Pass Information 2025

2025 Lake Pass Info

All Amston Lake District residents must display current passes when parking on ALD property, visiting a beach or ROW, or using their boats/watercraft in the lake. To receive passes, you must either own ALD property, or rent a property within the District and have written permission from the owner to obtain passes on their behalf. Auto and beach passes are limited to two per property. Property owners who owe ALD back taxes or fines for not removing boats by the November 1 deadline are ineligible to receive lake passes until these bills are paid.

The pre-filled online registration form is back for those who registered last year!  In late February, eligible residents will be emailed a unique personal link to the email address you provided with last year’s registration.  By accessing the form through your personal link, you can easily and quickly confirm or revise the information that you provided last year, including adding or deleting boat information, as applicable.  You will also have the option to upload your title/registration for any watercraft using the Main Beach boat ramp.  Your car and boats must display the new GREEN stickers as of July 1, 2025.

NEW INFORMATION FOR 2025: Launching watercraft at the Main Beach Boat Ramp

On July 6, 2024, ALD ordinance 2008.8(b)(2) was amended to require that owners/residents show watercraft title/registration in their name.  For any boats you will be launching off a trailer, you must launch them at the boat ramp next to Main Beach, and will need to obtain a special striped “Amston Lake Boat Ramp” sticker by providing this information.  To obtain the striped sticker, you can upload the document during the online registration process or via the ALD website (link below), email it to [email protected], or bring it to a lake pass distribution event at the clubhouse when you pick up your passes.

 

Online registrations must be submitted 72 hours prior to picking up your passes so that we have time to verify your information. If you need assistance completing the online registration, assistance will be available at the clubhouse during pass distribution. 

Alternatively, you may opt to complete a paper form, which can be downloaded by clicking here or picked up outside the clubhouse. Completed forms may be dropped off during pass distribution events (passes may not be distributed until the next event) or mailing the form to the Amston Lake District, Attn: Passes, PO Box 95, Amston, CT 06231. 

If you are unable to attend a pass pickup event, the passes can be mailed to you. Please send a check for $5 to cover mailing and handling and made out to Amston Lake District, Attn: Passes, PO Box 95, Amston, CT  06231. If you will be using the boat ramp at Main Beach, please include a copy of your vessel title or current DMV registration. Please allow 14 days for your passes to be mailed.

2025 Pass Pickup Events Passes may be picked up at the ALA Clubhouse, 16 Wood Acres Road, Amston, on the dates listed below. You must bring proof of identity, such as a license. If the District is not your primary residence, please also bring a current utility or tax bill. If you are having someone else pick up your passes, please email your permission to Karen Patterson at [email protected].

2025 Pass Distribution Dates

  • Sat, April 5,  11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
  • Sat, April 19, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
  • Sat, May 10,  11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
  • Sat, May 24,  11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
  • Sat, June 14,  11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
  • Sun, June 29, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Please complete the online registration form by clicking here or by using your unique personal link that was emailed to you, if applicable. If the form is not filled out in full (including color, type and approximate length of boats), your passes will not be processed. In order to access the Main Beach boat launch, click here to upload your vessel title or current DMV registration – you’ll receive a special sticker. Only current District residents are allowed to use Amston Lake; a valid sticker is your proof. Please contact board member Karen Patterson with any questions or concerns.

Landlords with seasonal or weekly rentals are responsible for distributing the two parking and two beach passes to your renters. You will receive stickers only for the boats that are on your property. You are responsible for ensuring that your renters abide by the Amston Lake ordinances.

Boats with valid stickers may be placed on the racks after April 1 each year. Please attach your new GREEN stickers (exp. June 30, 2026) as soon as you receive them. Any boat launched at the Main Beach boat ramp MUST display the special striped “Amston Lake Boat Ramp” sticker in order to access the boat ramp. Boats without valid stickers will be subject to fines and immediate removal from the racks, or not allowed to launch at the boat ramp. Your car and boats must display the new GREEN stickers as of July 1, 2025. 

If your boat was removed by our contractor from a beach or right of way after the November 1 removal deadline last year and you have not paid your fine, please contact board member Karen Patterson prior to filling out your registration form. The fines are nominal – however, if not paid you may not obtain a pass for the 2025 – 26 season.

  • Any boat in District waters or stored on the racks must display the current ALD sticker.
  • Residents visiting the beaches will be asked to show their current key tag. Every. Single. Time.
  • Residents’ cars parked on District property must display the current hang tag. District property includes, but is not limited to, both Main and Lollipop Beaches, the seven ROWs, and the Berglund property (the green across from Main Beach). 

Cars or boats found to be non-compliant will receive a red warning sticker, and multiple violations could result in the car or boat being removed from District property, at the owner’s expense.

To access online registration (if you have not been emailed a personal link) click here.

To access a printable form, download here. 

To upload your required documents to obtain the special striped “Amston Lake Boat Ramp” sticker, click here. (Please be sure you have already completed an online registration or printable form as noted above.)

If you have any questions please contact BOD member Karen Patterson.