Stayed for 4 nights - brilliant park up. Right on the river, heaps of birds and ducks around which is lovely to see. Plenty of people rowing and kids swimming in the river. Short walk to town, short walk to toilets, plenty of bins, good phone reception, quiet at night. Great little park up with a generous 4 night max stay! The parking is busy during the day but about 4-5pm workers go home and there is plenty of space for campers. I cant imagine turning up and not being able to get a spot here. Not sure if the max stay is enforced as there seemed to be a chap there in his white van who looked like a local living there full time. Whanganui is also super underrated as a place - heaps of artsy galleries and murals, nice cafes, op shops and a pretty town centre with a cute old skool cinema. Thank you Whanganui council!

Attention: Don't park here on friday nights because they have a market on Saturday morning.

Don't listen the comment below, only two spots available. Full at 4pm

Nice freedom camping Around 10 spots available (very close to one another) Clean public toilets nearby River view

Average place, just a car park, nice flush toilets but unfortunately left to go somewhere else as there was a dodgy guy in a car staring at us

Clean, quiet, toilet close by. Wasn’t full overnight. Have to be out by 8am and as others have said no stays Friday night.

In a carpark, not allowed friday night as market on Saturday. Turned up as finishing, so got in no problem. Quiet night except for inconsiderate couple packing up with lots of banging of crockery etc at 0300hrs. Toilets nearby open all night, drinking water down the road, and rubbish bins.

Failed to notice that the site is technically closed on Friday nights - got a loud knock at 4:30am by the market folk! Also a pretty busy carpark with cars pulling up next to us until 1am

The market is set up early Saturday morning, so we were woken up during the night. It wasn't ideal in the middle of the night because you don't know what's going on. And you have to find a new spot quickly. There's no indication anywhere that it's not wise to be there on Friday evening. Otherwise, it's a great spot.

Nice spot close to river/town. Shopping centre 5minutes walk away with supermarket & warehouse for low cost things you may have forgotten. As others said be aware of the two 60min parks. Marked with yellow lines on the tarmac & have signs on path but won’t be easily seen if campervans already parked. Biggest advise….DO NOT park here on Friday night. There is a market on Saturday morning resulting in 4:30am wake up call! Highly recommend Jubilee Park 6 mins drive, toilets & showers during day