Clarence Valley: sleeping in your car
Vehicle camping: unknown
We have not read Clarence Valley's local laws, and New South Wales publishes no register of them, so this page claims nothing about what this council permits or prohibits. Unknown does not mean permitted.
Signs override this page. Whatever is signed at the site is the rule that applies, no matter what is written here.
What applies here regardless
In New South Wales, failing to comply with the terms of a notice erected by a council in a public place is an offence under section 632 of the Local Government Act 1993, carrying a maximum penalty of 10 penalty units.
The terms of such a notice may cover the driving, parking or use of a vehicle in the place, and the doing of any thing in the place — which is how a council “no camping” sign in a park or reserve becomes enforceable.
That power has a limit written into the section itself: a council notice must not prohibit or regulate taking a vehicle into, or driving, parking or using a vehicle in, a public place that is a road or road related area within the meaning of section 4(1) of the Road Transport Act 2013. The Act allows one narrow exception, for parking a vehicle in order to offer it for sale in prescribed areas.
State rest areas in this council area (15)
- Bundjalung Rest Area Northbound, Jacky Bulbin FlatLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Cangai Rest AreaLight and heavy vehicles
- Dahdahra Creek Rest Area, CangaiLight vehicles only
- Dinjerra Road Rest Area, GlenugieLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Ferry Park Maclean, GulmarradLight vehicles only · toilet
- Halfway Creek Service Centre NorthboundLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Halfway Creek Service Centre SouthboundLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Halfway Creek Stopping Bay SouthboundLight and heavy vehicles
- Lollback Rest Area, JackadgeryLight vehicles only · toilet
- Mann River Caravan Park, JackadgeryLight and heavy vehicles
- McPhillips Creek Rest Area Southbound, ClarenzaLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Mororo Rest AreaLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Pine Brush Rest Area Northbound, TucabiaLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Pine Brush Rest Area Southbound, TucabiaLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Tindal Bridge Rest Area, RamornieLight vehicles only
Where this comes from
- “A person who, in a public place within the area of a council, fails to comply with the terms of a notice erected by the council is guilty of an offence. Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.” — Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), section 632 — Acting contrary to notices erected by councils, NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 30 Aug 2026 (read via the Internet Archive snapshot of 6 December 2025; legislation.nsw.gov.au blocks automated retrieval).
- “The terms of any such notice may relate to any one or more of the following—” “(b1) the driving, parking or use of a vehicle in the place,” “(e) the doing of any thing in the place,” — Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), section 632 — Acting contrary to notices erected by councils, NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 30 Aug 2026 (read via the Internet Archive snapshot of 6 December 2025; legislation.nsw.gov.au blocks automated retrieval).
- “However, a notice—” “(b) must not, except as provided by subsection (2B), prohibit or regulate the taking of a vehicle into, or the driving, parking or use of any vehicle in, any public place that is a road or road related area within the meaning of section 4(1) of the Road Transport Act 2013 .” “A notice may prohibit the parking of a vehicle, for the purpose of offering the vehicle for sale, in a public place that is—” — Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), section 632 — Acting contrary to notices erected by councils, NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 30 Aug 2026 (read via the Internet Archive snapshot of 6 December 2025; legislation.nsw.gov.au blocks automated retrieval).