I had to add this truck stop to Yelp! Is that weird?
Maybe.
But here me out.
Days traveling on the road hours since our last stop in Atlanta. I am not a fan of Atlanta. Nothing good was open in Atlanta while we there for an overnight stay that was of any good service or quality. Bad hotel stay, bad fast food, and traffic that makes you reconsider if the price of airfare was really so bad to and from a remote part of Florida...
Rest Areas and truck stops are an oasis in a desert of traffic delays and bad drivers.
This Pilot Travel Center is of mention for the cleanest truck stop I've been in for quite some time. Clean is a hard thing to quantify for truck stops because you can't eat off a surface or would you want to really sit directly on a seat in one? But there was a shocking lack of paper waste on the floors or graffiti on the stall walls.
The fast food location is why I felt the need to add this location most of all. There is a Wendy's attached to one end of the property and they had the best tasting food from a fast food location I have had in a very long time. This whole trip has been a slow voyage of the damned between the Ohio Valley and the Gulf coast. Fast food that was less than questionable on freshness and some locations where franchisees price gouged knowing they were the only game in town for about 80 miles around. $6.00 for a large and a medium fry from McDonald's in nowhere's-ville, Florida. Even back at home I can't bring myself to find a Wendy's with food that is this hot and fresh-tasting. I used to work for a Wendy's and some of our food was hard-pressed some days to meet this quality level.
I wanted to make sure that fellow travelers know that when they debate about when and where to stop (and I have had this discussion along the route that others do have this internal debate) they seriously consider pulling in here for what we found was reasonably priced gas, food, and a couple of fast food options, one of which was the best Wendy's I'd tasted in years. They also seem to have e a Jr. double stack with bacon which I hadn't seen anywhere else. It seems like it should be expected, but this was such a surprising and rare delight I had to make sure others knew they are here.
I hope my review will help you make a good decision on where to stop and when might be a better time to stop since there are multiple choices up and down this strip of hwy 75. read more