Snowy Monaro: sleeping in your car
Vehicle camping: unknown
We have not read Snowy Monaro'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 (26)
- Bombala Rest Area SouthboundLight vehicles only · toilet
- Bombala Truck Parking Bay NorthboundHeavy vehicles only
- Bombala Truck Parking Bay SouthboundHeavy vehicles only
- Bredbo Centennial ParkLight vehicles only · toilet
- Cascades Information Bay, Jacobs RiverLight vehicles only
- Colinton Rest Area NorthboundLight and heavy vehicles · toilet
- Jindabyne Surge Tank Lookout Eastbound, Wilsons ValleyLight vehicles only
- Kosciuszko Park Information Bay Southbound, CoomaLight vehicles only
- Lake Jindabyne Stopping Bay EastboundLight and heavy vehicles
- Lake Jindabyne Stopping Bay WestboundLight and heavy vehicles
- Lake Williams Rest Area, NimmitabelLight vehicles only · toilet
- Little Thredbo River Rest Area Westbound, Wilsons ValleyLight vehicles only · toilet
- Ngarigo Rest AreaLight vehicles only · toilet
- Nimmitabel Truck Parking Bay SouthboundHeavy vehicles only
- Numeralla River Rest Area Northbound, ChakolaLight vehicles only · toilet
- Prussian Creek Parking Bay, Smiggin HolesLight vehicles only
- Saddle Flaps Truck Parking Bay Northbound, RocktonHeavy vehicles only
- Saddle Flaps Truck Parking Bay Southbound, RocktonHeavy vehicles only
- Sawpit Rest Area, Wilsons ValleyLight vehicles only · toilet
- Skitube Park Information Bay, Bullocks FlatLight vehicles only
- Spencers Creek Eastbound, Charlotte PassLight vehicles only
- Spencers Creek, Perisher ValleyLight vehicles only
- The Sawyers Hill Rest House, Broken DamLight vehicles only · toilet
- Victorian Border Information Bay Northbound, Bondi ForestLight and heavy vehicles
- Wilsons Valley Stopping BayLight vehicles only
- Wragges Creek Stopping Bay Eastbound, Wilsons ValleyLight 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).