El Dorado County Ordinance Code Sections 10.12.180 and 10.12.184 prohibit parking on County-owned roads, highways, and rights-of-way in unincorporated areas above 3,000 feet elevation and in the Lake Tahoe Basin Watershed Area whenever the Director of Transportation declares a snow removal condition; outside that area, California Vehicle Code Section 22651 governs removal of obstructing, hazardous, or long-parked vehicles.
Two parallel County ordinances regulate winter parking in El Dorado County's high-country unincorporated areas. Section 10.12.180 covers areas above 3,000 feet elevation, and Section 10.12.184 covers the Lake Tahoe Basin Watershed Area extending west to Strawberry through Tahoma and Meyers. Both prohibit parking on County-owned public roads, highways, or rights-of-way during periods when the Director of Transportation (or designee) has declared a 'snow removal condition' exists, except where signs designate parking. The County's 2025 Ordinance No. 5249 proposed replacing the discretionary 'snow removal condition' trigger with a fixed November 1 - May 1 prohibition to align with Placer County's approach, but the Board of Supervisors delayed final adoption on December 2, 2025, after community feedback from backcountry users. Outside this Tahoe context, El Dorado County does not impose comprehensive countywide on-street parking time limits in unincorporated areas; California Vehicle Code (CVC) Sections 22651 and 22669 control removal of vehicles obstructing traffic, blocking driveways or hydrants, parked with expired registration, or abandoned for 72 or more consecutive hours.
Vehicles parked in violation of Section 10.12.180 or 10.12.184 may be cited, moved by an officer, or removed and stored under CVC Section 22651. Violations are infractions enforced by the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office through the Citation Processing Center; on-street vehicle abatement is handled by the Sheriff's vehicle abatement program (state-funded under CVC Section 22710).
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