Control apparatus for vehicle

A control apparatus for a vehicle that is provided with (i) a wheel, (ii) an electric parking device which includes a parking gear that is to be rotated in conjunction with the wheel and a parking pawl that is to be meshed with the parking gear, and which is configured to lock rotation of the wheel by causing the parking pawl to be meshed with the parking gear through an electric control, and (iii) a range selection device capable of selecting a plurality of ranges that establish respective different driving states of the vehicle, wherein the plurality of ranges include a parking range that causes the wheel to be locked to be unrotatable by the electric parking device,

• the control apparatus comprising a parking control portion configured, when the parking range is selected, to execute a parking control for moving the parking pawl to a parking position in which the parking pawl is meshed with the parking gear in the electric parking device,
• wherein the parking control portion is configured, when being to execute the parking control, to determine whether or not the electric parking device is in a ratcheting state in which the parking pawl is repelled by the parking gear without the parking pawl being meshed with the parking gear, and is configured, when determining that the electric parking device is in the ratcheting state, to stop the parking control so as to move the parking pawl to a non-parking position in which meshing of the parking pawl with the parking gear is released.