Plumas County, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Plumas County does not impose a blanket 'no overnight parking' rule on its unincorporated county roads outside of snow season. Instead, overnight parking becomes a problem mainly in winter, when a vehicle left on the pavement, shoulder, cul-de-sac or end of a street overnight can block snowplows. Under Plumas County Code Section 4-3.502, unattended vehicles in the county road right-of-way that obstruct, delay, hinder or otherwise inconvenience snow removal may be removed at the owner's expense, and the County's Winter Parking Policy warns that with reduced staffing, fewer warnings are given and more vehicles are simply towed (CVC 22651(L)) with a citation. At designated snowmobile staging areas at Bucks Summit and Big Creek, parking is limited to 10 days maximum and vehicles must be marked so plow equipment can avoid them (Section 4-3.506.2). For general (non-snow) long-stay vehicles, the 72-hour rule of California Vehicle Code Section 22651(k) applies rather than a county ordinance; the County Code Enforcement page confirms it does not investigate vehicles parked on the street more than 72 hours.