Safety Rest Area List

Texas Safety Rest Areas feature a number of benefits designed to better serve travelers in Texas.

Each of the state's 80 Safety Rest Areas feature restrooms that are open 24 hours daily. Most rest areas have attendants on duty 24 hours a day. The remaining facilities have attendants on duty from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Texas Safety Rest Area Program - Locations

Safety Rest Areas: La Salle County Southbound

(New facility opened Fall 2014)
La Salle County Northbound is the partner for La Salle County Southbound

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View of the new La Salle County Safety Rest Area

Location

IH 35 - Southbound, approximately 8 miles south of Cotulla
Latitude = 28.3237 Longitude = -99.276
Milepost: 60

Features

2 sets of Men's and Women's Restrooms	Interpretive Displays
Air-conditioned lobby and restrooms	Picnic Tables
Drinking Water	Playground
Family/Assisted Restroom	Separate Truck and Passenger Parking
Group Picnic Facility	Vending Machines
Handicap Access

Miscellaneous

Newly constructed facility opened in Fall 2014
The building design will reflect vernacular and industrial characteristics of regional structures including barns, dance halls, feed stores. The new building will also incorporate sustainable elements including a traditional windmill, photovoltaic cells and LED lighting
La Salle County was named for René Robert Cavelier (1643-1687), a French explorer who assumed the title Sieur de La Salle after the name of a family estate. La Salle led an expedition in and around present day La Salle county around 1685. One of the ships sailed from France for the expedition, La Belle, was discovered in 1995 and was regarded as one of the most important archaeological finds of the century
Located in the "South Texas Plains" region of Texas. Visit our Texas Highways Magazine to find out interesting places and events happening in this region.

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