Parking downtown Palm Springs | Informal Campsite

January 30th, 2024 by BeingHumanRV

Stayed in a 2023 Winnebago Revel. No one bothered me. No crack heads either. Perfect location.

December 19th, 2023 by autentica

The Palm Springs unlimited belardo parking lots are REAL, will not be "permanently closed" anytime soon (this city's unique climate relies heavily on touristry, and facilitates it through these free unlimited lots) ...and are very easy to park at. he Belardo lots are in no way closed. Have parked many nights in a row, several times, never had a single problem or sideways look. It is, thankfully, a diverse community – so yes, there is typical street noise, evidence of mental illness, homelessness, couples fighting after drinks on the late, the presence of law enforcement, etc. etc.

December 3rd, 2022 by andrewdboggs

Parked here and on the parallel street a couple times. Signage seems to indicate it's completely allowed. Great spot very close to restaurants/bars/coffee.
Caveat is that despite free parking for vehicles, the city has very strict camping in public rules that seem more targeted at tent campers/homeless. Our first night we noticed a guy with a sleeping bag in the parking lot, and woke up at 2am to hear a cop screaming at him and threatening to kick him for the better part of an hour. The guy was calmly explaining that he had nowhere to go, and the cop continued to yell and act like a complete psycho. The whole thing just put a bad taste in my mouth for the city, tbh. I get that it's illegal, but the way the man was treated was inhuman, especially when we're doing effectively the same thing 10 feet away, but it's fine because we're in a car.

...anyway, good spot!

November 28th, 2022 by sharpsusan

nice, quiet, and allowable overnight parking for our transit. would have been perfect if not for an aggressive cop berating a homeless person who was sleeping and not hurting anyone. the cop shouted loud, aggressive, and dehumanizing things for about 45 minutes at 3 am. worse noise and rancor than we've experienced from anyone, anywhere. we stayed put in the van because we didn't want to draw attention to ourselves. the cop was wildly upset and someone and certainly armed.

if that hadn't happened, I would have raved about this spot and it's proximity to downtown.

February 12th, 2022 by marqtaylor

Warning of Mentally unstable lady night & morning ranting about everything. Other vans around. Glad we are leaving today.

February 11th, 2022 by marqtaylor

Here near the PS Art Museum. A little noisy but hoping after 10pm it gets quite. There is a lady not sure if she is just talking out loud or to someone. But we feel safe inside. Here for the Tour de Palm Springs Bike Road.

April 16th, 2021 by buildrjr

We stayed here 2 nights in our 26’ bus after loving Palm Springs. Parked within vision of the Chamber of Commerce. Was peaceful and right in the mix of downtown PS.

The last morning we stayed, an interesting character walked by our bus around 7 am proclaiming “They f****** made it, I told you’d they’d make it, no f***** way.” He was harmless and went on his way. I assume he was intrigued by our rig, as it’s unique.

Would definitely stay here again.

January 7th, 2021 by grafatti4

We were able to fit our 27 ft bus in this parking lot backing in with the clearance we have. A local shop owner said it was a great lot and safe and it was! Will definitely one stay here again overnight!

October 3rd, 2020 by ana.crichton37

Spent the night here with no issues in a van. I think there were a decent number of other people also sleeping in their vans with no issues for anyone. It’s just a little hot but great other than that

January 28th, 2020 by /blogs/66827

Slept in this parking lot one night. Not too many lights. Was crowded when I got there at 7PM but by 10PM it was pretty empty. A really sketchy guy approached my van in the morning and asked me if I wanted to be in a prono for $4000. Seriously. So it might be a little sketch.

But it was very quiet and would stay there again but park right under a light. Three stars just becasue it can be busy and the porno dude.

December 2nd, 2019 by Third Wave Dirtbag

Stayed here on 2 non consecutive nights with no issues, parking after 7 & leaving by 8. The street parking wasn’t full, & felt more stealth than the parking lot. Pretty quiet, walking distance to downtown.

August 17th, 2019 by jnnfrkhlr

Nice place to stay for a night. Arrived at around 11pm and woke up at 7 am. No one bothered us.

May 22nd, 2019 by jasmine.o.rourke

Does seem like a lot of car parks you would be able to stay the night, but stayed in this one, good location, no one bothered us.

March 20th, 2019 by bicitours.blogspot.com

This parking worked well for one night in a camper van. Not good for big rigs.
Quiet at night. We slept well.

December 8th, 2018 by instagram.com/roaminginavan

worked well for a night. quiet in the morning. loud until midnight on a friday. no issues.

December 4th, 2018 by stephanopoly

ok place to park but was woken up by construction noise at 5am.

November 26th, 2018 by nessythewesty

“FREE UNLIMITED PARKING”
Very quiet parking lot, slept through the night with no issues in our Westfalia *did not pop the top*

Police rolled through to check out the van and read some of our stickers and drove away without a disturbance

January 19th, 2018 by johanroos1961

In Palm Springs are several places, also in downtown, Where you can park free for 24-hours. We stayed on this place with our 23 ft RV with No-problems also not in the night. On thursday evening streetfair in downtown. Lot of restaurants and also casino with all-you-can-eat restaurant and fast internet 5 min walking distance