There are a few truck stops, however, that stand out as more than just rural highway scenery. These travel plazas are destinations in their own right, whether you’re a pro trucker trying to liven up the routes or a road tripper with a little time for the scenic route. From Oregon to Iowa, these seven stopovers range from slick new corporate behemoths with celebrity styling to mom-and-pop mainstays that have been on the map for 70 years.
If there’s one time to visit, it’s the Truckers Jamboree, which begins this year on July 9. Started in 1979, the “Best Trucker Party in the Country” is a family-friendly affair featuring a “Super Truck Beauty Contest” for the prettiest rigs, an Iowa Pork Chop Cook-Out, an antique truck show, fireworks, and country bands. Don’t miss the Trucker Olympics, including a tire rolling contest, strap winding speed runs, and a truck pull that pits a strong man and a strong woman against a 12,000-pound antique cement truck. Admission to the Jamboree is free,
Buc-Ees in Luling, Texas
It’s the details that fill all the square footage that have made Buc-ees something of a national phenomenon. Case in point, Indie musician Phoebe Bridgers recently posted a photo of herself cradled in the arms of the Buc-ees beaver in Loxley, Alabama (the first location to open outside Texas) as she launches her first tour in several years.
View this post on Instagram“When I sit back in my rocker, I want to have done it all,” Dolly Parton told Time magazine in 1977. Nearly fifty years later, she’s stuck to that cup of ambition, adding “truck stop proprietress” to her long and illustrious resume. The country star just cut the ribbon at Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop, halfway between Nashville and Birmingham at Exit 22 off Interstate 65.
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Given how often the singer must have driven past the Buc-ees Sevierville, near her Dollywood theme park, it’s not surprising she had a quip for her competitor: “I’m sure some of you want to know why I wanted a truck stop. Well, I couldn’t leave it to beavers.”
Russell’s Travel Center in Glenrio, New Mexico
Russel’s was founded in 1995 by Mark Russel, a New Mexican entrepreneur who grew up in a family where trucking and diners were a way of life. In addition to the chapel, car wash, convenience store, and gas pumps, Russel showcased a selection of the vintage cars he began collecting in 1977. In 2023, TravelCenters of America purchased Russel’s Truck & Travel, but has maintained the car museum and diner that have made this a throwback favorite for over thirty years.
Truckers forums and Reddit threads continue to hail Jubitz as one of the best truck stops in the country, with amenities you don’t usually find but feel very Oregonian, like the Jubitz Cinema. No one loves a movie theater quite like Portlanders (there’s also a short-film cinema at the PDX airport), and the 52-seat theater at Jubitz offers $6 tickets that’s hard to beat.
The Lincoln Highway Tavern in Evanston, Wyoming
What it lacks in size, scale, or star power, Highway 30 makes up for in history and authenticity. It’s named for the first coast-to-coast highway in the United States, which preceded the more famous Route 66 by about a decade and was later replaced by Highway 30. Founded in 2015 by local Michael Kindler, this is less a travel plaza than a local bar and restaurant in a former gas station, with outstanding bison sloppy joes, tamarind-chile tacos, and spicy wings. That said, the Lincoln Highway Tavern is tucked right next to a Flying J truck stop if you need to get some gas and put some groceries down your neck, as they say in the 1977 trucker classic Smokey and the Bandit.
“Good food, real rest, a little music, and people who are genuinely glad you stopped in.… That’s what the road has always deserved,” said Dolly Parton at the June 24 ribbon cutting in Cornersville, Tennessee. Whether you stop at Dolly’s or another travel plaza on this list, there’s some real hospitality to be found coast to coast at travel plazas new and old.
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