Rest Areas-USA Discussion

Thank you for maintaining this file. Extremely helpful on my Garmin and in the Furkot online trip planner.

Yes, thank you for keeping this file up to date

when I am driving to Orlando Fl. for our 40 yr anniversary

Sunset Point Rest Area AZ,I-17,NBSB will close on Sept 28 for renovation and will not be available to the general public on that date. During the closure, commercial truck drivers will be allowed to continue using Sunset Point to park their vehicles and get some rest. Although facilities will be limited, portable restrooms and handwashing stations will be provided for commercial drivers to use.
A temporary rest area will be available for use by passenger vehicles and non-commercial trucks at the Badger Springs Road exit on I-17 located 4 miles north of Sunset Point. The temporary facility will have parking, portable restrooms and handwashing stations. It will not be able to accommodate commercial vehicles, oversize loads, large RVs and vehicles with trailers. Motorists with those types of vehicles may use Sunset Point, if necessary, but are encouraged to use other nearby private facilities.

Just noticed that I had not incorporated the change to that rest area.

Latest status for this rest area dated 8/8/22 is that a new 6500 square-foot bldg will be built and open to the public by summer of 2023. During this reconstruction the welcome center has been relocated into smaller,temporary space until completion of the new bldg. This smaller location is 43 miles north to the rest area in Cumberland County.

SR 299
Moon Lim Lee Rest Area EB and WB - Closed due to Emergency Work-No ETO
I-5
Lakehead Rest Area SB - Closed due to Emergency Work-No ETO
SR 299
Hillcrest Rest Area EB and WB - Closed due to Seasonal Closure
DR 44
Shingletown Rest Area EB and WB - Closed due to Seasonal Closure
SR 36
Lake Alamanor Rest Area EB and WB - Closed due to Seasonal Closure
SR 70
Massack Rest Area EB and WB - Closed due to Seasonal Closure
SR 70
L T Davis Rest Area EB and WB - Closed due to Seasonal Closure
I-80
Donner Summit Rest Area EB and WB - Closed due to Snow Operations
US 395
Crestview Rest Area NB and SB - Closed due to Seasonal Closure
I-5
John "Chuck" Erreca Rest Area NB and SB - Closed due to Roadway Excavation-ETO 6/30/2023
SR 99
Philip S Raine Rest Area NB and SB - Closed due to Miscellaneous Work-ETO 2/23/2023
US 101
Camp Roberts Rest Area NB and SB - Closed due to Facility Upgrade-ETO 3/1/2023
I-10
Cactus City Rest Area EB - Closed due to Emergency Work-No ETO

tcreek submitted the following:

Th NH, US-2,EB/WB, State Rest Area is Closed. Goggle Earth Shows the cables
across the entrance.

The one at NH, US-2,EB/WB, Small Roadside Turnout may be closed. Got the
alert, but could not see it as we passed. Google Earth shows it still
there.

I contacted the city office of Shelburne,NH and received the following status. The first rest area listed above, the property has been sold and the rest area is permanently closed. I have removed that rest area from the file.
The 2nd small roadside turnout still exists, however, it is not maintained. I have left this in the file and added the words "Not Maintained" in column D.

The renovation of this rest area has been completed and it has reopened.

Rest area: WV,I-70,WB,Welcome Center,MM13

Here is what I have found on the internet. Kind of interesting:

Motorists traveling on Interstate 70 past the West Virginia Welcome Center can expect to see construction crews making repairs and repaving that section of highway near the Pennsylvania state line after longwall mining moved beyond that location.

"Longwall mining description is shown at end of this comment"

The interstate improvements are east of Wheeling in West Virginia's northern panhandle.

In addition to upcoming road repairs, it is likely the welcome center building will remain closed until the next panel of longwall mining passes by that location early next year, said West Virginia Division of Highways (DOH) Area Engineer Mike Witherow. Still, he added, the DOH is looking at options for temporarily reopening the center soon.

"Right now, we are in a holding pattern because there is a chance the welcome center could experience effects from the next longwall panel," Witherow explained. "We'll have another panel [move through], probably in January or February."

This past April, The Hughes Corporation, of Sycamore, Pa.,, began mitigation work on the welcome center to minimize structural damage to the building as a result of possible ground subsidence. The problem arose from mining being performed hundreds of feet beneath the site by the Tunnel Ridge Coal Co., which hired Hughes to perform the mitigation work, including dividing the building into three sections.

Then, in late May, the current longwall panel encroached beneath the embankment on the eastbound side of the highway before moving beneath the welcome center in June. Witherow said July 21 the DOH hopes to finalize plans for making repairs to that section of highway and begin work within a week or two.

Longwall mining is a form of underground coal mining where a long wall of coal is mined in a single slice (typically 0.6–6.0 m thick). The section of rock that is being mined, known as the longwall panel, is typically 3–4 km (1.9–2.5 mi) long, but can be up to 7.5 km (4.7 mi) long and 250–400 m (820–1,310 ft) wide.

Thanks to Y'all for creating and maintaining this useful resource! I have one addition to the file:

34.42340, -90.46811 State of Mississippi Welcome Center

Unfortunately, I do not have any information on the features/services, as I simply passed by late at night recently. Apologies if this makes this submission insufficient.

Regards,
Scrappy

Thanks for the input. Looking at the file, I have it listed under the name MS,US-49,SB,DELMA FURNISS HOSPITALITY STATION. However you are correct, the coordinates in the file are incorrect. I will correct these coordinates and also rename the file as MS Welcome Center (Delma Furniss Hospitality Station).

As a result of your input, I also found an error in another rest area on US 49. Thanks for your input.

I guess I do not need both. I will go with the Combined files.

The following closures were submitted by Plornch.

Rest areas in three Central Ohio counties are set to close this week so the buildings may be demolished and replaced.

The rest areas set to be town down are as follows:

Marion County rest areas at mile marker 131 along US 23 in both directions.
Union County rest areas near mile marker 97 along US 33 in both directions.
Pickaway County rest area located on US 23 southbound near mile marker 74.
The rest areas are set to close on January 11, at which point neither the buildings nor parking lots will be able to be used.

The buildings will be torn down and replaced with lodge-style buildings with indoor vending machines and local tourism information.

NOTE:

ODOT advises that drivers may use rest areas in Delaware County on I-71 and in Madison County along I-70 during the closure.

The rest areas in Fayette County which closed in November remain closed at this time as well.

UPDATE:6/23/24

Additional Rest Areas in Ohio Closures:

I-70 WB Muskingum MM 163
I-70 EB Belmont MM 211
I-70 WB Belmont MM 211
US-23 NB Wyandot MM 162
US-23 SB Wyandot MM 164
US-30 EB Van Wert MM 9.6
US-30 WB Van Wert MM 9.6
US-33 WB Meigs MM 215.31
The following are closed tenp.
I-76 EB Portage MM 45
I-76 WB Portage MM 45

I just added a rest area with restrooms on SR-213. Since this rest area is less than 0.1 mile from intersection with SR-7, I decided to also list it under SR-7

This rest area can also be accessed in the EB direction. At exit 116 proceed to stop sign. Utah SR 803. Turn left and follow signs.

BE AWARE THAT DUE TO FLOODING AND DAMAGE TO BOTH I-26 AND I-40 INTERSTATES THAT TRAVEL ON INTERSTATE I-26 WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE UNTIL
AT LEAST MARCH OF 2025 AND I-40 AT LEAST UNTIL SEPT OF 2025

INTERSTATE TRAVEL THRU THE ASHEVILLE,NC AREA WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE
WITH THE USE OF I-75 AND I-77 AND I-81. I'M SURE THAT THIS WILL RESULT IN NUMEROUS TRAVEL BACKUPS. DRIVE WITH CARE

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed “MN Bike and GO.” An interactive map and survey to identify the location of publicly available restrooms and toilets near bicycling paths and routes throughout MN.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/fba526c9d9a94580b44...

My wife and I are both ATV/UTVers and e-bikers. I would like to see something like this for ATV trails as well as bike trails.

The Roselawn Rest Areas have been demolished. These were located at mm231 on Interstate I-65 in Indiana. New facilities have been opened in these Rest Areas and renamed. The SB location has been identified as IN, Kankakee Welcome Center Rest area and the NB location has been IN, Kandakee Rest area.

Submitted by Plornch

I-75 Closures Dayton Daily News dated June 11, 2025

All of the state’s Interstate 75 rest areas between the Ohio River and Findlay more than 150 miles away will be closed at the same time starting July 7, as Ohio transportation officials work on totally redoing those facilities.

The rest areas near Piqua (south of exit 82) have been closed since last October as they were being demolished and replaced. They are scheduled to reopen “in the fall of 2025” according to the Ohio Department of Transportation, which could be three months away or nearly six months.

The rest areas on both sides of I-75 in Butler County (just south of exit 29) and Auglaize County (just north of exit 113) will close July 7 for complete replacement and are slated to reopen in summer 2026.

ODOT Chief Communications Officer David Rose said the reason all of them will be closed at once is that the state bundled the projects to get the best price from the contractors doing the work.

“We’re trying to do the right thing, to save money,” Rose said.

He said this strategy allows a contractor to move between nearby projects, rather than one near West Virginia and one near the Indiana line. Setterlin is the contractor for both the Butler County and Auglaize County projects.