Forsyth County, GA Curfew Laws: Park Curfew (2026)

Forsyth County Code of Ordinances section 54-6, part of Chapter 54's Article II on hours, vehicles and parking, gives the parks and recreation director sole authority to set the hours county parks and recreation facilities are open to the public. Those hours must be posted three ways: on the parks and recreation department website, inside each park, and at the entrance of every recreation facility, and the code directs the public to observe them. Unless the parks director or a designee has issued a permit, entering or remaining in a park or recreation facility, or leaving a vehicle there, outside the posted hours is itself a violation of Chapter 54.

The restriction does not apply to park rangers, sheriff's deputies, or other authorized officials and employees, who may come and go regardless of posted hours to perform their duties. Park or recreation facility is defined broadly under section 54-1 to include all county-owned, leased or managed land, buildings, lakes, ponds, streams and swimming pools operated by the Parks and Recreation Department, so the after-hours rule follows the property, not just marked park boundaries. Enforcement runs through the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, the Forsyth County Code Compliance Department, and Forsyth County Park Rangers under section 54-3, and any of them may issue a citation, a warning, or simply order a violator to leave the property. section 36-1-20, the state law capping county ordinance penalties.