Non Interstate Service Plazas?

[DevalDragon]

While traveling in New York City, I came across a Dunkin Donuts / Citgo gas station on the Hutchinson River Parkway.

https://goo.gl/mr8AkB <-Hutchinson River Service Plaza

How many other service plazas are there off the Interstate System? I know the Kentucky Parkway System has one, but are there any others?

https://goo.gl/GrWy9e <- Western KY Parkway Service Plaza

[Max Rockatansky]

Florida's Turnpike probably has more than anything else that will pop up on this thread.

[jeffandnicole]

All of the Garden State Parkway, all of the AC Expressway, and anything south of Interchange 6 on the NJ Turnpike.

[hotdogPi]

MA 128 (the segment that's not I-95) between exits 19 and 18 "north"bound has a service plaza.

[D-Dey65]

While traveling in New York City, I came across a Dunkin Donuts / Citgo gas station on the Hutchinson River Parkway.

https://goo.gl/mr8AkB <-Hutchinson River Service Plaza

Yeah.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SB_Hutchinson_Pkwy_Service_Area;_East_Bronx.jpg <-Southbound.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NB_Hutchinson_Pkwy_Service_Area;_East_Bronx.jpg <-Northbound.

Both in Schuylerville in the Bronx. Further north is a Mobil in the median.

You've also got a few on the Grand Central Parkway.

[1995hoo]

I haven't been on the road since July 2010, but for as long as I can remember there was a gas station (a Mobil for most of my life) in the median of the Belt Parkway just west of the Flatbush Avenue interchange.

[D-Dey65]

I haven't been on the road since July 2010, but for as long as I can remember there was a gas station (a Mobil for most of my life) in the median of the Belt Parkway just west of the Flatbush Avenue interchange.

Still there when I saw it a couple of months ago, even with all the construction going on.

[sbeaver44]

Do the waysides on Skyline Drive count?  They have food and gas and cannot be accessed from another road?

Also, Belt Pkwy near the Brooklyn-Queens line has another area similar to the Hutchison River Pkwy mentioned above and Grand Central Pkwy has one by LGA.

Nexus 6P

[Scott5114]

The Cimarron, Muskogee (SH-351), and Indian Nation turnpikes in Oklahoma have them.

[D-Dey65]

Also, Belt Pkwy near the Brooklyn-Queens line has another area similar to the Hutchison River Pkwy mentioned above and Grand Central Pkwy has one by LGA.

Nexus 6P

Two of them actually. The third one is in the median west of Francis Lewis Boulevard.

[dgolub]

The (unsigned) NJ 700 section of the New Jersey Turnpike has service areas.

[roadman]

MA Route 24 at the I-495 interchange in Bridgewater/Raynham has service plazas.  The southbound plaza is located between the northbound and southbound ramps to I-495, the northbound plaza is located just beyond the northbound ramps.

[jp the roadgeek]

CT just upgraded their service areas on CT 15 (Merritt/Wilbur Cross Parkways, ironically a de facto extension of the Hutch Parkway) to include Dunkin Donuts, Subway, and convenience stores as they did on I-95.

[plain]

I know this one is on an interstate so it doesn't have anything to do with this thread but I have a question about it:

Maine Tpk's northernmost service plaza is located on ME 126 to the north of the northernmost toll booth on I-95 and the ramp to this has no reentry back to northbound... instead it forces people to utilize I-295 to access I-95 north again, subjecting drivers to the toll on I-295 between ME 126 and I-95. Vice versa for southbound traffic for I-95. Is there some kind of voucher or receipt or something where drivers can prove the toll was already paid or do drivers have to pay 2 tolls just to access the service area???

https://goo.gl/maps/ULhLJe8MWUB2

[epzik8]

Are you talking about full service plazas with food and gas? If so, that excludes the Bay Country Rest Area along U.S. 301 in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, the U.S. 301 Maryland welcome center in Charles County just off the Nice Bridge, the couple of U.S. 13 Maryland welcome centers, and a couple of other Maryland ones.

[DevalDragon]

Are you talking about full service plazas with food and gas?

Yes. The type that are currently prohibited on Interstates that were not grandfathered in like the Maryland and Chesapeake Houses in Maryland.

[SP Cook]

Do the waysides on Skyline Drive count? 

I would think that all of those places along Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway would count.  They are government owned leased out ventures specifically aimed at those on the highway.    Natchez Trace does not operate that way, IIRC, directing people off the parkway to nearby commercial ventures. 

[1995hoo]

I know this one is on an interstate so it doesn't have anything to do with this thread but I have a question about it:

Maine Tpk's northernmost service plaza is located on ME 126 to the north of the northernmost toll booth on I-95 and the ramp to this has no reentry back to northbound... instead it forces people to utilize I-295 to access I-95 north again, subjecting drivers to the toll on I-295 between ME 126 and I-95. Vice versa for southbound traffic for I-95. Is there some kind of voucher or receipt or something where drivers can prove the toll was already paid or do drivers have to pay 2 tolls just to access the service area???

https://goo.gl/maps/ULhLJe8MWUB2

Yes. We've discussed that plaza before. Here's one prior comment about how it works:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=11396.msg271999#msg271999

[sbeaver44]

Do the waysides on Skyline Drive count? 

I would think that all of those places along Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway would count.  They are government owned leased out ventures specifically aimed at those on the highway.    Natchez Trace does not operate that way, IIRC, directing people off the parkway to nearby commercial ventures.

And that answers my other question, which was going to be if Blue Ridge has them as well.  I've done all of Skyline Drive but unfortunately only a small section of Blue Ridge Pkwy.

Nexus 6P

[Beeper1]

There is a service plaza at the US-6 / MA-132 interchange in Barnstable on Cape Cod.  You enter it from MA-132, but it has direct ramps onto US-6 WB. 

[slorydn1]

Do the waysides on Skyline Drive count? 

I would think that all of those places along Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway would count.  They are government owned leased out ventures specifically aimed at those on the highway.    Natchez Trace does not operate that way, IIRC, directing people off the parkway to nearby commercial ventures.

And that answers my other question, which was going to be if Blue Ridge has them as well.  I've done all of Skyline Drive but unfortunately only a small section of Blue Ridge Pkwy.

Nexus 6P

Not really, not in the same sense that Skyline Drive has. There is one resturant/gift shop (Mabry Mill in Virginia) and a lodge close to the Waynesville/Balsam area of NC (the name of which I cannot seem to remember) and that's pretty much it. There are a couple of other lodges along the route, but these are not on the actual parkway right of way (there is another one in NC where we could have a debate if it's technically on the parkway or on the adjoining roadway but its not clear cut).

There is no gas on the parkway itself but there are several spots to jump off, get gas within a few minutes of the parkway and jump back on again.


I did the entire Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Parkway/Smoky Mountains Parkway combo 2 years ago Memorial Day week. Front Royal VA all the way to Gatlinburg TN. The absolute best 2 days of laid back driving ever. You should try it sometime!

[SP Cook]

Not really, not in the same sense that Skyline Drive has. There is one resturant/gift shop (Mabry Mill in Virginia) and a lodge close to the Waynesville/Balsam area of NC (the name of which I cannot seem to remember) and that's pretty much it. There are a couple of other lodges along the route, but these are not on the actual parkway right of way (there is another one in NC where we could have a debate if it's technically on the parkway or on the adjoining roadway but its not clear cut).

There is no gas on the parkway itself but there are several spots to jump off, get gas within a few minutes of the parkway and jump back on again.

Wow, I guess I am getting old.   There used to be.    A couple of places, and they had covered the pumps with wooden slats to make them look "natural" (maybe a replica pump from a previous era would have been a better idea).  IIRC it was full serve, and pretty expensive.  Probably went away when all the stuff about insurance for underground tanks hit back in the 90s.

I need to do a new road trip for that road.  Been over 20 years.

[bzakharin]

Most service plazas around where I've been are on toll roads regardless of whether they are interstates. Obviously some listed in this thread are not toll roads, and there's the CT Turnpike which is no longer tolled (but is I-95).

[cpzilliacus]

There is no gas on the parkway itself but there are several spots to jump off, get gas within a few minutes of the parkway and jump back on again.


I did the entire Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Parkway/Smoky Mountains Parkway combo 2 years ago Memorial Day week. Front Royal VA all the way to Gatlinburg TN. The absolute best 2 days of laid back driving ever. You should try it sometime!

In the 1970's, there were gas stations (Amoco then) and small c-stores at regular intervals on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Last time I drove all of it in the 1990's, all of that was gone. 

[Roadgeekteen]

The merit parkway has a good number. I think there is also one on Mass 24.