Kenosha County, WI Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

030(u) defines a recreational vehicle broadly: boats, jet skis, mini-bikes, trail bikes, off-road vehicles, motor homes, travel trailers, camping trailers, and boat, motor bike, snowmobile, or vehicle trailers all count. Unlike the residential-district truck rules in subsection (r), RVs are permitted in every zoning district the county administers, subject to three conditions in paragraph 2. They may be stored inside an enclosed accessory structure without limit. Outside a structure, no more than two recreational vehicles may sit in a side or rear yard, and none may sit in the street yard, meaning the area facing the road is off-limits entirely.

Any RV stored outside a structure must belong to the property owner or a resident of the property, unless it sits at an approved commercial storage facility. Parking or storage on a vacant lot is barred outright, closing off using an empty parcel as overflow RV storage. Paragraph 3 adds a use restriction on top of the parking limits: a recreational vehicle can never serve as a dwelling unit or temporary housing, including while a permanent home on the same lot is under construction, and it cannot double as an accessory storage structure.

This section governs the towns that have adopted Kenosha County zoning; the City of Kenosha, the City of Lake Geneva, and the county's incorporated villages set their own RV-parking limits.