I recently verified in the city of Seattle, if you can find a place
outside of designated "zone" parking (which is not as easy as you would
think), it is legal to park for 4 days, and this does not rule out
sleeping in the vehicle.  Of course in practice, in many neighborhoods,
depending on the cleanliness, etc of your vehicle, police may knock
anyway, but they wont make you leave without good reason.  Still, there
are certain parts of town (Ballard and Shoreline are the prime
possibilities) with lots of quiet nooks.

Its not camping as most people think of it, but it is legal and free,
and can be quite pleasant, especially if you know in advance where to
go.  Since I have been keeping an eye out, I have started to spot the
"rv ghettos" around town.  Often on nice, shady, quiet streets that most
people just dont ever need to go down.

I wonder about other cities?

Joy Hecht wrote:

>What about legal free camping?  I doubt that Jean-Woo was looking to stealth
>camp with his kids, or to stay in WalMart parking lots.  And with a kayak
>and a bicycle on my van, I'm a bit conspicuous for stealth camping.  But if
>there are safe and legal places to camp for free, I'm definitely interested!
>
>The archives are quite interesting on the subject of stealth camping,
>though.
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>Joy
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
>>Of Malcolm Stebbins
>>Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 4:20 PM
>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>Subject: Re: Camping question.
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>>Search the vanagon archives for "Stealth Camping".
>>You'll get every good idea known to this list.  M
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>>http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html
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>>--- Jean-Woo Kim <jeanwoo@FULLER.EDU> wrote:
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>>>Is there a way to
>>>camp for free without checking into a campsite?
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