A parking assist device detecting a parking stall line from an image,
which is captured by a capturing portion; setting a parking target
position on the basis of the parking stall line; and assisting the
vehicle to travel to the parking target position; the parking assist
device includes a vehicle detecting portion for detecting a movement of
the vehicle, a memorizing portion for memorizing the movement detected by
the vehicle detecting portion, as a vehicle moving trajectory, a
temporary parking target position estimating portion for assuming a
temporary parking target position on the basis of variations of the
vehicle moving trajectory, which has been memorized by the memorizing
portion, and a parking stall line searching area setting portion for
setting a parking stall line searching area, within which a parking stall
line is searched on the basis of the temporary parking target position.