Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 571 - Natural Resource Commission › Title VI - Parks and Recreation Areas › Chapter 61 - State Parks, Recreation Areas, and State Forest Camping › Rule 571-61.8 - Rental Facilities

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
(1)
Procedures for rental facility registration.
a. Registrations for all rental facilities
				must be in the name of a person 18 years of age or older who will be present at
				the facility for the full term of the reservation.
b. Rental stay requirements for cabins and
				yurts.
(1) Except as provided in subparagraphs
				61.8(1)
"b"
(2) and 61.8(1)
"b"
(3), cabins
				and yurts may be reserved for a minimum of two nights throughout the entire
				season.
(2) Cabins and yurts must
				be reserved for a minimum of three nights (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights)
				for the national Memorial Day holiday weekend, the Fourth of July holiday
				weekend when the Fourth of July occurs on a Monday, and the national Labor Day
				holiday weekend.
(3) The department
				may require cabins with restroom and kitchen facilities to be reserved for a
				minimum stay of one week (Friday p.m. to Friday a.m.) during the time period
				beginning with the Friday of the national Memorial Day holiday weekend and
				ending with the Thursday after the national Labor Day holiday.
(4) All unreserved cabins, all unreserved
				yurts and the group camp must be rented for a minimum of two nights on a
				walk-in first-come, first-served basis. No walk-in rentals will be permitted
				after 6 p.m.
(5) Reservations or
				walk-in rentals for more than a two-week stay will not be accepted for any
				facility.
c. Persons
				renting cabins, yurts or the group camp facility must check in at or after 4
				p.m. on the first day of the rental period. Check-out time is 11 a.m. or
				earlier on the last day of the rental period.
d. Except by arrangement for late arrival
				with the park staff, no cabin, yurt or group camp reservation will be held past
				6 p.m. on the first night of the reservation period if the person reserving the
				facility does not arrive. When arrangements for late arrival have been made,
				the person must appear prior to the park's closing time established by Iowa
				Code section 461A.46 or access will not be
				permitted to the facility until 8 a.m. the following day. Arrangements must be
				made with the park staff if next-day arrival is to be later than 9
				a.m.
e. Except at parks or
				recreation areas with camping cabins or yurts, no tents or other camping units
				are permitted for overnight occupancy in the designated cabin area. One small
				tent shall be allowed at each cabin or yurt in the designated areas and is
				subject to the occupancy requirements of paragraph 61.3(3)
"b."
f. Open
				shelters and beach house open shelters that are not reserved are available on a
				first-come, first-served basis. If the open shelters with kitchenettes are not
				reserved, the open shelter portions of these facilities are available on a
				first-come, first-served basis.
g.
				Except by arrangement with the park staff in charge of the area, persons
				renting a lodge, shelter, or beach house open shelter facility and all guests
				shall vacate the facility by 10 p.m.