Sandhill Fields Polices

Rules and Regulations

PARK WILL OPEN AT DAWN AND WILL CLOSE AT DUSK

Dogs are permitted but must be on a leash and their waste picked up.
Athletic spikes or cleats are to be worn for game competition only. If practicing or free play, participants must wear athletic shoes.

THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ARE PROHIBITED:

Overnight parking
Skateboarding, roller skating, roller blading, and scootering
No bicycles
Motorized vehicles on the trails or fields
Golf
The use and possession of alcohol, illegal drugs, firearms, weapons, tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and vape products
Trespassing and swimming/fishing in any pond or waterway

THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES REQUIRE AUTHORIZATION FROM SANDHILL FIELDS’ ADMINISTRATION:

Sales
Private activities
Use of the facilities after closing hours

All individuals who enter Sandhill Fields and its property assume the responsibility of adhering to these rules and regulations. Violators will be considered trespassers. If you do not follow these rules and regulations, you will be asked to leave the property.

Each individual who enters Sandhill Fields hereby acknowledges that, in using the Facilities, they do so entirely at their own risk and assume the risk of any injury and/or damage while engaging in any physical activity or use of the Facilities. This assumption of risk includes, without limitation, the use of any facility, boardwalk, tot-lot, trails, courts, fields, and parking lots. There is an inherent risk within the sports and recreational activities taking place at our facility, which are presumed to be assumed by each guest and player. If you do not feel comfortable with assuming an inherent risk by being present or participating in such sports or activities, you do have the option to not participate or be present at our facilities.

Please be kind and respectful.

Weather Policy

The decision to open or close fields (or the entire facility) is made by Sandhill Fields management.

Every effort is made to update the fields status on the web site as soon as the status changes, Facebook, and Instagram. Every effort will be made to get this information out in a reasonable time frame. The status posted using these methods will remain in effect until a new status is posted. For example, if the status is updated announcing that fields are closed, they will remain closed until the status message is changed. You can find the field status on our Home page.

The decision to open or close fields is not necessarily based on the weather at any given moment, but rather on the condition of the fields themselves. After heavy or extended periods of rain, many grass fields often need hours or even a day or two to dry out and become playable. Conversely, there may be occasions when fields will remain open even if it has begun raining, because the fields are not saturated with water.

The primary reason for closing a field or pickleball court is player safety; playing any sport on a field/surface that is muddy and saturated with water is dangerous and poses real risks of injury.

The secondary reason for closing a field is preservation of the playing surfaces; it only takes a few minutes to do serious damage to a field that is wet and slippery--and it can take weeks or months for a field to recover from such damage.

Typically, the decision to open or close fields is firm but If field conditions worsen after the decision has been posted, it is incumbent upon coaches, the general public, (or referees, if the activity is a game) to cancel any on-field activities. It's not at all unusual for field conditions to be fine when the decision is made to keep fields open, and then have heavy rains make fields unplayable later that same day. In such an event, users are expected to use common sense and cancel on-field activities.

In the event of lightning observed in the vicinity of our complex, all activity on our premises must cease immediately for a period of at least 30 minutes after observed lightning. All individuals present must go to safe shelter in the event of lightning. DO NOT remain on the field, trail, pickleball courts, or in other exposed areas.