Where you can legally stay overnight in Western Australia
These are the 44 stopping places, out of 1,673, where Main Roads records that a 24-hour stay is available. One of the situations regulation 11 allows is camping for up to 24 consecutive hours in a caravan or other vehicle on a road side rest area. The regulations define a road side rest area as an area designated by a traffic sign, erected in accordance with a written law, as an area that may be used for 24 hours for resting, stopping or camping in a vehicle. The traffic sign is what brings a place within the exception.
Signs override this page. Whatever is signed at the site is the rule that applies, no matter what is written here.
That number is the point of this page. A list of “free camps in WA” with hundreds of entries is describing pull-offs, not places the regulations bring inside the 24-hour exception. Check the sign when you arrive: it is what the exception turns on, and it can have changed since this snapshot.
- Albany Lake Grace Road Heavy Vehicle Truck Bays, Stirling Range National ParkAlbany Lake Grace Rd · Heavy Vehicle Rest Area · toilet
- Ballagnomia / Wooriba Homestead 24hr Rest Area, BalladoniaEyre Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Beasly Creek, NanutarraNanutarra Munjina Rd · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Cockburn, WijilawarrimGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Dunham Rest Area, DurackGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Ellendale, Mount HardmanGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Galena North, AjanaNorth West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Galena South, AjanaNorth West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Gascoyne River Sth Branch, Peak HillGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Goldwire, LagrangeGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- House Creek, NanutarraNanutarra Munjina Rd · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Jerramungup Roadhouse (Ampol)South Coast Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Kirkalocka Station, Daggar HillsGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Koorarawalyee (Boorabbin) 24 Hr Rest AreaGreat Eastern Hwy · Minor Rest Area · toilet
- Leychesters Rest, Ord RiverGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Lyndon River, MinilyaNorth West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Mary Pool, Mueller RangesGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Miaree Pool, MaitlandNorth West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area
- Munglinup Rest AreaSouth Coast Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Nerren NerrenNorth West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Ngumban Cliff, KupartiyaGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Nillibubblica, RoebuckGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Private Auski, KarijiniGreat Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Private Capricorn RoadhouseGreat Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Private Fortescue, MardieNorth West Coastal Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Private Karratha, Cooya PooyaNorth West Coastal Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Private NanutarraNorth West Coastal Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Private PardooGreat Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Private Sandfire, Eighty Mile BeachGreat Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Robe River, FortescueNorth West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Southern Hill 24hr Rest Area, Fraser RangeEyre Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Spring Creek, Ord RiverGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Stanley, Eighty Mile BeachGreat Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Ten Mile Rocks 24hr Rest Area, Fraser RangeEyre Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- WillareGreat Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet
- Wubin RtaaGreat Northern Hwy · Heavy Vehicle Rest Area · toilet
- Yannarie RiverNorth West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Rest area near Lake Argyle (E95F74B7)Victoria Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Rest area near Darradup (468D8897)Brockman Hwy · Minor Rest Area · toilet
- Rest area near Juna Downs (9DBA3A5A)Karijini Dr · Heavy Vehicle Rest Area · toilet
- Rest area near Roelands (319CE48E)South Western Hwy · Minor Rest Area
- Rest area near Ravensthorpe (E40AB56E)South Coast Hwy · Heavy Vehicle Rest Area
- Rest area near Marble Bar (D3DD6A49)Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet
- Rest area near Ravensthorpe (52840285)South Coast Hwy · Heavy Vehicle Rest Area
Where this comes from
- “for up to 24 consecutive hours in a caravan or other vehicle on a road side rest area” — Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Regulations 1997 (WA), current compilation, Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 30 Aug 2026.
- “road side rest area means an area designated by a traffic sign erected in accordance with a written law, as an area which may be used for 24 hours for — (a) resting; or (b) stopping; or (c) camping, in a vehicle;” — Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Regulations 1997 (WA), current compilation, Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 30 Aug 2026.