Bonner County, ID Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

The rule lives in Title 5, Chapter 2 of the Bonner County Revised Code and covers one parcel only: the land described in Ordinance 414, effective September 1, 2001, and commonly known as Bonner Park West. Section 5-202(B) says there shall be no overnight camping anywhere within the park, and it lists recreational vehicles, motor vehicles, boats, tents, campers, trailers and any other facility, contrivance or vehicle. A person sleeping in a parked car is covered just as a person in a tent is.

The same section also closes the park from sunset to sunrise and bars anyone from the park during those hours, so a camper faces two separate rules. Boats and water vehicles cannot be docked or parked overnight at the beach or launch area, although a boat on a trailer can stay overnight in the parking lot.

The county's other campground area, the Garfield Bay Recreation Area, has its own chapter. Section 5-320 defines camping as any overnight stay in a recreational vehicle, motor vehicle, boat, trailer, tent, camper or other vehicle, and section 5-330(B)(5) bars overnight camping in the day use area. Paid camping there requires a registration envelope and fees, with a maximum stay of ten consecutive days in one spot under section 5-380.

Chapters 2 and 3 of Title 5 print no cleanup protocol, notice period or property storage procedure for camps. Those chapters regulate use of two county recreation sites, not camping on other county land, and the Revised Code sections read for this page do not address camping on city streets in Sandpoint, Ponderay or Priest River, which are separate cities.