Day Use Area Rules
- 📜 All park visitors are subject to day-use area rules. All posted signs must be obeyed.
- 🎫 Passes must be displayed on all vehicles.
- 🚸 The speed limit in Columbus Park is 7 1/2 mph on all roads. Please watch for children.
- ⛔️ All Columbus Park roads must always remain unblocked. No parking signs are posted in many areas. Please pay attention or risk being towed at your expense.
- 🅿️ Parking is in designated areas only. Vehicles with boat trailers are parked on the hillside; please check with park staff for directions.
- 🍳 Rental kitchens are available from 9 am-6 pm. All waterfront beach access areas and playgrounds close at 8:30 pm or Sunset, whichever comes first. This applies to all-day guests, including the use of boat launches.
- 👶 Children must be supervised at all times.
- 🚫 No water balloons or plastic/metal confetti.
- 🚫 Dogs/Pets can no longer accompany Day-Use Guests into Columbus Park.
- 🚳 Glass bottles/bikes are not permitted on any of the beach areas of the park.
- ⚓️ Dock at boat launch is first come, first serve. However, this dock is also meant to be used for loading and unloading purposes and to tie up while you park your vehicle.
- 🐟 The beach area between the launch and the creek is not a parking area for watercraft or a picnic area. This is a protected salmon creek; please leave it undisturbed.
- 🛥️ All watercraft over five mph must stay 200 feet away from the shoreline…this includes the boat launch, the swim buoy ropes, and the docks. Watercraft operators who don’t follow this Thurston County Regulation risk getting asked to leave Columbus Park without a refund. Maximum lake speed is 45mph (11 am-8 pm or dusk, whichever comes first) – shoreline to 200 feet is a maximum of five mph at all times (no wake).