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Can You Park an RV Overnight at Home Depot?

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Written by Steve Johnson
November 20, 2019

rv parking at home depotHistorically, many RVers, and truckers, could park their vehicles overnight at Home Depot, and sleep in them. But that has changed in recent years as Home Depot began a campaign of selling off rarely used portions of their parking lots to smaller businesses. As a result, many Home Depot parking lots have shrunk, and at the same time, became more congested with smaller businesses, making it difficult for RVs and trucks to maneuver.

Can You Park an RV Overnight at Home Depot?

Home Depot doesn’t have a corporate policy to allow RVs to park overnight in their parking lots. That’s a decision left to each store manager. Historically, store managers have allowed RVs to park overnight, assuming they leave the following morning.

Even though that’s still the case today, Home Depot parking lots are shrinking across the country. The company had maintained a corporate policy of owning all of the land they owned stores on. With more than 2,200 stores across North America, that’s a lot of land. Hence, the Atlanta, GA-based company began selling off rarely used portions of their parking lot, which are the portions that RVers would typically park in.

Because most Home Depots close at 10:00pm, you can still find plenty of open areas to park in late at night. However, most Home Depots open between 5:00am and 6:00am, and thus you may find yourself getting boxed in by other cars if you sleep in late.

Many Cities Have Banned Overnight Parking Everywhere

In an attempt to address the rising trend of people living in their RVs, many cities have enacted ordinances to prohibit parking overnight in the wee hours of the morning, as well as sleeping in their vehicles overnight. This applies even on private property such as Home Depots. It would even apply to Wal-Marts, Costco, and Camping Worlds.

Larger cities and metropolitan regions have become proactive in sending parking enforcement officers into shopping centers to cite violators. Denver, CO and surrounding cities is a great example. While Home Depot still doesn’t mind RVers parking overnight, they can’t do anything about city parking enforcement officers kicking them out.

Tips for Parking Your RV Overnight at Home Depot

  • Leave yourself some room for easier exit in the morning. Because Home Depots open early in the morning, many at 5:00 AM, you don’t want to get boxed in trying to leave.
  • If the Home Depot is located in a shopping center with other businesses, try parking your RV where it straddles proximity to the other businesses, thus blurring the lines on whose parking lot you’re actually parking on.
  • Be modest, don’t put out your slides, don’t roll out your awning, don’t sit in your patio chairs on the parking lot. You can count on the store manager or assistant manager leaving at 10:00 pm when the store closes, and you don’t want to give them a reason to kick you out.

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6 thoughts on “Can You Park an RV Overnight at Home Depot?”
  • Tim says:
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    I wish I could battle the war against overnight parking.

    May 26, 2020 at 6:34 pm
    • Boondocker's Bible says:
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      How so? Are you getting kicked out?

      May 26, 2020 at 6:37 pm
  • Jenny Jones says:
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    We are kicked out of every place we try to stay. Boondocking in city limits is humiliating! Car and RV overnight parking is impossible. What do these businesses expect people to do?

    August 26, 2020 at 3:15 pm
    • Steve Johnson says:
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      Many cities have laws against sleeping in a vehicle or camping. Hence, it’s often due to compliance with civic codes, rather than businesses not wanting you there. You may be better off finding a street curb to park, and then blacking out your windows so that no light can be seen from outside. As along as a police officer cannot tell if you’re inside, he will pass you by.

      August 27, 2020 at 6:15 am
  • Pat says:
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    What has. America come to. Well you can always head for Alaska We have great places to park you RV. Up here g toucan live in a car or tent. Buy some land which is auction off by the state of Alaska. (DNR) every year low as 500 down and 160 a month

    December 5, 2020 at 7:01 am
  • Robert says:
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    What if your tow vehicle has disabled plates and you are towing a travel trailer?

    December 11, 2020 at 11:13 pm
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