Pinal County, AZ Special Events & Permits: Park Event Permits (2026)

Section 16-25 of the Code of Ordinances requires a park use permit for eligible nonprofit, government, private, or commercial uses of a county park, which includes facilities like West Pinal Park. A nonprofit group only needs the permit when its activity falls outside the park's normal activity design or requires exclusive use of a specific park area; a commercial operator must obtain the permit in advance for any commercial use at all. The department negotiates the permit fee based on the cost of administering the activity and protecting the park and its visitors, following the county fee schedule where one applies, and may require a commercial permittee to pay the county a negotiated share of gross receipts capped at 20 percent.

The department can also require a damage and clean-up deposit, a certificate of insurance naming the county as additionally insured, adequate medical, sanitary, and security services, and, for a permittee solicited to provide a service or event, a performance and payment bond. It may attach conditions to any activity to protect the park and keep it available to the public, and it can refuse an application that conflicts with a park's management objectives or threatens health, safety, or the park itself. Competing nonprofit requests for the same space are handled first-come, first-served; competing commercial proposals are solicited informally and awarded to the concessionaire offering the county the best revenue or recreation value, provided that operator has no history of poor performance on past permits.

No permit is needed if the activity is already covered by an existing use permit or concessions agreement. A permit decision can be appealed to the Board of Supervisors, and applications are available from an authorized department representative.