Data sources

Rest Stops Nearby lists 2,166 rest areas, welcome centers and service plazas. Here is where each piece of information comes from and how current it is.

U.S. DOT: Truck Stop Parking (NTAD)

The Federal Highway Administration collected public rest areas and their truck parking spaces for the Jason's Law truck parking survey; the Bureau of Transportation Statistics publishes the result in the National Transportation Atlas Database. It gives us names, highways, directions, mile markers and truck spaces for 1,764 listings. The survey dates from 2019, so some sites have changed since. Weigh stations in the dataset are left out. License: U.S. government work, public domain. data.gov: Truck Stop Parking

OpenStreetMap

Volunteer-mapped rest areas with amenities such as restrooms, drinking water, picnic tables, pet areas and RV dump stations. We use it for amenities (1,067 listings) and for 402 rest areas and toll road plazas the federal list misses. © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License.

Natural Earth

Public-domain highway lines, used to tell which interstate a rest area from OpenStreetMap sits on. naturalearthdata.com

State laws, state DOTs and toll road operators

The overnight and time-limit rules come from state statutes, administrative codes and DOT websites; each state page names its source. Closures come from the state DOT's own announcements. Toll road plaza lists link to the operator. Last checked: October 2026.

Distances

Distances between stops use state mile markers where both stops have one. Otherwise we take the straight-line distance and add 15 percent for the curves of the road, and mark the number with "about". Finder results are straight-line distances.

Places

Town names and populations from GeoNames, county boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau (via us-atlas), ZIP codes from public Census data.

Corrections

Rest areas close, reopen and change. If something is wrong, send us a correction, ideally with a link to the state's announcement.