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: Pecos West County Westbound

(Newly constructed facility opened February 2018)
Pecos West County Eastbound is the partner for Pecos West County Westbound

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View of the new Pecos County Safety Rest Area

Location

IH 10 - Westbound, 26 miles west of Ft. Stockton
Latitude = 30.9378 Longitude = -103.3052
Milepost: 233

Features

'Welcome to Texas' Photo Area	Picnic Tables
2 sets of Men's and Women's Restrooms	Playground
Air-conditioned lobby and restrooms	Security Surveillance
Diaper Changing stations	Separate Truck and Passenger Parking
Drinking Water	Storm Shelter
Family/Assisted Restroom	Vending Machines
Group Picnic Facility	Walking Trail
Handicap Access	Wireless Internet Access
Interpretive Displays

Miscellaneous

Newly contructed facility opened February 2018. The architectural design was inpired by local geological features, with folded rooflines that rhyme with silhouette of mountain ranges in the distance. The building is oriented for maximum view of the moutains from the lobby; after all this is the only mountainous area in Texas. The rectangular building masses are a metaphor of nearby undulating mesas, and the rugged building limestone walls resemble rock strata seen along nearby roadcuts. Outside, the landscaped dry creek with bridged sidewalks is a tribute to local natural water springs including the inactive Comanche Springs in Ft. Stocton, and the San Solomon Springs that supply water to the world's largest spring-fed swimming pool in nearby Balmorhea State Park.
Fort Stockton, a town 30 miles east of the facility, was where a pre- and post-civil war cavalry fort located. Ninth United States Cavalry, a regiment of black troops (also known as "Buffalo'soldiers", as depicted on a wall at the eastbound facility) were among troops stationed here
The name Pecos first appears in Juan de Oñate's reports concerning the Indian pueblo of Cicuye, now known as the Pecos Pueblo, and is of unknown origin

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