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Idaho 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. How much room does the Idaho handbook suggest leaving when you stop behind another vehicle?
Correct answer: Enough that you can still see where its rear tires touch the ground
Stopping where you can still see the rear tires of the car ahead meeting the pavement keeps you from being pushed into it and leaves room to pull around a vehicle that will not restart.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Stopping
2. You are securing a car with a manual transmission after parking it in Idaho. What should you do with the gearbox?
Correct answer: Leave the car in gear
A stick-shift car is left sitting in gear, while an automatic is placed in park; either way you set the brake, take the keys, and lock up.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Parking
3. How far back from a stop sign, a yield sign, or a traffic signal must an Idaho driver park?
Correct answer: 30 feet
Thirty feet of clearance keeps the control device visible to approaching drivers, which is a wider buffer than the twenty feet required at crosswalks.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — No-Parking Zones
4. What is "double parking," which Idaho does not allow?
Correct answer: Stopping in the street alongside a vehicle already parked at the curb
Double parking means leaving your car in the roadway alongside a vehicle that is already parked at the curb, which blocks the travel lane.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — No-Parking Zones
5. How must a vehicle be positioned when parked along a public road in Idaho?
Correct answer: Parallel to the curb, within 18 inches of it, facing the same direction as traffic
The requirement is to sit parallel to the curb or road edge, no more than eighteen inches away from it, pointed the same way the traffic on your side is moving.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Parking
6. What privilege does an Idaho vehicle displaying the accessible-parking symbol receive?
Correct answer: It may use reserved spaces at no charge and with no time limit
A vehicle carrying the plate or placard may occupy a reserved space with no fee and no limit on how long it stays; drivers without the credential who use those spaces can be fined.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Handicapped Parking
7. What must an Idaho driver do before pulling out of a private road onto a street?
Correct answer: Halt short of the sidewalk, then give way to people on foot and to vehicles on the street
The law puts a mandatory halt ahead of the sidewalk, and both walkers and street traffic go by before you edge out into the lane.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Stopping
8. You are parking facing uphill beside a curb in Idaho. What is the correct wheel position?
Correct answer: Turned away from the curb so the wheels come back to rest against it
Facing up the grade you point the wheels out toward the road and let the car settle back so a tire rests against the curb; where there is no curb, you aim them toward the edge of the road instead.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Parking on a Hill or Incline
9. You are parking facing downhill next to a curb in Idaho. Which way do the front wheels go?
Correct answer: Sharply toward the curb, so they rest against it
Aiming the wheels into the curb means that if the car creeps, the tire catches on the curb instead of rolling out into the traffic lane.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Parking on a Hill or Incline
10. How close to a fire hydrant may an Idaho driver park?
Correct answer: No closer than 15 feet
Fifteen feet is the buffer required around a hydrant, which is smaller than the twenty feet reserved at a crosswalk and the thirty feet at a stop sign or signal.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — No-Parking Zones
11. Traffic is backed up beyond a railroad crossing in Idaho. When may you start across the tracks?
Correct answer: Only when there is room on the other side for the full length of your vehicle
You wait until the space on the far side will hold your whole vehicle, because no part of a car may ever be left sitting on the rails.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Intersections
12. May an Idaho driver park a vehicle in a marked bicycle lane?
Correct answer: No; bike lanes are travel lanes and must not be blocked
Bike lanes are travel lanes set aside for riders, so leaving a vehicle in one is not allowed and neither is otherwise blocking it.
Source: Idaho Driver's Handbook — Bicyclists
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