Minnehaha County, SD Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Minnehaha County's unincorporated areas are policed by the Sheriff's Office under state traffic law. SDCL 32-30-1 prohibits stopping, parking, or leaving a vehicle (whether attended or unattended) on the paved or main-traveled part of a highway when it is practicable to stop, park, or leave it off the highway. SDCL 32-30-2 requires that an unobstructed width of the highway opposite the standing vehicle be left clear for the free passage of other vehicles, and a clear view of the vehicle be available from a distance of two hundred feet in each direction. Parking is prohibited within an intersection, on a crosswalk, within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant, on a sidewalk, alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction, on a railroad track, or within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing (SDCL 32-30-3). Inside the cities of Sioux Falls, Brandon, Hartford, Dell Rapids, Crooks, Garretson, Humboldt, Valley Springs, and Sherman, municipal parking codes — not county or generic state rules — control. The Minnehaha County Highway Department manages county-road right-of-way; long-term storage of vehicles on the shoulder may trigger abandoned-vehicle removal under SDCL Chapter 32-30A.