No damaging any tree, plant or other vegetation located within a park.
• No installation or placement of any sign in any park other than signs approved by the park department.