Little Rock, AR Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Sec. 36-513 governs where vehicles may sit at a Little Rock residence, and it uses a deliberately broad definition of motor vehicle that reaches passenger vehicles, boats, campers, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, golf carts, ATVs and trailers. Subsection (h) then adds a rule aimed at the public street rather than the yard: boats, boat trailers and camping trailers are prohibited from being parked or stored in the public right-of-way for a period exceeding twenty-four (24) hours.

Three features of that sentence matter to a Little Rock homeowner. It is a time limit rather than a flat ban, so pulling a boat to the curb to load it or rinse it is not what subsection (h) targets; leaving it there past the 24-hour mark is. It applies to the public right-of-way, meaning the street and the strip the city controls out front, so the clock is not running on a trailer kept back on the driveway. And it names three specific things: a boat, the trailer a boat rides on, and a camping trailer.

The exemption sits in the same subsection: this does not include motorized or self-propelled recreational vehicles. A motorhome that drives under its own power is not caught by the 24-hour right-of-way cap, while the towable camper parked behind it is. Residents regularly assume the rule runs the other way, since the larger vehicle is the one that looks like the problem.

The rest of Sec. 36-513 still governs both. Where any of these vehicles is kept in a front yard or a corner side yard, it must sit on a designated driveway or parking pad, paved or unpaved, rather than on open lawn. The subsection has been amended repeatedly, most recently by Ord. No. 22,599, §§ 1, 2, adopted 4-1-25, following Ord. No. 15,842 (4-17-90), Ord. No. 20,231 (3-2-10) and Ord. No. 21,378 (3-21-17).