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Burn Restrictions Cover All Of Shenandoah National Park

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By NPT Staff - November 22nd, 2016

Continued dry conditions have prompted Shenandoah National Park officials in Virginia to expand fire restrictions to cover the entire park.

Officials said that due to exceptionally dry conditions and the potential for extreme fire behavior, the restrictions will be in effect until the park receives sufficient precipitation to lift fire restrictions.

  • Building, attending, maintaining or using an open fire anywhere within the boundaries of Shenandoah National Park is prohibited. This ban includes:
  • All wood, charcoal, coal or other solid-fuel open air fires. 
  • Fires in grates, grills, rings or pits in campgrounds, picnic areas, shelters and huts. 

Note that wood, charcoal, coal or other solid-fuel fires are always prohibited in the backcountry of the entire park. The use of pressurized gas-fuel camp stoves and backpacking stoves will be allowed in Dundo Picnic Grounds and in the backcountry. However, the use of liquid-fuel or wood-fuel portable stoves is prohibited.

Smoking will be permitted only inside vehicles and at established paved or gravel parking areas. Smoking will be prohibited on all trails.

Shenandoah National Park and surrounding lands are significantly dry and the potential for wildland fires is high. The fire restrictions will remain in effect until conditions improve with significant rain or snow over time, decreasing the fire hazard.

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