Special Park Conditions
Activity: Painting and Photography Workshops
A. Authorized Services and Definitions
- This Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) authorizes road-based photography and painting workshops which include photography and/or painting instruction or facilitation. Stops at visitor facilities, services, walks on trails less than a ½ mile from trailheads or roadways, and on boardwalks/developed areas are authorized under this CUA.
- Definitions:
a. Photography Workshops: An organized group using an itinerary that has been packaged, priced, or sold as a guided, facilitated, or instructional photography session. Photography Workshops embrace the scenic, cultural, and/or natural resources of Yellowstone National Park to create a facilitated or instructional experience designed to provide a photography opportunity and/or improve a photographer's skills and/or photography techniques.
b. Painting Workshops: An organized group using an itinerary that has been packaged, priced, or sold as a guided, facilitated, or instructional painting session. During these sessions, visitors are provided painting and related art instruction and/or facilitated opportunities that embrace the scenic, cultural, and/or natural resources of Yellowstone National Park.
c. Step-on Guide: Holders may act as step-on guide/instructor for the purpose of providing photography or painting instruction. A step-on guide is defined as a person who rides in a visitor's vehicle, or other commercial vehicle and acts as a photography or painting instructor. It is the holder's responsibility to check the clients' proof of auto liability insurance before the trip.
B. Operational Requirements
- Group size is limited to 15 participants including guides/instructors for photography workshops, painting workshops, and step-on guiding.
a. There is no limit to the number of separate groups a holder can bring into the park in a single day, as long as the group size of no more than 15 participants is adhered to.
b. Separate groups must be dispersed and may not congregate at boardwalks, pullouts, trails, or trailheads.
- All individuals are required to comply as directed by NPS staff engaged in administering wildlife management operations or managing wildlife viewing opportunities.
- Guides and clients may not ask other visitors to move, and areas may not be closed to accommodate painting and photography workshops.a. Permitted tour groups are sharing visitor facilities with the general public. This permit does not convey priority use of any park area including park trails, roadside pullouts, parking areas, picnic areas, etc.b. Permittees are responsible for the conduct of their clients.
- Impeding traffic or causing unnecessary delays in traffic is prohibited.
a. Slow moving vehicles must use pullouts and parking areas to allow for the free flow of traffic.
b. Vehicles may not stop in the roadway to allow clients to take pictures or to load and unload passengers.
- Vehicles may not be left idling in parking areas or park across multiple parking spaces. Loading zones must not be occupied longer than necessary to load and unload passengers.
- Parking spaces are available on a first-come first-served basis and may not be blocked or saved.
C. Equipment
- All equipment is subject to approval by Commercial Services Office. Written approval, if applicable, must be carried by the workshop instructor and available to present to park staff if asked.
- The use of tripods or easels is limited to a total of eight at any one instruction site at any given time.
- Easels must be self-contained and may not be left unattended.
- Equipment must be removed by participants after each day of use and may not be left out overnight.
- No equipment may be attached to vegetation, rocks, structures, or facilities.
- The construction and/or use of sets or staging equipment is prohibited.
- Road based filming and car mounted cameras are prohibited.
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