You can contact NVRC's Central Booking Office at 604-983-6318 or parks@nvrc.ca. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 4pm.

Visit the Book a Field or Book a Park or Plaza  pages for more information.

Check out the Field Status and Locations page.

To book a playing field for a sports tournament, call 604-983-6318 or use our online Parks & Playing Field Application to request a booking. Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30-4pm. Tournament registration should be arranged six months to one year in advance to ensure correct booking and notification.

District of North Vancouver (DNV) Parks tournament organizer obligations
DNV Parks has established the following responsibilities and policies to ensure that park visitors and neighbours are respected during sport tournaments. Please read these carefully, and make sure your tournament organizers and participants are aware of them before the event.

Obligations of the tournament committee

Designated field marshals and designates shall be appointed and named on the permit to promote an effective communication link between tournament participants, neighbourhood residents, RCMP, and District, City or School District staff (including bylaw officers).

Responsibilities of the tournament committee include:

• Assigning a first aid attendant for each location
• Communication (including notifying the neighbourhood of your event)
• Concession extra needs (such as port-o-potties, garbage bags and cans, bleachers, tents, etc.)
• Garbage and clean-up
• Parking and traffic control
• Registration and scheduling (including awareness of field closures and organizing back-up fields)
• Washroom cleaning and monitoring (supplies, etc.).

Some of our grass and all weather fields have whiting or lime sheds for storing equipment and supplies for lining fields.

Home teams must line the field to the referee's satisfaction.

All permitted groups must use sports field whiting when marking lines on North Vancouver playing fields. Purchase a key to the whiting sheds for $5 by contacting our office Monday to Friday, 8:30am-4pm at 604.983.6318 or parks@nvrc.ca.

The whiting shed key also locks and unlocks the Super 8 goal nets.

Field & lacrosse box lighting

Several North Vancouver playing fields and lacrosse boxes are equipped with outdoor lighting. To use these facilities, your group must have a confirmed booking with NVRC. You can request a field booking by calling the Central Booking Office at 604-983-6318 between 8:30 am and 4 pm, Monday to Friday, or by using our online parks & playing field application.

Access to lighting boxes is available seven days a week. Lights may be on during the times indicated below.

City of North Vancouver (CNV) fields
City lights need a key to access. Please contact us at 604-983-6318 or parks@nvrc.ca (M-F, 8:30am-4pm) to obtain a Super 8 goal key, which also opens the lime sheds.

For City-lit fields, the first person using the key should leave it in the slot. The last person to leave needs to take the key out. Coaches should exchange keys to avoid turning the lights off and on again between groups.

District of North Vancouver (DNV) fields
All District lit fields are on a code pad. The code to access the lights is 505001.

Artificial turf fields
The artificial turf fields are all on the same code pad. The code for the lights is 505001. Fen Burdett is on a remote lighting system, no code is required as it is programmed through the internet by City Parks staff.

More information
Contact 604-983-6318 or parks@nvrc.ca.

Lacrosse box lighting

Playing field lighting

City of North Vancouver (CNV) fields
City lights need a key to access. Please contact us at 604-983-6318 or parks@nvrc.ca (M-F, 8:30am-4pm) to obtain a Super 8 goal key, which also opens the lime sheds.

For City-lit fields, the first person using the key should leave it in the slot. The last person to leave needs to take the key out. Coaches should exchange keys to avoid turning the lights off and on again between groups.

District of North Vancouver (DNV) fields
All District lit fields are on a code pad. The code to access the lights is 505001.

Artificial turf fields
The artificial turf fields are all on the same code pad. The code for the lights is 505001. Fen Burdett is on a remote lighting system, no code is required as it is programmed through the internet by City Parks staff.

More information
Contact 604-983-6318 or parks@nvrc.ca.

You can check the field status & locations page online at any time for an update. Generally this is updated on Friday afternoons for weekend league play.

District and City Parks staff are both using X (formerly known as Twitter) to communicate with field users on the weekends and in the evenings when our office is closed. Their X feeds are @DNVfields and @CNVfields. You must have an X account to send them questions and get an answer.

Practicing on grass fields in the City and District of North Vancouver is not allowed. The grass fields are “reserved” for league play with permits only.

Grass fields are closed so fields remain in good shape through the winter months, keeping field closures to a minimum.

Besides respecting other park visitors and neighbours, your sport group should also keep the following in mind.

• Alcohol consumption is prohibited except where special event permit, RCMP, and Park permission is approved.
• Dogs are not allowed on sports fields, playgrounds or picnic areas at any time. Please inform teams from outside of North Vancouver of this bylaw to avoid any problems with the SPCA or bylaw officers.
• Food may not be sold without a special event permit.
• Garbage, including picnic and concession materials, must be put in garbage containers or taken away. If garbage cans become full, please remove the garbage and add a new bag. Take full bags to a dumpster or lock up in building for later removal. The dumping of ice, excess juice, water, or food on grass areas is forbidden. Briquette ashes must be dumped into the designated concrete ash receptacle (not in garbage cans or on lawns, bush areas, gardens and beaches).
• Gas, propane or hibachi barbecues are allowed in off-field areas.
• General cleanup after the tournament must ensure that playing fields and field houses (including change rooms, washrooms, concessions) are left in a clean condition. Sports gear must be stored and secured, and sports materials (such as whiting) must be locked away and secured.
• Noise from public address systems or loud speakers is not permitted near residential buildings without relaxation of noise bylaw #5986 enacted by Mayor and Council.
• Parking should follow local parking regulations to avoid bylaw infractions and tickets. Park in park or school parking lots, wherever possible. Do not park in adjacent neighbourhoods. If excess parking is required, contact Donna Howes in Traffic, (604) 990-2402. It may be necessary to relax or increase parking restrictions during tournament times. It is recommended that residents living in close proximity to the venue be notified of the date and time that the tournament is to be held, and that the organizer asks for their patience regarding parking and incoming/outgoing traffic.
• Special vending concessions require Park permits and health permits.
• Tournament start and stop times are between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Please respect neighbours when early set-up or takedown of equipment is required.
• Washroom cleaning and supplies replacement may be required by the tournament organizers periodically, particularly for all day tournaments. Caretakers are only on site to open and clean washrooms each morning.

View all Park and Field Use Policies.