Grey Towers National Historic Site | Photography and Filming

Photography & Filming

Grey Towers Photo Policy (revised 2024)

COMMERICAL FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

If you want to have a industrial filming or images session at Grey Towers, you have to submit a particular use allow software 60 days earlier than the specified date for the session. If authorized, the particular use allow could have charges related to it.

Commercial use outlined: Commercial filming is outlined as use of movement image, videotaping, sound recording, or another sort of transferring picture or audio recording tools on National Forest System lands that entails the commercial of a services or products, the creation of a product on the market, and/or using actors, fashions, units, or props, however not together with actions related to broadcasting breaking information. For functions of this definition, creation of a product on the market features a movie, videotape, tv broadcast, or documentary of historic occasions, wildlife, pure occasions, options, topics or individuals in a sporting or recreation occasion, and so forth, when created for the aim of producing revenue.

Commercial images is outlined as using photographic tools to seize nonetheless photographs on movie, digital format, and different related applied sciences discovered on National Forest System lands that: takes place at a location the place members of the general public are typically not allowed or the place extra administrative prices are probably; or makes use of fashions, units, or props that aren’t a part of the positioning’s pure or cultural assets or administrative services.

Obtaining a Special Use Permit

1. Before submitting an software, please evaluate the positioning tips listed under. Please pay specific consideration to the places and hours of availability which is able to assist decide in case your allow could be authorized on the requested time and place. This type is required to start the particular use allow software course of.
2. Please request and ship all industrial picture and movie particular use allow purposes to SM.FS.greytowers@usda.gov for evaluate.
3. The USDA Forest Service at Grey Towers will evaluate the appliance and can notify the applicant of its willpower. No industrial periods could happen at Grey Towers with out an authorized particular use allow.

NON-COMMERICAL FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Non-commercial filming or images doesn’t require a allow; nonetheless guests should learn and abide by all website tips and laws.  Site tips are designed to permit for normal operations on the website and to permit uninterrupted use of the positioning by all guests.  Failure to observe tips could end in penalties.

While it’s not a requirement, we encourage guests planning a non-commercial filming or images session to finish the appliance type.  This is a good assist to Grey Towers workers and helps us determine potential conflicts with regular operations or deliberate particular occasions.  It additionally provides us a mechanism to contact you in case of website closures or different scheduling conflicts which will come up.  Please request and submit the shape to sm.fs.greytowers@usda.gov not less than two weeks previous to your deliberate session.

There aren’t any charges related to conducting non-commercial filming or images periods at Grey Towers.

We encourage anybody utilizing the grounds for non-commercial filming or images to schedule their periods to conclude by 10am or start after 4pm to reduce interference with common website operations.

Site Guidelines

• Your picture session could not intervene with regular website features, customer actions and excursions, or particular packages in and across the mansion.
• Even with permission to take pictures, you do not need unique rights to the gardens and grounds – different guests are free to make use of the grounds and won’t be requested to depart or transfer. Benches and backyard furnishings will not be for use as storage
• Please use the present fantastic thing about Grey Towers as your backdrop
• Equipment or props corresponding to tents, chairs, stools, canopies, ropes, stanchions, amplifiers, tables, rice, birdseed, confetti, streamers, balloons, bubbles, flower petals, or the discharge of any sort of dwell animals will not be allowed.
• You could not have alcohol, weapons, firearms, flammable supplies, open flames, and or pyrotechnics on authorities property.
• You could not injury or decide any crops or flowers.
• You could not stand within the flowerbeds or intervene with backyard tools and panorama options.
• You could not enter any water options or climb timber.
• You could not stand or lean over any stone construction, together with the tops and aprons of stone partitions and the millstones.
• Running or standing alongside the tops of partitions or the aprons of the Long Garden Pool, Fingerbowl or another stone construction, and standing on the Pool Terrace and Moat perimeter wall isn’t allowed.
• You should keep acceptable costume — no nudity or indecent publicity.
• The historic walkways and stairs are uneven and irregular; people in your social gathering ought to stroll with warning and use handrails the place out there.
• The lined but unenclosed Visitor Pavilion is the one facility out there in case of inclement climate; please plan accordingly.
• Please notify Grey Towers’ workers instantly if there are any accidents, injury to authorities property, security hazards or safety considerations.
• The US Forest Service at Grey Towers NHS isn’t answerable for loss or injury to non-public property or private harm which will happen due to the exercise.
• Vehicles should depart from the positioning previous to gate closing at 4:30 p.m. If you park outdoors the gates and stroll into the positioning, please don’t block the fireplace lanes