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 Park — Albany Lake Grace Rd · Heavy Vehicle Rest Area · toilet

• Ballagnomia / Wooriba Homestead 24hr Rest Area, Balladonia — Eyre Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Beasly Creek, Nanutarra — Nanutarra Munjina Rd · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Cockburn, Wijilawarrim — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Dunham Rest Area, Durack — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Ellendale, Mount Hardman — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Galena North, Ajana — North West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Galena South, Ajana — North West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Gascoyne River Sth Branch, Peak Hill — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Goldwire, Lagrange — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• House Creek, Nanutarra — Nanutarra Munjina Rd · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Jerramungup Roadhouse (Ampol) — South Coast Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Kirkalocka Station, Daggar Hills — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Koorarawalyee (Boorabbin) 24 Hr Rest Area — Great Eastern Hwy · Minor Rest Area · toilet

• Leychesters Rest, Ord River — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Lyndon River, Minilya — North West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Mary Pool, Mueller Ranges — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Miaree Pool, Maitland — North West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area

• Munglinup Rest Area — South Coast Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Nerren Nerren — North West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Ngumban Cliff, Kupartiya — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Nillibubblica, Roebuck — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Private Auski, Karijini — Great Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Private Capricorn Roadhouse — Great Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Private Fortescue, Mardie — North West Coastal Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Private Karratha, Cooya Pooya — North West Coastal Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Private Nanutarra — North West Coastal Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Private Pardoo — Great Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Private Sandfire, Eighty Mile Beach — Great Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Robe River, Fortescue — North West Coastal Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Southern Hill 24hr Rest Area, Fraser Range — Eyre Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Spring Creek, Ord River — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Stanley, Eighty Mile Beach — Great Northern Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Ten Mile Rocks 24hr Rest Area, Fraser Range — Eyre Hwy · Major Rest Area · toilet

• Willare — Great Northern Hwy · Roadhouse · toilet

• Wubin Rtaa — Great Northern Hwy · Heavy Vehicle Rest Area · toilet

• Yannarie River — North 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), compilation 02-i0-00, as at 1 September 2024 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 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), compilation 02-i0-00, as at 1 September 2024 (official version), Western Australian Parliamentary Counsel's Office. Retrieved 12 Oct 2026.