Lynn's parks and its roughly 2,200-acre Lynn Woods Reservation are open sunrise to sunset and closed at night. After-hours presence is trespassing, enforced by park rangers and Lynn police.
Lynn's public parks run on daytime hours and close after dark. Lynn Woods Reservation, the roughly 2,200-acre municipal forest that ranks among the largest city parks in the country, is open sunrise to sunset and closed at night to protect the woods and visitors. Neighborhood parks, playgrounds, and ponds keep similar dawn-to-dusk or posted evening hours set by the Lynn Park Commission and administered by Parks and Recreation. Posted signs at each entrance control the exact hours. Remaining in a closed park, or leaving a vehicle there overnight, is treated as trespassing and can bring a citation and towing.
Park rangers and Lynn police enforce closing hours. Staying in a park or Lynn Woods after dark is trespassing under Massachusetts law, MGL c.266 §120, drawing a citation and removal, and a vehicle left overnight can be ticketed or towed.
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