Virginia Administrative Code › Title 4 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION › Chapter 36 - STANDARD FEES FOR USE OF DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION FACILITIES, PROGRAMS, AND SERVICES › Section 4VAC5-36-50 - Parking and launch fees

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
PARKING FEES (NONTAXABLE)
BASE RATE
VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
WEEKDAYS
WEEKENDS
WEEKDAYS
WEEKENDS
Daily Parking for Passenger Vehicles: Applies to
							 cars, trucks, vans (up to 8 passengers), and motorcycles.
All parks unless listed below.
$5.00
$6.00
$3.00
$4.00
Chippokes, Douthat, Fairy Stone, Grayson Highlands,
							 Kiptopeke, Mason Neck, New River Trail, Sky Meadows, Smith Mountain Lake
$6.00
$7.00
$4.00
$5.00
All days excluding holidays and prime-season
							 weekends: Claytor Lake, First Landing, Lake Anna, Leesylvania, Pocahontas,
							 Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. Shenandoah River, Westmoreland, Staunton
							 River
$6.00
$7.00
$4.00
$5.00
Holidays and prime-season weekends only: Claytor
							 Lake, First Landing, Lake Anna, Leesylvania, Pocahontas, Raymond R. "Andy"
							 Guest Jr. Shenandoah River, Westmoreland, Staunton River
$9.00
$9.00
$7.00
$7.00
York River Croaker Landing/Pier Area (also requires
							 boat launch fee for all vehicles)
$5.00
$5.00
$3.00
$3.00
Daily Parking for High-Occupancy Vehicles: Applies to
							 cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans (with 9 or more passengers).
All parks unless listed below.
$10.00
$10.00
$8.00
$8.00
Chippokes, Claytor Lake, Douthat, Fairy Stone, First
							 Landing, Grayson Highlands, Kiptopeke, Lake Anna, Leesylvania, Mason Neck, New
							 River Trail, Pocahontas, Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. Shenandoah River, Sky
							 Meadows, Smith Mountain Lake, Westmoreland, Staunton River
$12.00
$12.00
$10.00
$10.00
Horse Trailer Parking Fee covers up to two horses in
							 the same trailer (also requires vehicle parking fee). All parks unless listed
							 below.
$3.00 per trailer
$3.00 per trailer
$3.00 per trailer
$3.00 per trailer
Lake Anna
$4.00 per trailer
$4.00 per trailer
$4.00 per trailer
$4.00 per trailer
Surcharge for additional horse in same trailer beyond
							 the first two horses.
$2.00 per horse
$2.00 per horse
$2.00 per horse
$2.00 per horse
Other Trailer Parking Fee: Applies to other trailers
							 not covered by camping, horse trailer, and boat launch fee. (Add to daily
							 parking fee.)
$2.00 per trailer
$2.00 per trailer
$2.00 per trailer
$2.00 per trailer
Daily Bus Parking: All Seasons. Applies to vehicles
							 with 16 or more passenger capacity.
All parks unless listed below.
$10
$10
$10
$10
Claytor Lake, Hungry Mother, Leesylvania, Mason Neck,
							 New River Trail
$12
$12
$12
$12
First Landing, Kiptopeke, Lake Anna, Pocahontas,
							 Westmoreland
$15
$15
$15
$15
Natural Area Preserve Parking Fees for any Vehicle:
							 The department may charge these fees at any Natural Area Preserve.
$2.00
$2.00
$2.00
$2.00
BASE RATE
VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
Grayson Highlands Backpacker Parking.
$12 up to 3 days
$10 up to 3 days
WEEKDAYS
WEEKENDS
WEEKDAYS
WEEKENDS
Boat Launch Fees: Required to use park boat ramps on
							 bodies of water where motorboats are permitted. Required for all vehicles using
							 York River Croaker Landing/Pier Area. The fee is normally added to the parking
							 fee to create a combined park/launch payment. When a vehicle is only dropping
							 off or retrieving a nonmotorized boat or a boater and does not pay the parking
							 fee, the $3.00 launch fee is required.
Daily Launch Fees: All Seasons
All parks unless listed below.
$3.00
$3.00
$3.00
$3.00
Claytor Lake
$2.00
$2.00
$2.00
$2.00
First Landing, Kiptopeke (with Marine Fishing
							 License), Lake Anna
$4.00
$4.00
$4.00
$4.00
Kiptopeke (without Marine Fishing License),
							 Leesylvania
$8.00
$8.00
$8.00
$8.00
Surcharge for second boat on same trailer: jet
							 ski
$2.00
$2.00
$2.00
$2.00
Overnight parking at boat launch: where
							 available
$10
$10
$10
$10
Camper's Boat Launch Fee Kiptopeke: Does not apply if
							 camper parks trailer at campsite.
$3.00
$3.00
$3.00
$3.00
Boat Tournament Fee for Fishing Tournaments:
							 Registration fee is based on the number of boats registered and is
							 nonrefundable regardless of number that actually participates. This fee is in
							 addition to the applicable daily launch fee.
No charge
$2.00 per boat
No charge
$2.00 per boat
Annual Parking Fees:
FEE
Naturally Yours Parking Passport: 12-month from date
							 of purchase admission and parking pass to all state parks.
$66
Senior Naturally Yours Parking Passport: See
							 Naturally Yours Parking Passport above.
$36
Golden Disability Pass: Available to persons with
							 disabilities as verified by U.S. Social Security Administration's (SSA)
							 "Benefit Verification Letter." Pass remains in effect unless SSA withdraws
							 eligibility.
No Charge
Disabled Veterans Passport
Admission, parking, and launch pass to all state
							 parks, plus 50% discount on camping fees, swimming fees, shelter rentals, and
							 department equipment rentals when provided by the department. Where equipment
							 rentals are provided by private concessionaires, this passport does not
							 apply.
The passport shall be issued upon request to a
							 veteran of the armed forces of the United States with a letter from the U.S.
							 Department of Veterans Affairs, or from the military service that discharged
							 the veteran, certifying that such veteran has a service-connected disability
							 rating of 100%. This passport coverage shall be valid for as long as that
							 determination by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs remains in
							 effect.
No Charge
Annual Park/Launch/Equestrian
							 Fees:
Naturally Yours Passport for Boaters and Equestrians:
							 12-month from date of purchase admission, parking, and launch pass to all state
							 parks.
$167
Senior Naturally Yours Passport for Boaters and
							 Equestrians: Annual permit for all parks including Leesylvania.
$133
Leesylvania Annual Overnight Boating/Parking
							 Pass.
$74
Disabled Visitor Annual Boat Launch Pass (in addition
							 to disabled tags).
$48
Special Event Fees:
EVENT FEE
Standard Special Event Parking Fee: Applies to all
							 parks and events that utilize parking fees unless noted below.
$10 per vehicle
Community Event Fee: May be used by any park as a
							 condition of a Special Use Permit for a community event provided by a nonprofit
							 group or organization or government agency or entity.
$1.00 per vehicle
Sky Meadows: Strawberry Festival
Advance payment
$20 per vehicle
Day of Event
$25 per vehicle
Sky Meadows: Extended Hours Special Event: for events
							 that take place after park hours such as Astronomy Night, Candlelight Tours,
							 etc.
$5.00 per vehicle
Grayson Highlands Fall Festival. Hungry Mother Arts
							 and Crafts Festival
$6.00 per vehicle
Claytor Lake Arts and Crafts Festival
$5.00 per vehicle with canned food donation on
							 designated day
$10 per vehicle
Fairy Stone: Super Country B-99 Fun Day Event
$1.99 per vehicle
Kiptopeke: Eastern Shore Birding Festival
Parking Fee waived to registered festival guests;
							 otherwise standard fees apply
Smith Mountain Lake: special park/launch rate for
							 boaters participating in fishing tournaments if the tournament sponsor has also
							 rented the Tournament Headquarters Building.
$5.00 per vehicle/ boat combination
Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. Shenandoah River:
							 Riverfest Event
$8.00 per vehicle
Standard Special Event Per Person Entrance Fee:
							 Applies to all parks and events that utilize per person admission fees unless
							 noted below.
$4.00 per adult
$3.00 per child, 6 through 12 years
Children under 6 free
Sailor's Creek Battlefield: Battle of Sailor's Creek
							 Reenactment
$10 maximum per vehicle
$50 per bus (16 passenger +)
Chippokes Plantation Steam and Gas Engine Show
$5.00 per person
Children under 12 free
Chippokes Plantation Christmas
$5.00 per person
Chippokes Pork, Peanut & Pine Festival
$5.00 per person
Children under 13 free
Grayson Highlands Wayne C. Henderson Music
							 Festival
$10 per person
Children under 12 free
Natural Tunnel Special Event Parking Fee
$2.00 per person
$6.00 per vehicle
Occoneechee Pow Wow
$5.00 per person (13 years and older)
$3.00 per child, 3 through 12 years
$3.00 Seniors (62 and over)
Children under 3 free
Occoneechee Pow Wow School Groups
$4.00 per student Teachers and Chaperones free
Pocahontas: 500 attendees in increments of 500
							 people
$500
Notes on parking fees:
1. Weekend rates apply on Memorial Day,
				Fourth of July, and Labor Day holidays.
2. Except as otherwise noted, boat launching
				shall be free for up to one boat per vehicle (maximum of two vehicles) per
				campsite, cabin, lodge, camping cabin, travel trailer, or camping
				lodge.
3. Parking fees are waived
				for any vehicle displaying disabled license plates or temporary disabled
				parking identification issued by any state or the federal government. However,
				the fee for any additional types of trailers, the boat launch fee or the
				portion of any combined parking-launching fee that applies to boat launching
				shall be collected from such vehicles. Additionally, the price for annual
				passes and lifetime passes that include boat launching for qualified disabled
				individuals shall be calculated by subtracting the applicable parking pass fee
				from the park/launch pass fee.
4.
				Parking fees are waived for any vehicle occupied solely by students and/or
				teachers and/or assisting personnel participating in an official activity of a
				bona fide school, home school, or institution of higher learning. Parks may
				require that individuals in vehicles other than those marked as a school bus
				verify their official activity by letter from the school or approved field trip
				form, or in the case of home school groups, proof of home school status such as
				current ID card from a state or national home school organization (HEAV, HSLDA,
				etc.) or a copy of the letter from the school district that acknowledges
				"Notice of Intent" to home school for that school year.
5. Parking fees are waived for official
				vehicles of federal, state, and local governments while on official business;
				vehicles making deliveries to the park; contractor and business vehicles
				performing work in the park; and emergency vehicles while conducting official
				business, including training.
6.
				Parking fees are waived for park employees during time of employment, including
				family and household members of staff occupying staff residences, visitors to
				staff residences, and park volunteers entering the park to perform volunteer
				duties.
7. Parking fees may be
				waived for vehicles conducting research or collecting activities provided such
				waiver is included in the language of the Research and Collection Permit as
				required in
				4VAC5-30-50.
8. The period covered by a daily parking fee
				shall be midnight to midnight. Park guests utilizing overnight parking when and
				where available (e.g., backpackers, overnight fishermen, etc.) will be required
				to pay the applicable daily parking fee for each calendar day that their
				vehicle is in the parking lot (partial days included).
9. Annual permits shall be valid for 12
				months from the date of purchase, unless otherwise noted.
10. Parking fees are waived for visitors
				entering the park for the sole purpose of dining at the park restaurant at
				Douthat and Hungry Mother State Parks.
11. Parking fees are waived at state parks
				for participants in Walk for Parks, Fall River Renaissance, Envirothons, March
				for Parks, Operation Spruce-Up Day, Stewardship Virginia, National Trails Day,
				and other park-sanctioned public service events as approved by the
				director.
12. Daily parking fees
				are reduced to $1.00 for vehicles occupied by participants in fund-raising
				events sponsored by nonprofit organizations (Walk-A-Thons, etc.) provided the
				sponsor has obtained a special use permit from the park that contains
				provisions for the identification of participants in the event.
13. Parking fees shall be waived for persons
				using park roads to gain legal access to their private residence and guests to
				such residences and for vehicles passing through, but not stopping in, a park
				on a public roadway.
14. Revenue
				collected from special event parking and/or admission fees may be divided
				between the park and the event sponsor if so designated and approved in the
				special event permit following a determination made by the director that the
				revenue split is in the benefit of the Commonwealth.
15. Annual Park/Launch/Equestrian passes
				cover the park entrance or parking fee for up to two horses in the same horse
				trailer or other allowable trailers. Annual and Lifetime parking-only passes do
				not include trailers.
16. Parking
				fees are waived for service vehicles such as tow trucks when entering the park
				to service a visitor vehicle.
17.
				Parking fees are waived for visitors entering the park to attend a performance
				by a U.S. military band if this is a required condition for the band's
				performance.
18. Parking fees are
				included in the rental fees for meeting facilities, up to the capacity of the
				facility and provided that this waiver of fee is included in the rental
				agreement for the facility.
19.
				Parking fees are waived for a period of up to 15 minutes for persons entering
				the park to deposit materials in community recycling collection
				containers.
20. Parking fees are
				waived for vehicles occupied entirely by persons attending fee interpretive
				programs.
21. Annual parking passes
				that do not include boat launch require payment of daily launch fee if
				launching a boat at any park or for all vehicles using Croaker Landing/Pier
				Area at York River State Park.
22.
				Annual parking pass holders are not guaranteed the parking privileges of the
				pass should parking places be unavailable.
23. Parking fees are waived at Mason Neck
				during the park's annual Elizabeth Hartwell Eagle Festival.
24. The payment of a parking fee at one park
				shall be applied to parking at any state park on the same day provided that the
				visitor supplies evidence of the paid parking fee.
25. Annual passes are issued to the purchaser
				and members of the same household and may not be transferred. Improper transfer
				or use may result in revocation of the pass without refund.
26. Parking fees are waived at all state
				parks for veterans on Veterans Day, November 11, of each year.
27. Parking fees are waived at all state
				parks on January 1 of each year.
28. Holidays are defined as Memorial Day,
				Fourth of July, and Labor Day, and prime season is the Saturday immediately
				prior to Memorial Day through the Sunday immediately prior to Labor
				Day.
Statutory Authority: § 10.1-104 of the Code of
					 Virginia.