Walmart....."NO......"

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mostly its the "Towns" and "Cities" demanding it. aka Police issues.

my opinion

I like to do chain restaurants. that welcome "RV"'s

Most of the time it is a local city ordnance that prohibits overnight parking.

Either local area RV parks or motels, or local residents who see overnight parking as a security risk or just ‘unsightly’.

What has your city council/ county commission been up to lately?

downtheroad wrote:
Always have seen a bunch of rigs parked (camping) at our local Walmart.

Apparently, RVers wore out their welcome.

Town folks/Town council probably finally got tired/fed up with the 'stealth' camping.

There are always a few that abuse and hence make it necessary to take stronger actions.


Local Walmart got to the point that a shootout with Police and death of one of the vagrants push town council into action.
Should have occurred earlier but w/o ordinance/signage Police were regulated to 'shooing' them away only to have them return.

Kudos to the town council.

downtheroad wrote:
Always have seen a bunch of rigs parked (camping) at our local Walmart.

Yesterday there was a crew putting up signs on all the light poles. "NO OVERNIGHT PARKING."
Just thought it was interesting. Seems to be a trend everywhere.

Possibly city ordinance change.
Could also be that there were a lot of "campers" living in the parking lot in run down trailers, trashing it up and causing trouble.
Like most things, all it takes is a few idiots to ruin it for everyone else.

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
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What has your city council/ county commission been up to lately?

Mostly they have been raising my taxes.....:E

I usually stop later in the evening, when most places are closed ie, Kohls, Lowes, Home Depot, etc. Most of the time, I'm gone before they open.

I have seen many, many Walmarts with those signs. One is in Oregon where I often spend the night. They are required by city ordinance to put up the sign, but there's no 'law' that says the cops need to shoo anyone away. Unless Walmart requests it. So we RV'ers park overnight but are never disturbed, unless we act like asses and disturb the peace.

It's likely the local municipality protecting itself from poor people.

More and more communities are turning against folks who for good reason or bad can no longer afford a house or apartment.

Just my two cents

I stayed at a Walmart in PA multiple times over a couple of years and every time I asked for permission they told me to park out by the edge by the no overnight signs. Was never bothered accept by the teenages that liked to race down the mostly empty parking lot in the middle of the night. I don't use Walmart often but after dark when I'm going to be up and on the road and dawn it is handy.