Parker, CO Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

Section 6.06.070 excepts several categories of outdoor cooking and flame equipment from the Chapter 6.06 open-fire ban while a Stage 1 restriction is in effect. Fires contained in liquid-fueled or gas-fueled stoves, grills, fire pits or similar appliances are exempt outright, as are fires in fireplaces and wood-burning stoves inside buildings. Small recreational fires are exempt too: at developed picnic sites in a fixed, permanent metal or steel fire pit (a rock fire ring counts as temporary and does not qualify), with flame lengths no more than 4 feet, or residential charcoal grills, tiki torches, chimineas and other portable fireplaces or patio fire pits, provided a responsible party at least 18 years old supervises.

Those recreational fires may only burn material other than rubbish and are capped at a 3-foot-diameter, 2-foot-high fuel area. If the Emergency Manager elevates to a Stage 2 Fire Ban under Section 6.06.080, the exception list shrinks: only gas- and liquid-fueled appliances, indoor fireplaces and wood stoves, supervised charcoal grills, permitted suppression and explosive-waste burning, and Emergency-Manager-approved professional fireworks displays remain lawful; the picnic-site metal fire pit and tiki-torch exceptions available under Stage 1 drop out entirely.