Plumas County, CA Parking Rules: Oversized Vehicle Parking (2026)

Plumas County does not maintain a county ordinance limiting the size or height of vehicles parked on its unincorporated streets, nor a residential oversized-vehicle permit scheme. Oversized and recreational vehicles parked on county roads are therefore subject to the general California Vehicle Code: Section 22500 prohibits parking that blocks traffic lanes, intersections, crosswalks, driveways or sidewalks, and Section 22507.5 would be the mechanism a county could use to restrict large commercial vehicles in residential districts (no such Plumas ordinance was found). The county-specific rule that most affects big rigs, fifth-wheels, travel trailers and boats is the Winter Parking Policy: it states the snow-removal parking prohibition applies to 'trailers, boats, RVs, and disabled vehicles' as well as cars, and forbids leaving them on the pavement, shoulder, at the end of a street or around a cul-de-sac where they obstruct plowing (Plumas County Code Section 4-3.502; California Vehicle Code Section 22510). Long-term parking of an oversized vehicle on a county road also runs into the 72-hour default of California Vehicle Code Section 22651(k). On private property, an oversized but inoperable vehicle is limited by the one-non-operational-vehicle abatement rule (Title 5, Chapter 8).