Abstract: The invention relates to a parking apparatus having a plurality of vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms for being lifted and lowered between a lower vehicle supporting level and an upper vehicle supporting level and arranged horizontally in a mutually parallel relationship, positioning structure for respective vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms for selectively preventing the vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms from being lowered from their upper vehicle supporting level or from being lifted from a vehicle positioning state of their lower vehicle supporting level, the positioning structure being switchable from the vehicle positioning state to a released state in which lifting or lowering if the vertically movable vehicle supporting platform is enabled, a lifting drive of the vertically movable vehicle supporting platforms, the lifting drive including a motor, and a wind-up body driven by the motor, a frame, a plurality of suspending cables suspending respective vertically m