Yakima, WA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Yakima does not have a general citywide overnight on-street parking ban for properly registered passenger vehicles. The downtown parking program enforces a two-hour on-street limit only between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays; parking is free before 8 a.m., after 5 p.m., and on weekends, so a passenger vehicle parked downtown in the evening through the next morning does not violate the time-limit rule. On residential streets outside the downtown core, the general framework of YMC Chapter 9.50 (Parking and Rules of the Road) and RCW 46.61.570 (Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited in specified places) apply at all hours: no parking within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant, twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection, in any intersection, on a sidewalk, in front of a public or private driveway, or in any place official signs prohibit stopping. The state's unauthorized-vehicle rule under RCW 46.55.085 supplies the practical long-stay limit: law enforcement may attach a notice tag to a vehicle on the public right-of-way, and if the vehicle is not moved within twenty-four hours of the tag, it may be impounded under Chapter 46.55 RCW. Sleeping or camping in a vehicle on a Yakima street is separately regulated and is not protected by the absence of a general overnight ban. Snow-removal sidewalk obligations under YMC Chapter 8.88 do not directly affect overnight parking but interact with city snow plowing on heavy-snow nights. Enforcement: Yakima Police Department non-emergency (509) 575-6200.