Reserve a Picnic Shelter
Montgomery Parks offers covered picnic shelters throughout the county for large and small groups to host picnics or events.
Multiple shelters are located within Regional or Recreational Parks, where there are a variety of amenities and activities for guests. These shelters have picnic tables, grills, and access to permanent restrooms.
The shelters located at all Regional and Recreational Parks and the two Group Picnic Areas at Cabin John Regional Park and Valley Mill Special Park are available by permit only.
Picnic shelters are available to reserve daily from 9am to 8pm from April 1 through October 31.
Reservation can be made beginning January 1 until three days before the event.
Between November 1 and March 31, shelters are first come, first served.
Read the Picnic Shelter conditions of use for complete details.
Big Pines Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 32
Travilah, MD 20878
Black Hill Regional Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for Shelters A, B, C, I, J is 100
Capacity for Shelters D, E, F, G, H is 40
Boyds, Maryland 20841
Blueberry Hill Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 64
Derwood, MD 20855
Cabin John Regional Park Picnic Areas
Capacity for each Shelter is 40
Capacity for the Group Picnic Area is 175
Bethesda, MD 20817
Calverton-Galway Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for each Shelter is 40
Fairland, MD 20904
Damascus Recreational Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for Shelter A is 62, B is 68, and C is 45
Damascus, MD 20872
Darnestown Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 64
Darnestown, MD 20874
East Norbeck Local Park
Capacity is 40
Norbeck, MD 20906
Fairland Recreational Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity of each Shelter is 25
Fairland, MD 20866
Georgian Forest Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 40
Silver Spring, MD 20906
Greenbriar Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 24
Travilah, MD 20854
Gunners Lake Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 40
Germantown, MD 20874
Hillandale Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for each Shelter is 40
Hillandale, MD 20903
Hunters Woods Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 24
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
Johnson’s Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 64
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Laytonsville Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 60
Laytonsville, MD 20882
Long Branch-Wayne Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 40
Silver Spring, MD 20901
Mount Zion Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 80
Brookeville, MD 20882
Olney Mill Neighborhood Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 40
Olney, MD 20832
Ovid Hazen Wells Recreational Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for each Shelter is 90
Clarksburg, MD 20871
Redland Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 40
Gaithersburg, MD 20855
Ridge Road Recreational Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for Shelter A and B is 75
Capacity for Shelter C is 40
Germantown, Maryland 20876
Rock Creek Regional Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for each Shelter is 40
Rockville, Maryland 20855
South Germantown Recreational Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for each Shelter is 40
Boyds, Maryland 20841
Stewartown Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity for Shelter #1 is 40
Capacity for Shelter #2 is 64
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
Stratton Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 40
Bethesda, MD 20817
Sundown Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity Shelter #1 is 60
Shelter #2
Laytonsville, MD 20882
Takoma-Piney Branch Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 48
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Washington Square Neighborhood Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 64
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Waters Landing Local Park Picnic Shelter – Closed
Closed for Remodeling
Germantown, MD 20874
Wheaton Forest Local Park Picnic Shelter
Capacity is 40
Wheaton, MD 20902
Wheaton Regional Park – Picnic Shelter
Capacity for each Shelter is 40
Wheaton, MD 20902
Valley Mill Special Park – Group Picnic Area
Capacity is 100
Colesville, MD 20904