Parking restrictions — Utah Permit Test

A driver may not park within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.

A hose has to reach the hydrant from the street. A parked car turns a two minute hookup into a broken window.

Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.

A driver may not park on a crosswalk or within 20 feet of one.

A car at the corner hides a walking child from every driver approaching, and hides the traffic from the child.

On a crosswalk, or within 20 feet of a crosswalk.

A driver may not park within 30 feet of a flashing beacon, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal.

Parking under a sign is parking in front of it. The drivers behind you cannot obey what they cannot see.

Within 30 feet of any flashing beacon, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal.

A driver may not park on a railroad track or within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.

A train needs the whole crossing and a good deal either side of it. Fifty feet is the room it cannot give back.

On any railroad track or within 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing.

A driver may not park within 20 feet of a fire station driveway entrance, and where signs are posted may not park within 75 feet of it on the opposite side of the road.

An engine leaving a station has to swing wide across the street. The far side matters as much as the near one.

Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station, if signs are posted, you may not park on the opposite side of the road if you are within 75 feet of the fire station entrance.

A driver may not park on the roadway side of a vehicle already stopped or parked at the curb, which is double parking.

Double parking takes a lane away and traps the car you are beside. Both of those are somebody else’s problem.

On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street (no double parking.)

A driver may not park on a bridge, another elevated highway structure, or in a highway tunnel.

There is no shoulder on a bridge and nowhere for traffic to go around. A stopped car there is a wall.

On any bridge or other elevated highway structure or in a highway tunnel.

The shoulder of an interstate highway may be used only if the vehicle breaks down or the driver is in physical distress.

The shoulder is the escape lane for anybody in trouble. Treating it as a lay-by takes it away from them.

On the shoulder of any interstate highway—these areas may be used only if your vehicle breaks down or you are in physical distress.

A driver may not park in an area posted for pedestrian use or within 30 feet of the edges of that area.

A posted pedestrian area is a place people are told they may walk freely. A car in it makes that a lie.

In an area posted for pedestrian use or within 30 feet of the edges of that area.

A driver should always park in a marked parking area, and when parking along the road should park as far from traffic as possible.

A car parked half in the lane is a fixed obstacle in a moving stream, and the driver who hits it was doing nothing wrong.

When parking along the road, park your vehicle as far from traffic as possible.

A driver may not park in front of a public or private driveway, in an intersection, or on a sidewalk.

Each of those is somebody’s only way in or out. Blocking it is the kind of parking that gets a car towed.

In front of a public or private driveway.

How far from a fire hydrant may a Utah driver not park?

Within 15 feet. A hose has to reach the hydrant from the street. A parked car turns a two minute hookup into a broken window. Utah Driver Handbook 2026-2027, p.32: “Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.”