Comments on: Armchair Field Trip: The World’s Largest Truck Stop

By: frolona

frolona — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:04:35 +0000

@ Frenchfarmer: yes but this “teeny weeny bit of it” kept you from being a German farmer

By: Frenchfarmer

Frenchfarmer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:26:43 +0000

Google earth co-ordinates to go with post?
We don’t all live in the U.S.of A. in case you haven’t noticed.
There’s a whole big world out there and Amarica is just a teeny weeny bit of it.

By: gaush007

gaush007 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:43:21 +0000

I like visiting such truck stops. This place can be termed as heaven for drivers like us who always try to search for truck accessories and other related items during a drive.

By: chargerdog

chargerdog — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:53:00 +0000

This comment is for lleachie. Oak Grove is not a cousin but more like a sister or more than likely a brother. It is part of the Iowa 80 family and therefore is part of the “Worlds Largest Truckstop”

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:34:58 +0000

No hotels, campgrounds, or fireworks stores?

Pedro sez you need to check out South of the Border on I-95 (just south of the NC/SC border)

You can’t miss it, just fallow the billboards – about 100 of them each way.

By: lleachie

lleachie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:47:08 +0000

I see in the rest of the pictures you got some of the faux Southwestern Native American pottery that I most associate Iowa 80 with.

By the way, it has a slightly smaller cousin, Oak Grove 70, outside of Kansas City (which I believe also claims to be the world’s biggest truck stop).

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:38:27 +0000

You must be tired after all those road trips. There were two typos (one if my brain’s playing tricks on me): “old-timey care” and “customer vinyl”. Don’t mean to be rude. *ducks*

Anyway, that looks awesome. I don’t know when I’ll be around that area, but I’ll be sure to check it out if I ever am. It sounds like a town in and of itself.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:44:00 +0000

Is there a tattoo parlor? There must be one!

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:36:07 +0000

FYI & FWIW.

The I-80 truckstop is located in Walcott, Iowa (my hometown). The closest big city is Davenport (of the Quad-Cities). Iowa City is nowhere close, about an hour away (Walcott is exit 284 and Iowa City is exit 250).

I like the trucker’s jamboree, good food and you get to see the tricked out semi’s.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:26:23 +0000

I absolutely love giant truck stops and their wares.