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Alaska Car / Permit: Parking & Stopping practice test
Legal and illegal parking, colored curbs, distances from hydrants and crossings, and how to park safely on hills.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. You are parking beside a roadway outside city limits in Alaska. What does the manual require?
Correct answer: Get all four wheels off the pavement if you can
Get all four wheels clear of the pavement where that is possible. After dark leave the parking lights or low beams burning unless the vehicle sits at least eight feet from the pavement edge.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
2. What three things does the Alaska manual say a driver must do before pulling out of a parking space?
Correct answer: Look, signal, and give way to other traffic
Look, signal and give up the right-of-way to whatever is coming before you move out.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
3. How far must an Alaska driver stay from fire apparatus that has stopped with its emergency lights flashing?
Correct answer: 500 feet
Do not park within 500 feet of fire apparatus that has stopped and is showing flashing red or blue lights.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
4. How are no-parking zones usually marked in Alaska cities and towns?
Correct answer: By a sign or a yellow or red painted curb
They are shown by a sign or by a curb painted yellow or red.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
5. How far from a stop sign does Alaska prohibit parking?
Correct answer: 30 feet
The manual sets 30 feet as the minimum distance from a stop sign, alongside its other parking limits such as 15 feet from a hydrant and 50 feet from a rail crossing.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
6. Which of these is on the Alaska manual's list of situations requiring a stop?
Correct answer: A flashing red light
The list includes a flashing red light: halt there, then continue only once nothing is in the way and moving is safe. Stop signs, red lights, rail crossing gates and school buses appear on the same list.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Stops Required
7. What stopping performance does Alaska require of a passenger vehicle's foot brake?
Correct answer: Within 25 feet from 20 mph
The foot brake has to bring a passenger vehicle to a halt within 25 feet from a speed of 20 mph, and the parking brake must hold the vehicle still on any grade.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Required Equipment
8. How far from a fire hydrant does Alaska prohibit parking?
Correct answer: 15 feet
Keep at least 15 feet away from a hydrant. Other listed minimums include 30 feet from a stop sign, 20 feet from a fire station entrance, 20 feet from a crosswalk or intersection, and 50 feet from a rail crossing.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
9. Which way should the front wheels point when you leave a vehicle parked facing downhill next to an Alaska curb?
Correct answer: Toward the curb
Facing downhill, crank the front wheels in toward the curb. Facing uphill, turn them away from it.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
10. How close to the curb must your wheels be when parallel parking in Alaska?
Correct answer: Within 12 inches
The wheels have to end up within 12 inches of the near curb.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
11. What does the Alaska manual say about leaving keys in a parked, unattended vehicle?
Correct answer: Remove them from the vehicle
Take the ignition keys or fobs with you. Leaving them in the vehicle invites theft.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Parking
12. Where does Alaska prohibit parking on a highway except in an emergency?
Correct answer: On the paved roadway, the shoulders, or anywhere within the right-of-way
Except when an emergency forces it, you may not park on the paved travel surface, on the shoulders, or anywhere else inside the right-of-way.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Leaving the Expressway
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