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Rest areas, welcome centers and service plazas on U.S. highways, with direction of travel, facilities and truck parking for every stop. Find the closest one or the next one on your route.
Press Find Rest Stops with an empty box (or tap Near Me) to use your location, or type a highway, state or rest area name.
Explore Rest Stops Across the U.S.
1,379 rest areas, welcome centers and service plazas on one map. Click a marker for the details.
Check posted signs and closures before you stop.
Featured Rest Stops
All rest areas by state →Explore Rest Stops by State
Four popular road trip states to start with. Each state page groups its rest areas by highway, with the direction of travel and the facilities each stop has.
Rest Areas by Interstate Highway
How often you can stop depends on the highway and the state: some stretches have a rest area every half hour, while long rural sections can go 60 miles or more without one. Each interstate page lists the rest areas in the order you reach them, state by state, with the direction they serve and the mile marker where the state publishes one, so you know where the next break is before you set off.
These are the interstates with the most rest areas in our directory:
Find Rest Areas by State
Rest areas are run by each state's department of transportation, so facilities, truck parking, opening status and how long you may stay all differ from state to state. Every state page lists its rest areas, welcome centers and service plazas by highway, with the direction of travel, reported car and truck parking, and the facilities documented by official sources.
Choose a state (46 covered so far):
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Rest Areas by Type
Not every stop offers the same. Welcome centers near state lines add maps and travel information, service plazas on turnpikes add fuel and food, and some rest areas have room for trucks or an RV dump station. These overviews collect each type across all states:
U.S. Rest Areas by the Numbers
Figures from our own directory, counted from official state and federal data. They update automatically as states and locations are added; parking figures are reported capacity, not live availability.
Rest stops near me: find the closest place to pull over
When you need a restroom, a coffee break or a few minutes away from the wheel, the useful answer is not just the nearest rest stop, but the nearest one you can actually reach in your direction of travel. Tap Near Me and the map sorts 1,379 rest areas, welcome centers and service plazas in 46 states by distance from where you are. Rather not share your location? Search for a highway such as I-80, a state, a city or the name of a rest area instead.
Most interstate rest areas serve one direction only. A stop that looks close on the map can sit on the other side of a divided highway, which means driving on to the next exit and back. That is why every location page states whether the facility is northbound, southbound, eastbound or westbound, and links to its counterpart across the road where one exists.
How far is the next rest area?
Spacing between rest areas varies a lot from state to state and from one highway to the next. Where a state publishes official mile markers, each location page shows the next stop in the same direction and the distance by mile marker. On I-80 in Iowa, for example, the next eastbound stop after Tiffin is Wilton, about 33 miles further on. Interstate pages list all stops on a highway in the order you reach them, so you can plan the next break before you get tired.
What you can check before you stop
- Direction and location: highway, direction of travel, mile marker where available, county and nearest town, plus coordinates you can copy into your navigation app.
- Facilities: restrooms, drinking water, picnic tables, pet areas, vending machines, RV dump stations, Wi-Fi and EV charging. Restrooms are documented at 1,014 locations. Facilities a source does not mention are marked as unknown, never as missing.
- Parking: reported car and truck spaces. 1,219 locations list truck parking, 26,374 truck spaces in total. These are capacity figures, not live availability.
- Status and rules: closures where a state transportation department publishes them, with the date they were checked, and the official parking time limit in each state we cover.
Rest area, welcome center, service plaza or truck stop?
A rest area is a free public stop with restrooms and parking, usually run by the state and usually without fuel or food. A welcome center is a rest area, usually near a state line, that also offers travel information about the state; our directory includes 107 of them. A service plaza sits on a toll road or turnpike and adds fuel and restaurants; 41 are listed. Private truck stops such as fuel centers are businesses with their own rules and are not part of this rest area directory. Drivers looking for overnight parking can use the truck rest stops by state overview.
Can you sleep at a rest stop?
A short nap to stay alert is generally accepted, but how long you may stay is set by each state, and camping is usually not allowed. The differences are large: Illinois limits stays to 3 hours, California to 8 hours in any 24-hour period, and Texas allows up to 24 hours, while Nevada counts a total of 18 hours within two weeks. Signs posted at the rest area always take precedence. The rest area time limits by state table lists each official rule with its source, and every location page repeats the rule for its state.
Where the information comes from
Locations and facilities come from official sources wherever they exist: state transportation departments such as Caltrans, TxDOT, Iowa DOT, NYSDOT, WSDOT, MDOT and INDOT, and the federal National Transportation Atlas Database for truck parking. OpenStreetMap fills in facilities and opening hours where no official list exists. Each page names its sources and the date information was checked. Spotted a closure, a missing amenity or a stop on the wrong side of the highway? Let us know and we will check it against the official records.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the nearest rest stop?
Use Near Me at the top of this page: the map shows the rest areas closest to your location. Check the direction of travel before you navigate, because most interstate rest areas serve one direction only.
How far is it to the next rest area?
Where official mile markers are available, each rest area page shows the next stop in the same direction and the distance by mile marker. Interstate pages list all rest areas in the order you reach them.
Can you sleep at a rest area?
Short rest breaks are allowed, but each state sets its own time limit, for example 3 hours in Illinois, 8 hours per 24 hours in California and 24 hours in Texas. Camping is usually prohibited and posted signs apply.
Are rest areas open 24 hours?
Most state rest areas are accessible around the clock, but closures for construction or seasonal reasons happen. Location pages show a status where the state publishes one, with the date it was checked.
Do rest areas have truck parking?
Many do. 1,219 locations in this directory list truck parking. The numbers are reported capacity, not live availability.