WARNING: Under the Equine Activity Liability Act, each participant who engages in an equine activity expressly assumes the risks of engaging in and legal responsibility for injury, loss, or damage to person or property resulting from the risk of equine activities.

Notice

The Barrington Countryside Park District Riding Center is an unsupervised facility. You ride at your own risk and assume all risk of injury when you are on Barrington Countryside Park District property.

Please contact the Park District Office by telephone: (847)783-6772 or email: bcpdoffice@comcast.net with any suggested maintenance or repair issues.

Please remember that there are many equestrian disciplines and that the Riding Center is a shared facility. Please be prepared to adjust your riding program to accommodate the current conditions in the riding arenas. Courtesy and safety should guide your behavior.

 The following rules have been compiled in an effort to promote safety at the Barrington Countryside Park District Riding Center. Please review and follow them.

General Facility Rules

1. A signed Waiver, Release, Indemnification and Hold Harmless Agreement is required to be on file in the Park District office before you are authorized to use the property or facilities. These waivers are available on-line or at the Riding Center.
2. An SEI/ASTM equestrian helmet is required to be worn by all riders for all mounted equestrian activity while on Park District property. Please read and follow the “Equestrian Helmet Policy”.
3. Trainers are required to register with the Barrington Countryside Park District.  Training is not permitted without registration.
4. Cook County Ordinances require dogs to be leashed at all times while on Park District property and/or Cook County Forest Preserve property.
5. Under Illinois law, smoking is prohibited within all buildings on Park District property.
6. The vehicle speed limit is 10 mph on Park District property.
7. The outside area along the east side of the main barn and indoor arena is designated as a No Parking Area because the doors located there are emergency exits for both people and horses.
8. You must remain on Park District property and supervise your horse while it is in a paddock. Please limit paddock turn-out time to ½ hour if others are waiting to use the paddock. No turn-out is allowed when the footing in the paddock is soft.
9. Horses may not be left on Park District property overnight unless an actual emergency arises. If an actual emergency arises, please leave your name, phone number and basis of the emergency on the stall door and also leave that information in a message for the Park Board staff at (847)783-6772.
10. You are required to clean up after yourself and your horse before leaving the facility including stalls. Please turn off all lights if you are the last to leave the facility.
11. During the indoor riding season (November 1 through April 30) please adhere to the posted Winter Indoor Arena Riding Schedule.

Indoor and Outdoor Arena General Rules

1. Do not leave your horse unattended in an arena.
2. There is no tying of horses in any arena.
3. No lunging, in-hand/unmounted work or loose horses are allowed in an arena unless there are no other mounted riders present.
4. Clean up after yourself and your horse after you have left an arena.
5. All riders are welcome to ride in an arena during lessons EXCEPT during scheduled Pony Club lesson time November 1 through mid-May.
6. Arena maintenance has priority over riding and is typically done between 5:00 AM and 8:30 AM. Please do not enter an arena during maintenance and exit an arena immediately for maintenance to begin. (Note: maintenance schedules may vary due to changing conditions and priorities.)

Indoor Arena: Please remember to remove all jumps, barrels, poles, cones and dressage letters after your use. Please return all equipment to the jump storage stall.

Note: Although the suggested capacity of the indoor arena is approximately 8 riders/horses, each rider must determine for themselves whether or not they feel they can safely ride under the circumstances they find in the arena when they enter it.

Outdoor Arena: Please remember that only 4 plastic jumps may remain in the outdoor arena after your use of it. Please remove any additional jumps, poles, barrels, cones and dressage letters after your use.

 
Please contact the Park District Office by telephone: (847)783-6772 or email: bcpdoffice@comcast.net to report compliance issues. Note: Repeated violators risk having their Riding Center privileges suspended.