Do they have the same purpose, and have you seen them?
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In California there are rest areas on all the major north-south routes (US-101, I-5, CA-99, US-395, I-15) in addition to the east-west Interstates (8, 10, 40, 80). There are handful of others, mainly on routes in the Sierra Nevada.
The appearance/amenities are the same at all the rest areas I've been at regardless of what type of highway they're on.
Wisconsin has 4 Rest Areas on US 53 between Chippewa Falls and Superior, 1 along US 45, and 1 a piece along US 151 and US 2 at the borders. The rest areas on I-43 southwest of Milwaukee I-41, and I-39 were constructed before they became interstates. All of the rest areas have the weather information, 24 hour bathrooms and vending machines and are up to the same standard of interstate restrooms. There aren't many rest areas in the state.
Maine has quite a few, especially along US 1.
Michigan has rest areas on non-Interstate freeways: US-31, US-131, US-23, US-127 (including the "Welcome Center" in the middle of the state where US-127 and US-10 run concurrently). Maybe that's because we have more non-Interstate freeways than most states - we don't bother applying for an I marker just because the route was upgraded.
There are several rest areas in the UP along two-lane highways: US-2, US-41 and M-28. These are somewhat smaller than the ones you see along the freeways, but have full indoor facilities are are open year round.
In addition, we have dozens of roadside parks along two-lane highways - sometimes just a few parking spots, sometimes 20 or 30. Usually they only have outhouses. They may also be closed in the winter; most up north are. They often are near natural features, such as a waterfall.
Washington has one on US 12 near the Olympic Peninsula, and I'm pretty sure that's not the only non-freeway one in the state, but I don't know where the other one(s) are. Yes, they serve exactly the same purpose.
There is a non-freeway rest area on US 51 in Lauderdale County TN, near Henning.
Belle Vista AR on US71. US67 as well.
Two past threads on this exact same subject:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=14074.0
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=14043.0
Not surprising that topics get recycled.
North Carolina has a lot of Rest Areas on non-Interstate highways. Here's a map to all Rest Area/Welcome Centers/Visitor Center: http://www.ncdot.gov/travel/restareas/ (http://www.ncdot.gov/travel/restareas/)
Rockland, Maine has a rest stop on US 1
Quote from: Kacie Jane on December 08, 2015, 07:15:30 PM
Washington has one on US 12 near the Olympic Peninsula, and I'm pretty sure that's not the only non-freeway one in the state, but I don't know where the other one(s) are. Yes, they serve exactly the same purpose.
There's quite a few on state routes: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Safety/RestAreas/restareamap.htm
Quote from: SteveG1988 on December 08, 2015, 07:34:24 PM
Bella Vista AR on US71. US67 as well.
Also US 79 south of Pine Bluff, US 65 north of Harrison, US 82 near Lake Village. There is a former R/A now community park just north of Winslow. Still functions as a Rest Area, but AHTD ceded it to the Brentwood Community a few years ago.
There's one on Wisconsin 42 just south of Algoma: (though WisDOT calls it a wayside). (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5666833,-87.4581164,3a,47.6y,196.25h,92.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZkaTy-Ax5kIHfGhPeeeysg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DZkaTy-Ax5kIHfGhPeeeysg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D103.6206%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
California has 2 that I know of, but I may be wrong: CA 46 east of Paso Robles and CA 58 east of Edwards AFB.
There are some on Colorado state highways. One I can immediately identify is on U.S. 50 just west of the Kansas border. Another on the same road, east of La Junta, was closed a few years ago.
Ohio still has some primitive ones one 2 lane roads. One example I can think of is on OH 13 immediately south of where its multiplex with US 250 ends in Fitchville. I can also remember 2 others that were on OH 4 between Attica and Marion that have probably been gone for close to 20 years now.
There are also several modern ones (flush toilets) along Ohio's expressways/divided highways, such as US 23, US 35, US 30, US 33 & OH 2, most of which are built in pairs with one for each direction of travel (with some being on full freeway sections.) Though I can think of a few where there the rest area is only on one side of the road and traffic in one direction has to turn left to enter it, with examples being OH 2 west of Port Clinton, US 23 north of South Bloomfield and US 23 just south of the Scioto/Pike County line. In fact, the one in Scioto County has a tourist info center and acts as a de facto Ohio Welcome Center for the US 23 corridor, although it is not signed as such.
Quote from: Buck87 on December 08, 2015, 10:57:36 PM
Ohio still has some primitive ones one 2 lane roads. One example I can think of is on OH 13 immediately south of where its multiplex with US 250 ends in Fitchville. I can also remember 2 others that were on OH 4 between Attica and Marion that have probably been gone for close to 20 years now.
There are also several modern ones (flush toilets) along Ohio's expressways/divided highways, such as US 23, US 35, US 30, US 33 & OH 2, most of which are built in pairs with one for each direction of travel (with some being on full freeway sections.) Though I can think of a few where there the rest area is only on one side of the road and traffic in one direction has to turn left to enter it, with examples being OH 2 west of Port Clinton, US 23 north of South Bloomfield and US 23 just south of the Scioto/Pike County line. In fact, the one in Scioto County has a tourist info center and acts as a de facto Ohio Welcome Center for the US 23 corridor, although it is not signed as such.
Ohio has a couple pairs on US 33 that have pit toilets (or at least did when I used them). The one south of Athens comes to mind as falling in that category.
New York's rest areas with facilities are limited to controlled-access highways. Most of the ones on Parkways have closed, while NY 17 is the only signed state route with them. There are several "primitive" rest areas along both limited-access and surface roads, almost always labeled as "parking areas", many being on rarely-used sections of highway.
Vermont has a welcome center with facilities on US 4/VT 4A at the New York border. It is located at the intersection with VT 4A at the western end of the freeway section.
Maine has one on US 302 at the NH border.
Minnesota has some beautiful full-service non-Interstate rest areas. Three on MN 61 (Grand Portage, Illgen City, Gooseberry Falls) and one on MN 371 coming into Baxter come to mind.
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on December 09, 2015, 12:03:12 AM
Minnesota has some beautiful full-service non-Interstate rest areas. Three on MN 61 (Grand Portage, Illgen City, Gooseberry Falls) and one on MN 371 coming into Baxter come to mind.
Also the one on MN 60 east of St. James and on US 169 north of LeSeuer.
I still miss the one on MA 116 on the south side of Sunderland, MA. Been closed for more than a decade by now, I'd bet.
Oregon has lots of them.
Off the top of my head, US-97 has 4 of them: South of Klamath Falls, near Chemult, north of Terrebonne, and at the Jct. with US-197. US-20 has two rest areas between Bend and Burns (and infuriatingly, the only one between Burns and Ontario is closed! I peed behind the locked up toilet there...). US-26 has one between Seaside and Portland, one at government camp, one in the Ochocos east of Prineville, and one near John Day (it's a state park but I think signed as a rest area; if it's not signed as one, it acts as one). There's loads more too. Here's a map of all of them: https://tripcheck.com/Pages/RAentry.asp#
US 13 has a few. There is one on US 13 in Delaware in Smyrna, its marked on DE 1 for you to get off the highway to US 13 then you make a left to get into it, but theres a direct ramp back to DE 1 south from the Rest stop.
US 13 in Salisbury has a Rest Stop/Welcome center just before the shopping centers start.
Theres a pair on the Maryland/Virginia border, a VA Rest stop/Welcome center for US 13 South, and a Maryland one for US 13 North.
There may be another one further down in Virgnia but I don't remember, its been a long time since I went down that far.
Quote from: cl94 on December 08, 2015, 11:28:06 PM
Quote from: Buck87 on December 08, 2015, 10:57:36 PM
Ohio still has some primitive ones one 2 lane roads. One example I can think of is on OH 13 immediately south of where its multiplex with US 250 ends in Fitchville. I can also remember 2 others that were on OH 4 between Attica and Marion that have probably been gone for close to 20 years now.
There are also several modern ones (flush toilets) along Ohio's expressways/divided highways, such as US 23, US 35, US 30, US 33 & OH 2, most of which are built in pairs with one for each direction of travel (with some being on full freeway sections.) Though I can think of a few where there the rest area is only on one side of the road and traffic in one direction has to turn left to enter it, with examples being OH 2 west of Port Clinton, US 23 north of South Bloomfield and US 23 just south of the Scioto/Pike County line. In fact, the one in Scioto County has a tourist info center and acts as a de facto Ohio Welcome Center for the US 23 corridor, although it is not signed as such.
Ohio has a couple pairs on US 33 that have pit toilets (or at least did when I used them). The one south of Athens comes to mind as falling in that category.
New York's rest areas with facilities are limited to controlled-access highways. Most of the ones on Parkways have closed, while NY 17 is the only signed state route with them. There are several "primitive" rest areas along both limited-access and surface roads, almost always labeled as "parking areas", many being on rarely-used sections of highway.
Vermont has a welcome center with facilities on US 4/VT 4A at the New York border. It is located at the intersection with VT 4A at the western end of the freeway section.
Maine has one on US 302 at the NH border.
Ohio provides a list of all their rest areas: http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Facilities/Facilities/RestAreas/Lists/Rest%20Area%20Information/AllItems.aspx
I've stopped at the ones on OH32 in Brown and Pike counties. OH32 is a divided highway, but not a freeway.
Quote from: mariethefoxy on December 09, 2015, 02:43:14 PM
US 13 has a few. There is one on US 13 in Delaware in Smyrna, its marked on DE 1 for you to get off the highway to US 13 then you make a left to get into it, but theres a direct ramp back to DE 1 south from the Rest stop.
US 13 in Salisbury has a Rest Stop/Welcome center just before the shopping centers start.
Theres a pair on the Maryland/Virginia border, a VA Rest stop/Welcome center for US 13 South, and a Maryland one for US 13 North.
There may be another one further down in Virgnia but I don't remember, its been a long time since I went down that far.
Nope that's the last rest stop til the CBBT gift shop
Quote from: WashuOtaku on December 08, 2015, 08:45:06 PM
Not surprising that topics get recycled.
What is the etiquette for this, anyway? I would tend to think we should stick with existing topics, but then you get such a stern warning if you try to post in a thread that's too old.
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Someone just mentioned the OH 11 rest area that is the only at-grade intersection along a freeway between I-80 and I-90.
The OH 7 rest area near Gallipolis has a memorial to the victims of the Silver Bridge collapse and an exhibit that includes a piece similar to what failed, causing the bridge to collapse.
US 231 in Alabama has one between Troy and Montgomery.
Plus at the AL-FL border there are welcome centers that have rest stop features.
Then the one that closed in Punta Gorda, FL for I-75 was not on the freeway itself, but on the local road.
Quote from: DTComposer on December 08, 2015, 06:39:52 PM
In California there are rest areas on all the major north-south routes (US-101, I-5, CA-99, US-395, I-15) in addition to the east-west Interstates (8, 10, 40, 80). There are handful of others, mainly on routes in the Sierra Nevada.
The appearance/amenities are the same at all the rest areas I've been at regardless of what type of highway they're on.
There is a pair of rest areas on CA-58 just west of Boron in the middle of the Mojave desert. While CA-58 is a freeway, it is not an Interstate.
US 51 north of Covington, TN has one. As does US 82 in Greenville, MS (full welcome center) and across the river in AR too. Another couple: US 49 in Helena-West Helena AR and US 49/61 north of Clarksdale MS (relatively new).
In the "freeway but not Interstate" file, there's an MDOT welcome center off US 45 in Corinth, MS (not directly on the freeway, accessed by local roads). And until a few weeks ago, US 78 at Tremont, MS.
If we're counting rest areas/welcome centers that aren't directly off a freeway but serve them through an interchange and perhaps a short jaunt on local roads, there are a bunch. Examples include I-185 in Columbus GA, I-24 near Metropolis IL, I-10 near Bay St. Louis MS, I-35/US 83 north of Laredo TX, and I-40 in Memphis TN.
Current list/map of rest areas in TX (not counting the more numerous picnic areas in the state that the OP isn't referring to):
http://www.txdot.gov/driver/travel/rest-areas-map.html
Some of those will eventually be parts of the roadside I-69s.
US 101 in Curry County OR has one by Nesika Beach (a few miles north of Gold Beach) that used to be signed as a rest stop on the beach side of the highway. Now the signage is for a state park but it is the same old rest stop...LOL!
On the north side of Brookings OR along 101 is a conventionally signed rest stop. That one is on the east side of the highway. It is a real bear to get into from the southbound lane as well as turn left (south) when leaving.
SR 42 in Oregon used to have one between Remote and Camas Valley but when the highway was realigned the rest stop disappeared.
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Quote from: roadman65 on December 10, 2015, 10:15:53 AM
US 231 in Alabama has one between Troy and Montgomery.
Those two have been closed for years. There is one near Ozark on US 231.
There is one on US-2 near Steven's Pass in Washington at Nason Creek. For years it was there but closed, but in the last 10 years, they remodeled the whole facility.
NC has a few:
US-17 has the Dismal Swamp Canal "Welcome Center" near the VA border.
US-64 has a rest area on an at-grade section near Plymouth, but none on the lengthy freeway section between Raleigh and Williamston.
US-158 has one in Currituck County on the way to/from the Outer Banks.
VA also has the waysides along Skyline Drive, if you want to count those.
Quote from: doorknob60 on December 09, 2015, 02:27:56 PM
Oregon has lots of them.
Off the top of my head, US-97 has 4 of them: South of Klamath Falls, near Chemult, north of Terrebonne, and at the Jct. with US-197. US-20 has two rest areas between Bend and Burns (and infuriatingly, the only one between Burns and Ontario is closed! I peed behind the locked up toilet there...). US-26 has one between Seaside and Portland, one at government camp, one in the Ochocos east of Prineville, and one near John Day (it's a state park but I think signed as a rest area; if it's not signed as one, it acts as one). There's loads more too. Here's a map of all of them: https://tripcheck.com/Pages/RAentry.asp#
I slept at that rest area. Didn't expect it and it was late and I was tired. So glad it was there.
As for non-interstate/non-freeway rest areas (i.e., ones with facilities), one major one would be the Florida Welcome Center on US-231 south of Dothan, AL. But, that's a welcome center. So, may not be counting them.
One surprise was driving US280 west from Americus, GA toward Plains, GA was a Georgia Welcome Center on a two-lane road. Must get a lot of traffic due to U.S. route, but seems overdone.
Quote from: Sykotyk on December 29, 2015, 09:29:08 PM
One surprise was driving US280 west from Americus, GA toward Plains, GA was a Georgia Welcome Center on a two-lane road. Must get a lot of traffic due to U.S. route, but seems overdone.
It is just outside Plains and most likely has to do with Jimmy Carter being from Plains.
Quote from: Revive 755 on December 08, 2015, 09:24:43 PM
There's one on Wisconsin 42 just south of Algoma: (though WisDOT calls it a wayside). (https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5666833,-87.4581164,3a,47.6y,196.25h,92.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZkaTy-Ax5kIHfGhPeeeysg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DZkaTy-Ax5kIHfGhPeeeysg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D103.6206%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en)
The Waysides in Wisconsin are not rest areas. They are seasonal
and don't have the amenities that a rest area has. Wisconsin has a map of rest areas I posted below:
http://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/travel/road/rest-areas/locations.aspx
All of the rest areas on I-70 west of Denver are technically off the interstate via a local exit yet are maintained by CDOT. There are a few eastbound or westbound-only parking areas or scenic view ramps that look like they are rest areas, but they have no facilities, with the exception of the Truck Parking area atop Vail Pass eastbound -- they have a couple of porta-pottys.
Maryland has rest area/welcome centers on U.S. 15 southbound at Emmitsburg and northbound U.S. 301 at Newburg and in the median of U.S. 301 near Church Hill north of Centreville - in addifion to the one mentioned upthread on U.S. 13 north of the Virginia line near Pokomoke City.
I forgot about the one in Kansas at the intersection of US 36 and old US 75 south of Sabetha and west of Fairview. I'm surprised when they built the current US 75 that they didn't build a new rest area to go with it.
Haydenville Rd. is a county road west of Nelsonville OH that is an old alignment of US-33. It has what was a primitive rest area that is now a park. The balance of the facilities remained intact but I don't know if the toilet facilities remain. The new alignment opened within the past couple years.
Quote from: GCrites80s on January 03, 2016, 09:01:24 PM
Haydenville Rd. is a county road west of Nelsonville OH that is an old alignment of US-33. It has what was a primitive rest area that is now a park. The balance of the facilities remained intact but I don't know if the toilet facilities remain. The new alignment opened within the past couple years.
That unsigned picnic area? I didn't even know it had restrooms. If you're not paying attention, you'll miss it.
It may have never been upgraded from wooden pit toilets to the block ones. Are there any wooden toilet areas left in Ohio? I remember using a wooden one on OH-28 in the mid-2000s.
US 13 in Smyrna, DE has one just south of the DE 1 Turnpike north of the city center.
Nevada has many non-freeway rest areas. NDOT denotes rest areas on their state highway map, and also has a separate rest area map (PDF) (http://www.nevadadot.com/uploadedFiles/NDOT/Traveler_Info/Maps/Rest%20Area%20Map%202013.pdf) (also includes copy of rest area amenities table from the state map). Of the rest areas located adjacent to Interstate highways, only three are actually on the interstate: Beowawe, Pequop, and Wadsworth–others are located off interstate at an interchange with another route.
Of note with Nevada's rest areas is that many are simple roadside rest locations. There are several that don't have running water, and a few that don't even have picnic tables. NDOT has closed a few in recent years, but also built a huge new one in southern Nevada in that time also.
EDIT: Completed my unfinished final sentence.
I'm pretty sure rest areas without bathrooms or anything are supposed to be called parking areas.
Quote from: vdeane on January 10, 2016, 06:31:10 PM
I'm pretty sure rest areas without bathrooms or anything are supposed to be called parking areas.
MUTCD guidance suggests the signing of a rest area without restrooms reflect the primary type of service area provided, such as "picnic area", "roadside park", "parking area", etc. (it is a guidance statement, so not required to use alternate wording).
With a few of their rest areas, I'm pretty sure NDOT gets around this recommendation by just not signing the rest area. The Crystal Springs rest area is little more than a clear dirt area with some trees, trash cans, and maybe a picnic table located in the top of the 'Y' junction of SR 318 & SR 375, just a half mile off the SR 318 & US 93 junction. This area has no signage at all, but is a place many people stop (one of the "Extraterrestrial Highway" signs is located here).