RV parking rules in Unincorporated Clark County

Unincorporated Clark County RV parking at a glance

County roads are different from Vancouver streets

This guide covers unincorporated Clark County, Washington. A Vancouver mailing address can be outside the city. Vancouver, Battle Ground, Camas, Washougal and other incorporated cities use their own rules. County permit guidance links a property-information lookup to establish the address jurisdiction. County RV permit and boundary information

Confirm road ownership as well as the parcel boundary. A private road or access easement does not become a county-road parking space, and a state highway needs the relevant road authority.

An RV does not inherit the automobile 24-hour allowance

CCC 10.04.020 prohibits an RV on a County road for any amount of time unless it uses an issued permit or is there for loading/unloading only, up to 24 hours. The same section separately restricts automobiles after 24 hours. Those two provisions are different: the automobile clock is not general RV permission. CCC 10.04.020(2)

A vehicle also cannot impede road-maintenance equipment or create a hazard. Moving along the same curb face within a block to evade the maximum is prohibited. A short loading period must still comply with signs, access and safety rules.

Guest habitation uses issued seven-day periods

A resident of the adjacent property must first obtain the ordinary County RV permit for the actual location. One period is up to seven days, with an additional seven-day period possible. The current application page limits each RV/address to two seven-day permits and a total of 14 calendar-year days. It requires direct frontage at a single- or two-family residence, resident proof/signature and the RV owner’s signature. Current County permit instructions CCC 10.04.020(3)–(5)

Request an extension before expiration and obtain written approval. The permit must be visible, cover the dates and match the site. An application is not an issued permit. A special event/use approval may have a different individual route; read its actual conditions.

Clearance, sanitation and hookups remain important

The code’s permit conditions include a fully self-contained RV, legal waste/sewage disposal, no generator operation, no extension cords or hookups, and no outside awnings/furniture. The County page also requires sanitation and trash arrangements, no externally tied animals and no disturbance. Code permit conditions Current application conditions

The permit page lists at least five feet from driveways, 15 feet from hydrants and 20 feet from intersections, with signs unobstructed. CCC 10.04.040 separately bars parking within ten feet of a US mailbox except while delivering or picking up mail. County authority to require movement/removal remains even with a permit.

Keep consecutive days separate from calendar-year days

The County’s current Community Guide says ordinary private-property RV occupancy may last up to 30 consecutive days, but no more than 60 days in a calendar year. It says long-term occupancy outside an approved RV park is not allowed. A visit crossing January 1 still has one uninterrupted consecutive-day count, even though the annual count changes. County Community Guide, RV section

The code’s temporary-occupancy definition uses these same two clocks, but a definition alone is not a permit or a parcel approval. Check the site zoning, lawful access, sanitation and placement. Private storage rules and a new driveway/RV pad are separate questions; the published sources do not establish one universal County storage setback. CCC 14.32A.120 Residential permits

A hardship or construction plan needs its own review

CCC 40.260.210 provides permit-based temporary-dwelling routes for specified care, agricultural-employment and qualifying-relative situations, with site, documentation and removal/renewal requirements. Its 2025 amendments do not make every RV an automatically approved second home. Temporary dwelling code

CCC 14.32A.140(2) also addresses approved water and sewage systems for RV temporary dwellings under Chapter 40.260. Ask Community Development to identify the exact approval for a hardship, construction or other exception before adding hookups. The County’s 2020 pandemic emergency announcement was time-limited and is not used as current blanket permission here. Full cited code/guidance was reviewed October 20, 2026; complete uncodified-law clearance remains incomplete.

Who to contact for your setup

For an unincorporated parcel’s RV pad or permit process, start with Clark County Community Development’s contact list: the Permit Center is 564-397-4078 or permitservices@clark.wa.gov. Land-use questions can be sent to landuse@clark.wa.gov. Include the address or parcel number, parking sketch and intended use, and keep any public-road parking request separate from the parcel permit inquiry.

Use Unincorporated Clark County official information to confirm the address and later amendments. Send the vehicle type, measurements, site sketch, proposed use, connections and complete timing history. Ask specifically whether any permit, zoning, access or screening condition changes this setup.

Use the Unincorporated Clark County parking checker to organize the starting conditions. The checker cannot approve a parcel, a variance or an unverified exception.

Official sources reviewed October 20, 2026

• Clark County Code 10.04.020

  Full chapter read Oct 20, 2026, RV/loading/permit/habitation/reparking provisions amended by 2020-03-03. Code publisher has migrated from CodePublishing to eCode360; complete uncodified-law clearance not available for review.

• County Code Enforcement Community Guide

  Current official nine-page PDF linked by County Code Enforcement, fully read relevant RV passage on page 5: private occupancy 30 consecutive/60 calendar-year days, no ordinary long-term occupancy outside approved RV park.

• County temporary RV right-of-way permits

  Full current County page read; seven-day periods, written renewal before expiry, two seven-day permits per RV/address/calendar year, direct frontage and clearance conditions.

• CCC 40.260.210 temporary dwellings

  Full section read including 2025-07-01 amendments. Hardship/employment/qualifying-relative routes have permits, site and utility conditions; no automatic universal RV home approval inferred.

• CCC 14.32A definitions and exemptions

  Full relevant current chapter read, especially 14.32A.120 temporary occupancy definition and 14.32A.140(2) RV temporary-dwelling water/sewage conditions. Definition is not treated as standalone permission.

• County residential permits and RV pads

  Current municipal permit guidance reviewed; a new driveway/RV pad and utility work may need review. No universal private-storage setback or surface rule was established.

A review date records when we checked these sources. The notes above explain any use of older code editions or limits on access to the full source; an address-specific county determination may still be required. Read our research method.