Rest area near Castra Road Overpass
No State stay rule
Heavy vehicle parking area on Bass Highway, northbound. Tasmania publishes no rule about staying overnight at one — neither permitting nor prohibiting it. Heavy vehicles use this one.
Signs override this page. Whatever is signed at the site is the rule that applies, no matter what is written here.
Where it is
-41.16630, 146.19064
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What's here
- Toilet
- Shelter
- Bin
- Picnic area
- BBQ
- Car park
- Information sign
Who decides whether you can stay
The council does. Whether a council must charge full cost turns on a market share test: if its non-powered public camping sites are more than 10 per cent of all non-powered camping sites within a 60 km drive, full cost attribution principles apply unless the policy otherwise permits.
Central Coast's instruments have not been read for this site, so whether staying here is permitted is unknown. Unknown is not permission. Read the sign, and the council's own page.
Where this comes from
- “If the total number of non-powered public camping sites provided by the public entity is more than 10 per cent of the total number of non-powered camping sites within the geographic market, the public entity must apply full cost attribution principles unless otherwise permitted under the arrangements in this policy statement.” — National Competition Policy: Applying Competitive Neutrality Principles to public camping in Tasmania (January 2019), Tasmanian Government, Department of Treasury and Finance. Retrieved 30 Aug 2026.
- Site location and amenities: Roadside Stops (State Owned), Department of State Growth (Tasmania) (CC BY 3.0 Australia). Retrieved 30 Aug 2026.
- Council area: not published with the site — derived from its coordinates against Suburbs and Localities (SAL) 2021 — ASGS Edition 3; Local Government Areas (LGA) 2021 — ASGS Edition 3, Australian Bureau of Statistics (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 30 Aug 2026.