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Vermont 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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12 sample Parking & Stopping questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the official handbook reference. Read through them, then take the quiz above.
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1. How close to the nearest rail of a railroad crossing may you park?
Correct answer: No closer than 50 feet
Fifty feet from the closest rail is the limit, and leaving a vehicle on the tracks themselves is never allowed.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Where You May Not Park
2. You park on a two-lane street with a curb. How close must your right wheels be to it?
Correct answer: Within 12 inches
The right wheels have to sit no more than a foot from the curb or the edge of the road, and the vehicle must face the way traffic moves.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Parking Your Vehicle
3. How far from a fire hydrant must you keep your parked vehicle?
Correct answer: At least 6 feet
Parking is barred inside six feet of a hydrant, one entry on a long list of places the manual rules out.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Where You May Not Park
4. The manual warns against parking where your vehicle cannot be seen from how far away?
Correct answer: 150 feet
Avoid a hill, a curve or any place where approaching drivers would not see the vehicle from a hundred and fifty feet in either direction.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Parking Your Vehicle
5. What two steps does the manual require when you park on a hill?
Correct answer: Point the front wheels aside and set the parking brake
Turning the front wheels and setting the parking brake together keep the vehicle from rolling out into the roadway.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Parking on Hills
6. Which of these does the manual list as an illegal place to leave your vehicle?
Correct answer: Alongside another vehicle already parked at the side of the street
Stopping beside a vehicle that is already parked appears on the prohibited list, along with sidewalks, crosswalks, intersections, bridges, tunnels and bicycle lanes.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Where You May Not Park
7. Which way must a parked vehicle face on a Vermont street?
Correct answer: The same direction traffic flows
Vehicles park headed the same way as the traffic on that side of the road.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Parking Your Vehicle
8. How far back from a stop sign or a traffic light must a parked vehicle be?
Correct answer: 30 feet
Keep thirty feet between a parked vehicle and a stop sign, a traffic light, or a flashing red or yellow light.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Where You May Not Park
9. On the road test the examiner has you stop on a hill. What are you expected to do?
Correct answer: Set the parking brake and shift to neutral
Signal right, stop at the roadside, set the parking or emergency brake and select neutral; that brake has to hold the vehicle without any rollback.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Stopping and Starting On a Hill
10. How close to a crosswalk at an intersection may you park?
Correct answer: No closer than 20 feet
Twenty feet is the minimum distance from a crosswalk at an intersection, which keeps sight lines open for people crossing.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Where You May Not Park
11. Beginning a parallel park on the road test, how far should you stop from the vehicle you will back around?
Correct answer: Two to three feet
Pull up beside that vehicle two or three feet away, signal, shift into reverse, and check every direction, including over your left shoulder, before backing.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Parallel Parking
12. You must leave your vehicle beside a rural highway. What does the manual require?
Correct answer: Every wheel off the traveled part of the road
Off the traveled portion means every wheel, and you should avoid any spot where the vehicle would be hidden from approaching drivers.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Parking Your Vehicle
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