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: Eastland County Eastbound

(New facility opened Spring 2016)
Eastland County Westbound is the partner for Eastland County Eastbound

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Building front entrance features a dramatic butterfly roof that routes rainwater into a collection tank.

Location

IH 20 - Eastbound, just east of Ranger
Latitude = 32.4569 Longitude = -98.6483
Milepost: 353

Features

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

Miscellaneous

New facility opened Spring 2016. The building design with its simple form and earthly material in harmony with their surrounding, is a tribute to park buildings, constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930's, whose remnants were found nearby. The building's butterfly roof form is an expressive method of rooftop rainwater harvesting which underlays sustainable building practices found in many CCC's structures
This part of Interstate 20 follows the route of the Bankhead Highway constructed in the 1920's and stretched from Washington D.C. to San Diego, California. A section of the old Bankhead Highway is located within the Westbound site, and is marked by a Historical Marker dedicated on April 13, 2016.
Eastland County is named for William Mosby Eastland, an officer during the Texas Revolution. Eastland was the first of the 17 captives, and the only officer, to draw a fatal black bean during the Black Bean Episode
The eastbound facility is just east Ranger (named after Texas Rangers) where oil well McClesky No. 1 drilled in October 1917 began a mammoth oil boom that led the oil industry to reappraise Texas as an oil producing area and allayed fears of national oil shortage which had been growing since 1900
The eastbound facility is 16 miles west of Thurber which was a principble bituminous coal mining town in Texas in 1918
Located in the "Panhandle Plains" region of Texas. Visit our Texas Highways Magazine to find out interesting places and events happening in this region.

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