To travel by camper, it is essential that you know the difference between camping and parking. You can park anywhere another car could and sleep there, but camping is prohibited by the applicable traffic regulations.
This type of vehicle, camper and motorhomes, the most common is that they travel to campsites. However, it is not the only way to travel with them. And the most neophytes of the ‘camping’ they often wonder if they can camping or parking anywhere, or if there is any kind of limitation. And the key is precisely there: in which they exist differences between camping and parking our vehicle.
These differences, which are what we are going to see next, are precisely those that define what we can do, and what not, when we go on a trip with our motorhome or our campervan and we do not want to go to a campsite. In any case, I am telling you that yes you can park wherever you want. Or rather, where other tourism could also do it.
Parking and camping are not the same, where can you be, and where not, with your camper?
All this is collected by the General Traffic Regulations, in which it is established that the stop and the parking lot it is legal on public roads as long as it is carried out in the manner and manner in which they are indicated, and as long as it does not constitute a danger or an obstacle to movement. The vehicle, of course, has to be placed in a authorized place for parking and in the manner indicated for the same.
The above means that you motorhome or camper van You can park in the same place as any other car, under the same conditions and with the same limitations. What you cannot do is camp on the beach, for example, due to the limitations established by the Coastal Law –in its article 33.5- and also article 68 of the General Traffic Regulations.
But park and camp, as we mentioned previously, it is not the same. Our vehicle will be parked, and not camping, as long as occupies the same surface as in progress. That is, it will be considered camping when elements such as the awning, windows, chairs or others have been deployed. And while the interior of the vehicle is a private spaceInside it you can be eating, dining or sleeping, without any problem, as long as it is parked correctly.
So, when you go on a trip, remember that you can park just like the rest of the vehicles without any inconvenience. And that whenever you are parked, and not camping, nobody can tell you absolutely anything by being inside your vehicle sleeping –like a trucker- or eating. Only motorhomes should be careful with some municipal ordinances that expressly prohibit their parking in urban areas.