WATERBURY CENTER, Vt. -
Vermont park employees are busy getting ready for Memorial Day Weekend.
Lawns are getting mowed and the department has even unveiled a new smart phone application that provides information on all of the state's parks.
"We've had lot of volunteers and the staff is working hard so we are as ready as we can be," said Vermont State Park's Director Craig Whipple.
The state parks department is also working on a plan that they say they get hundreds of complaints about, smoking in the park.
It's an issue Stacey Pakus-Casey wishes she didn't have to deal with.
"I have a small child and I don't like the smoke around even though it's outside it just still seems like it's in the air," said Pakus-Casey.
The concern with cigarettes isn't just with the smoke in the air but people at the state park say when they're walking along the beach they'll find a number of cigarette butts lying on the ground.
"It's generally a pretty clean park but when people smoke they don't seem to pick up their own butts," said Pakus-Casey.
Park leaders say smoking would be banned in certain areas, like beaches and playgrounds, and would be allowed everywhere else.
As far as enforcing leaders say it will depend on people following the rules on their own.
"We don't expect to be, to turn into cigarette cops," said Whipple.
If you go this weekend the ban will not be in place yet.
The department plans to hold a hearing on the issue in about a week.
If it moves forward beaches will be smoke-free in July.
