You have no right to wild camp in Slovenia. Triglav National Park bans camping and overnighting outside designated areas outright, and for a motorhome the problem starts before you sleep: driving, stopping or parking a motor vehicle off the road network is illegal under the Nature Conservation Act. What is new is the frame around all that. Since late January 2026 a new public order law has been in force, and the old wild camping rule still quoted all over the internet is repealed. Everything here was checked against the official texts on 23 August 2026.

The 2026 law: 100 to 500 euros

Until January 2026 the national ban sat in article 18 of the 2006 public order act ZJRM-1: no camping on public land not designated for it, no camping on private land without the owner’s consent, with a fine still written in tolars. That act is gone. Its replacement, ZJRM-2 (Uradni list RS 112/2025, published 29 December 2025, in force 30 days later), rewrites article 18. Whoever spends the night in a public place or other accessible space not intended for it, and disturbs someone by doing so, pays 100 to 500 euros. The second paragraph says municipalities may set the conditions, areas and rules for overnighting in vehicles on their territory.

Three things follow in practice. The blanket national camping offense has left the public order law. That still gives you no right to stay, because whether your night “disturbs” is decided on the spot by the officer, not by you. And the municipality can write its own rules, so the sign at the entrance beats any website, including this one.

Parking or camping: where the line runs for a motorhome

Under the Nature Conservation Act (Zakon o ohranjanju narave), driving, stopping and parking motor vehicles in the natural environment, meaning outside settlements and the road network, is prohibited. The meadow, the gravel track down to the river, the pull-off above the treeline: all of it is illegal as parking, whether or not you sleep. The stated exception is parking within 5 meters of the roadway, where traffic rules allow it and the landowner agrees. Verified on the government’s Natura 2000 site on 23 August 2026.

An ordinary public car park is different territory. There, article 18 applies, and whether a municipality allows, regulates or bans a night in a vehicle stands in its byelaw and on its sign. One quiet night, arriving late, no chairs, no awning, nothing outside the van, keeps you inside what the law actually sanctions, which is disturbance. It is not a promise. On private land, ask the owner; without a yes you are on someone else’s ground.

Triglav National Park: a flat ban

The park covers a large part of the Julian Alps, and its own act, ZTNP-1, settles the question directly. Article 13 prohibits tenting or camping outside designated places (“šotoriti ali taboriti zunaj za to določenih mest”) and prohibits parking motorhomes, caravans or vehicles used for living in outside designated areas. The park administration adds in its FAQs that not a single car park in the park is arranged for overnighting or caravans, and points to the campsites in the park municipalities. Open fires in the natural environment are banned too. Verified at tnp.si and in the official gazette on 23 August 2026.

Where you can sleep legally

The legal options are a kamp, a registered campsite, and a PZA, short for postajališče za avtodome, a designated motorhome stopover. Designated areas of exactly this kind are what the new law means when it hands overnighting in vehicles to the municipalities. How to run a night on one is the same everywhere: overnight parking done properly is the habit that keeps these places open.

Slovenia’s answer is stricter than Austria’s patchwork next door and close to what Croatia and Italy do. For how the rest of Europe splits the same question, start at the wild camping rules hub; every framework we have verified is on the rules pages.

Sources

  1. Zakon o varstvu javnega reda in miru (ZJRM-2), Uradni list RS 112/2025
  2. Zakon o varstvu javnega reda in miru (ZJRM-1), Uradni list RS 70/2006, repealed
  3. Zakon o Triglavskem narodnem parku (ZTNP-1), Uradni list RS 52/2010
  4. FAQs, Triglav National Park
  5. Code of conduct, Triglav National Park
  6. Vožnja z motornimi vozili je v naravi prepovedana, Natura 2000 Slovenia (gov.si)

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