Weston, FL Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

Section 100.02(F), part of the Prohibited Activities list for Weston's Public Parks and Recreational Facilities, is the City's outdoor-fire and cooking rule: no Person may start or maintain any outdoor fire except in designated areas, fires are limited to cooking on City-owned affixed shelter grills, no ground fires are permitted, and no Person starting or maintaining a fire in a Public Park may leave the area without first extinguishing the fire with water. Read together, those four sentences set a complete rule for anyone bringing a smoker, grill, or campfire idea to a Weston park: cooking fires are allowed only at the fixed grills the City itself has installed under park shelters, a portable smoker or a ground-level fire pit is not a designated area no matter where it is placed, and whoever lights a fire, even at an approved grill, is personally responsible for dousing it with water before walking away.

The same subsection sits alongside § 100.02(A), which already bars bringing flammable liquid into a park except what is used for a barbecue or carried in a vehicle's fuel tank, showing the Code anticipated backyard-style grilling equipment and built the water-extinguishing and designated-grill requirements specifically around it. Because Chapter 100 does not carry its own fine schedule, a violation of the fire and cooking rule falls back on the Code's general penalty at § 2.99: a fine of up to $1,000 for a first offense, an escalating fine for a repeat violation, or up to 60 days imprisonment, or both.

Broward Sheriff's Office fire-rescue personnel, who serve Weston under contract, and City Code Compliance officers are positioned to enforce the ban, particularly during dry-season burn restrictions when an unattended ground fire poses the greatest wildfire risk near the Everglades edge.