Logan: sleeping in your car

Vehicle camping: prohibited

Logan City Council's local laws changed in 2022 to prohibit camping on council owned or controlled land, including roadsides, footpaths, road reserves, parks and other public places. The council states the changes are not meant to affect people stopping for short periods during the day or when vehicles are broken down.

The prohibition covers council owned or controlled land; state rest areas sit on the state-controlled road network. The council notes the rules are not meant to affect short daytime stops or broken-down vehicles, and points people experiencing hardship to local support services.

Signs override this page. Whatever is signed at the site is the rule that applies, no matter what is written here.

Where this applies

The hatched area is the whole of Logan City. It is the reach of the local law, not a survey of where a vehicle may park: the prohibition is on public places inside that boundary, and it says nothing about private property or a licensed caravan park. The dots are the state rest areas listed below — amber where there is a shower — and the state's own rule governs a fatigue stop at one of those even inside the hatching.

State rest areas here (8)

• Activity Park, Windarooup to 20 h
• ForestGlen Park, Browns Plainstoilet · up to 20 h
• Gould Adams Park, Kingstonup to 20 h
• Hopkins Park, Veresdaleup to 20 h
• Lancaster Park, Waterford Westtoilet · up to 20 h
• Logan River Parklands, Beenleightoilet · up to 20 h
• Logan Village Historical Parkup to 20 h
• Willmann Park, Belivahup to 20 h

Where this comes from

• “Our local laws changed in 2022 to prohibit camping on Council owned or controlled land which includes roadsides, footpaths, road reserves, parks and other public places” — Camping on Council owned or controlled land, Logan City Council. Retrieved 30 Aug 2026 (page text retrieved via Internet Archive snapshot of 13 Dec 2025).