Do unto others....
Remember the Golden Rule? It applies to RVing too. If you wouldn't like it if someone did it in your community, on the street in front of your home, don't do it to to others'. It's not a legal thing it is a consideration thing. So, negatory to picking a residential street at random and setting up camp for the night. Note this is not the same as parking for a few hours while you are sightseeing around the corner. Using a parking lot for overnight accommodations requires getting the store manager's permission ahead of time and not using slides, awnings, grills, camp chairs, etc. Fewer and fewer large firms allow RV overnight parking in their lots because of liability worries.
Your best bet is to do a wee bit of planning and know your options before you go--campgrounds and BLM properties in the areas you will be visiting. Planners like to at least make reservations for each travel night in advance so they know where their pillow will be parked; those who prefer to wing it should at least have the resources to locate their options on the fly. Sometimes you just get stuck--caught up in weather, a breakdown, or "it took longer than we thought"-- and your options are limited. But the rule applies, ask permission, be considerate, and if you wouldn't do it in your town or on the street in front of your house don't do it in mine.
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