Compare RV parking rules in Delaware

Private driveway storage requires a separate current zoning route.

No home-yard storage permission established by the reviewed street paragraph.

Private storage and zoning permission require a separate current route.

The examined street amendment does not approve home-yard storage.

A residential front driveway does not exempt locally defined RVs or utility trailers from the front-yard exclusion.

Rear provision: one unit, qualifying detached/semidetached dwelling and accessory yards; complete clearance not established by this targeted checker.

Separate private zoning and §108-3 conditions need review; two-acre rule not generalized into permission.

No complete home-yard RV storage route established.

Parking on an unpaved legal front-yard surface is prohibited; a driveway name alone does not clear it.

New off-street construction needs asphalt, concrete, pavers or another Town-approved hardened surface.

Dismantled/inoperative/discarded equipment requires an enclosed building; applicable tags and original configuration remain separate.

No general yard-storage allowance established by the examined prohibited-use provisions.

Ordinary outdoor private property is not a blanket exception for covered oversized vehicles or any trailer.

Enclosed-building, lawful business, antique, progressing-construction or actual Board routes require distinct complete review.

A driveway within a front or street-side yard does not qualify under the Table 1 storage row.

NR/RR/PR named accessory storage: rear or interior side, no living use, current parcel/flood requirements separately confirmed.

Listed RVs, trailers and truck campers require the appropriate Chapter 309 permit; applications are not approval.

The private-land permit requirement also covers storage and location on land or premises.

One item per residential lot; approved driveway, carport, enclosed building or rear.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

The oversized-street ordinance does not decide private storage.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Owner on own residential property, prior permit and authorized driveway.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Do not obstruct neighboring driveway exit views.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Unoccupied storage placement requires parcel-specific confirmation.

Vehicle-condition exceptions are not blanket yard-placement permission.

Private storage requires a separate zoning answer.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Ordinary storage zoning is separate from Chapter 189 camping.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Carport, enclosed building or behind farthest building; limited side-yard fallback.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Defined hardened driveways excluded from front-yard definition, but other restrictions remain.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Private storage requires a separate land-use answer.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Private zoning must be confirmed separately.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Private placement remains subject to land-use rules.

Confirm parcel setbacks, surface, access, easements and private restrictions separately.

Private trailer storage is not evaluated.

Private trailer storage is not evaluated.

Reproduced §37-233(a): motorized RV>=20 ft or>=11,000 lb registered; any boat/confirmed trailer coach, subject to actual loading or named lawful street-storage permit.

Exception only during actual loading/unloading; independent traffic and current source checks remain.

Resident RV>12 h needs permit; permit at most 72 h; nonresident exemption at most seven days, with conditions. The broad 2 h rule still overlaps.

Commercial immediate delivery/service exceptions do not establish ordinary RV trip-loading permission.

No public-street RV clock established by the off-street provisions.

No general trip-loading exemption established.

Residential public roads prohibit boats/trailers. Public/dedicated private RV rule: any excess above 240 in length,84 in width/height or 5,000 lb.

No ordinary RV trip-loading exception established by the examined road prohibitions.

No current RV/trailer curb clock certified; welcome-page 72 h summary is not permission.

Narrow emergency and one-time delivery/move exceptions do not establish an ordinary RV trip-loading route.

No general RV curb clock established; described crossings of the parkway/sidewalk to a street RV are prohibited.

Trip loading has no independently verified parking exemption in this review.

Inclusive 267 in length or 97 in width restriction; small trailer must be below both and stay within 48 total hours in any six-month window plus independent rules.

Motor-vehicle exception for actual freight/merchandise loading/unloading or passenger pickup/discharge.

No ordinary public-street RV clock established by this residential storage row.

No general trip-loading exception inferred from accessory storage or special-event language.

No public-street parking clock established by this Chapter 309 review.

No independent trip-loading exemption established.

Covered equipment prohibited on any street.

Up to 24 hours elsewhere on the residential lot while loading/unloading.

Oversized street parking prohibited beyond five minutes absent an exception.

Active loading/unloading exception.

Ordinary covered RV street parking prohibited.

No general loading exception; commercial-zone stop limited to two hours/day.

Chapter 417 does not decide street parking.

No independent RV loading exception established in Chapter 417.

County habitation section does not establish road-parking permission.

No independent RV loading extension established.

Covered RVs prohibited in six named residential districts unless actually loading/unloading.

Actual loading/unloading only; not waiting or storage.

Covered RVs prohibited on any street unless actively loading/unloading or separately excepted.

Actual loading/unloading exception.

Residential storage clause is not street-parking permission.

Other residential positions up to 24 hours during actual loading/unloading.

Seven-day visitor permit route; separate trailer and oversized-RV restrictions.

No broad loading exception established by section 172-2C.

Sleeping in motor vehicles on public or semipublic sites prohibited at any time.

No separate loading extension established by the sleeping chapter.

24 hours ordinarily; special police permit required above 24; never above 72.

No separate extended RV loading exception established.

Displayed permit up to seven consecutive days; six permits per person, vehicle or frontage property per calendar year.

Active street loading/unloading up to four hours.

Ordinary parking is not camping permission.

Only expressly described loading routes are evaluated.

No sleeping or ongoing-living permission established.

City of Wilmington municipal streets only, not Wilmington postal addresses in unincorporated New Castle County. Complete §37-233(a) reproduced in the City Council’s 2025 Ordinance 25-055 PDF reviewed October 22, 2026; its RV/boat/trailer-coach language is unchanged by that tow-truck amendment. Council records show the 2015 RV rule passed and 25-055 passed November 6, 2025. The supplied 25-055 PDF has blank approval lines and the current published text was inaccessible, so later amendments and exact effective/current codification require City confirmation. No tow-truck or general private-storage route is modeled.

No sleeping or ongoing-living permission established by traffic clocks.

City of Dover legal boundaries only; not Dover Air Force Base or a Dover mailing address outside the City. Complete adopted Ordinance 2026-06 replacing §106-123, adopted June 22, 2026, and the official ordinance index read October 22, 2026. The linked 2026-12 document is a public-safety fee, despite the index RV description. The broad 2-hour wording in(a) overlaps RV/boat-specific clauses(c)–(e); this review preserves that conflict and does not approve a stay from the longer clocks. Independent zoning, signs, state rules and utilities remain separate.

Parking/storage text does not establish sleeping or ongoing habitation permission.

Town of Elsmere legal municipal boundaries only, not Elsmere Kentucky or an Elsmere mailing address outside Town. Publisher §225-5 definitions and §§225-8(F),(U),225-10(A)–(F) operative bodies read October 22, 2026. The complete definition was reviewed on the official publisher’s page; the complete relevant general and residential-parking provisions were read in official indexed text because later access was unavailable. The May 10, 2012 Ordinance 549 surface rule retains its R-2 historical exception. No comprehensive later-amendment certification or complete accessory-building-yard clearance is made; qualifying rear storage remains unknown in this targeted checker. Two overlapping RV definitions coexist within §225-5; this checker requires all conditions of both rather than choosing priority, and the rear same-category cap requires the specified detached/semidetached dwelling.

No sleeping or residence permission inferred from roadway limits.

Town of Middletown municipal boundaries only, not another Middletown or unincorporated New Castle County. Publisher Chapter 108, adopted May 2, 2016 by Ordinance 16-03-01, read October 22, 2026 using the definitions and complete indexed operative §§108-3–108-6. Later access to the chapter and new-laws page was unavailable. The review establishes specific residential-roadway prohibitions, not a complete private-storage, sleeping or utility allowance; later amendments and measurement/classification questions require Town confirmation.

No sleeping or ongoing-living permission established by surface rules.

Town of Smyrna incorporated limits only, including its Kent and New Castle County portions. Complete signed eight-page Ordinance 009-25, adopted April 21, 2025, reviewed October 22, 2026; operative Appendix A §6(1)(A)(6) checked. Official 2025 adoption index and 2026 ordinance list reviewed. This guide models surface restrictions, not a complete RV/trailer traffic rule. The 72-hour welcome summary and unsigned 011-21 trailer amendment are not used as current permission.

Permanent RV habitation is excluded; short guest sleeping remains unresolved under the examined wording.

City of Milford municipal boundaries only, across its Kent and Sussex County portions. Official adopted Ordinance 2023-28 (August 14, 2023), including §230-4 definitions, and complete §230-41 restated in adopted Ordinance 2024-11 (January 13, 2025; effective January 23, 2025) read October 22, 2026. Current publisher indexed Article VIII agrees on the examined clauses; its open view returned no operative text. Later amendments, exact parcel zoning and independent parking permissions are not certified.

Public-land trailer camping/living prohibition is scoped; no general guest-sleep or private habitation permission established.

City of Rehoboth Beach corporate boundaries only, not nearby resort mailing addresses or unincorporated Sussex County. Complete adopted Ordinance 0824-01 (August 16, 2024; immediately effective) read in full and its three-page redline visually checked. Current publisher indexed §92-38(A) agrees on the operative threshold/exception structure and lists November 21, 2025 Ordinance 1125-02; the ledger identifies that later enactment as penalty removal, but its full PDF was not reviewed, so no fine amounts are modeled. Complete enacted 1024-01 body and current §270-39 read in publisher indexed text; §92-248(C),§92-249 and Chapter 123 read. Current Chapter 92 definitions and full ArticleV were inaccessible; actual classification, remaining Chapter 92 conditions and subsequent amendments need City confirmation. Within-limit and claimed-exception results remain unknown.

No living purposes while stored; short guest sleeping needs a separate current route.

Town of Dewey Beach legal boundaries only; NR, RR and PR districts for the modeled Table 1 accessory storage route. Complete publisher Table 1 row, its checkmarks in all three residential columns, accessory-use scope and related §185-23/24/26 text read October 22, 2026 from the full official publisher HTML. Full adopted Ordinance 883-2026, August 21, 2026, read; it changes yard encroachments/frontage provisions and preserves flood requirements. Signage Ordinance 884-2026 was listed but its PDF was inaccessible; it is not modeled. Parcel zoning, later amendments and other activities need separate confirmation.

Camping and listed vehicle household activities, including sleeping, are prohibited Town-wide.

Town of Bethany Beach corporate limits only; not South Bethany or unincorporated Sussex County. Complete publisher Chapter 309 (1992 Ordinance 279, with code-adoption notes) and current Delaware Title 21 §101 definitions read October 22, 2026. The publisher new-laws page was inaccessible; later amendments and actual permit terms require Town confirmation.

Living, sleeping and housekeeping prohibited.

Town of Bridgeville, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Current 234-45C incorporates 2010 changes and the July 8, 2019 approved-driveway amendment; no uncodified laws listed. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Permit does not expressly authorize sleeping.

Town of Felton, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Official adopted replacement Title 8 Article 1, second reading January 13, 2014. PDF includes signed adoption certification, but handwritten certification date is not reliably machine-readable. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Residential permit bars sleeping, eating, preparing meals and changing clothes.

Town of Fenwick Island, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Current Chapter 112 adopted April 27, 2007 and official RV permit guidance. March 27, 2026 zoning amendment remains separately listed; confirm current site requirements. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Owner and visitor temporary residence prohibited on private residential property.

City of Harrington, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Chapter 417 amended October 21, 2024 by Ordinance 24-10. New-laws list has no Chapter 417 amendment. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Permanent habitation prohibited outside a confirmed temporary-emergency route; temporary visitors require a specific answer.

Unincorporated Kent County, Delaware only, not Dover, Harrington, Smyrna, Felton, Wyoming or another incorporated municipality. A city mailing address does not establish the governing jurisdiction. Current online 205-24 and 205-27, Article IV history through April 25, 2023 Ordinance 23-06. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. The two uncodified ordinances listed affect personnel policy, not these zoning provisions. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Street exception does not establish sleeping permission.

City of Lewes, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Current 183-61 text includes amendments through June 10, 2013; 183-62 is retained. New-laws list includes 2026 zoning and peddling changes, not Chapter 183. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. July 7, 2026 Ordinance 5-26 addresses zoning administration and temporary-use procedures, not Chapter 183. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Side/rear residential yard: consent, permanent street screen and maximum three days; resolve zoning.

Town of Millsboro, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Chapter 189 replaced in full December 6, 2021. Nine listed uncodified actions affect building, zoning, tax or administrative matters; none is listed as Chapter 189, but private use still needs current Chapter 210 resolution. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Living, sleeping and housekeeping prohibited on residential property.

Town of Millville, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Current codified 155-27 and related 155-28. No uncodified laws listed on the retrieved code. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Roadway parking permit does not authorize sleeping.

City of New Castle, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Section 172-2C amended October 29, 2015 by Ordinance 503; related B/D and definitions retained. Retrieved code lists no uncodified laws. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Duly licensed and operated RV premises have a separate exception.

Town of Ocean View, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Chapter 107 adopted March 13, 2018 by Ordinance 345. The 2026 new-laws list identifies charter, budget, bond and map actions, not Chapter 107. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Current town guidance prohibits camper camping/living.

Town of South Bethany, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Codified Chapter 94, including 2006 RV provision and 2020 parking orientation amendment; current 2026 town guidance. An uncodified August 14, 2026 Chapter 145 amendment is separately listed. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. August 14, 2026 Ordinance 223-26 addresses pervious materials and setback ground cover, not Chapter 94. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Permanent/temporary residence and overnight sleeping prohibited.

Town of Wyoming, Delaware municipal limits only, not surrounding unincorporated county land or another municipality. A mailing address is not a boundary determination. Signed Ordinance 62-21 adopted January 10, 2022; posted January 11, 2022; effective sixty days after adoption. Still listed on the current ordinance index. Read November 6, 2026. The online source does not state a complete code amendment cutoff. Confirm site-specific restrictions and any use outside the stated route.

Camping or living on undesignated public land is prohibited.

No designated-campsite, private-storage, street or hookup approval. No interpretation of potentially interacting sections 198-1 and 198-2 is automated.