Where parking is forbidden — Minnesota Permit Test
Where parking is forbidden on the Minnesota permit test — 7 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
You may not park within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection.
A car parked at the corner hides a person stepping off the curb until the moment they are in front of you.
Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection
You may not park within 30 feet of a flashing light, stop sign or traffic control signal at the side of a road.
A parked car in front of a stop sign takes the sign away from everyone approaching it.
Within 30 feet of any flashing light, stop sign or traffic control signal on the side of a public road
You may not park within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.
A train overhangs the rails by several feet, and it cannot steer around anything.
Within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing
You may not park within 10 feet of a fire hydrant.
A fire crew needs to get a hose onto the hydrant without breaking a window to reach it.
Within 10 feet of a fire hydrant
You may not park on a crosswalk or sidewalk, within an intersection, on any bridge or in a highway tunnel.
Each of those is a place with no room to spare, where a stopped car forces somebody into traffic.
On any bridge
Double parking, which is stopping on the traffic side of a vehicle already parked at the curb, is not allowed.
The second car blocks a whole lane and hides the first one’s door as it opens.
On the traffic side of any vehicle parked at a curb or at the edge of a highway. This is known as “double parking”
You may not park beside a curb painted yellow or where official “No Parking” signs are posted.
The paint and the sign are the same instruction, and the reason for it is usually out of sight.
Beside a curb that is painted yellow or where official “No Parking” signs are posted
On the test
How far from a crosswalk at an intersection must you park?
At least 20 feet away. A car parked at the corner hides a person stepping off the curb until the moment they are in front of you. Minnesota Driver’s Manual, p.35: “Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Minnesota Driver’s Manual, published by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-22.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pdf (Minnesota Driver’s Manual, May 2025, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Driver and Vehicle Services, retrieved 2026-09-14; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MN.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json, MN entry -- the folio offset of 3 and its basis, the folio marker, the extraction-flag score and the welded compounds it costs, and the record of where the exam shape comes from