Highlands County, FL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

218 regulates parking and storage of recreational vehicles, travel trailers, camping trailers, boats and utility trailers on residential and residential-use agricultural lots in unincorporated Highlands County. Recreational vehicles cannot be located in any front yard, and must stay at least seven and one-half feet from any side or rear lot line, though the ordinance carves out one boat 18 feet or less in length and six feet or less in average height, or one utility trailer of the same dimensions, which may be parked in a driveway as close as seven and one-half feet from any property line.

A recreational vehicle may only be stored on property occupied by its owner, must be kept in safe, usable condition, and may be parked anywhere on the lot for 24 hours for loading and unloading. Vehicles used as a disabled owner's primary transportation get more latitude, permitted in any yard at the same seven-and-a-half-foot side and rear setback. The ordinance bars using a recreational vehicle as a residence, work space, accessory structure or utility building, and forbids hooking it up to permanent utilities, with one narrow exception: a guest of the property owner may live or sleep in the RV for up to one week in any 30-day period.

Outside residential districts, recreational vehicles may be parked or stored in B-3 and less restrictive commercial zones, and used for living only in campground and RV zoning districts.