Motorcycle & Scooter Parking in Seattle

Motorcycles must obey posted regulations (payment and time limits) on the block where they park, even in designated spaces. To request a new or changed motorcycle parking space, please contact us at 206-684-ROAD (7623).

This page refers to motorcycles and scooters that are required to have a license plate. For electric foot scooters, please click here for more information.

Motorcycles and scooters can park:

• In any parking space that a passenger car can park in, with 72-hour limit if the space is otherwise unrestricted 
• In any paid parking space, with payment required  
• In any space with time-limit restrictions. Must obey time limit. 
• In Restricted Parking Zones (RPZs), motorcycle and scooter users may park without an RPZ permit.
• In designated motorcycle parking spaces - see map 

Open the Seattle Motorcycle Parking map

In paid parking area:

• Pay at the pay station.
• Preferably use a credit card to provide record of the transaction. Write license plate on receipt and affix to headlamp.
• OR use PayByPhone 

Motorcycles may not park:  

• In front of fire hydrants
• Within 5 feet of a driveway 
• In Tow-Away Zones  
• In load zones 
• In spaces in front of or behind striped parking spaces (as these spaces typically provide maneuvering room that passenger cars need to enter and exit an adjacent striped space) 
• Along curb bulbs or indentions 
• In alleys 
• On the sidewalk 
• Anywhere passenger cars cannot park