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Rest Area I-75 Southbound

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Rest Area -- I-75 Northbound - vendoland

Rest Area -- I-75 Northbound

(10 reviews)

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crisp and clean with a coffee machine in the corner ready to dispense a cup of dark brown feels…read moregood :-) pulled in way too early in the morning for anyone's good after an awkward night half-way up the guzzotta at the currently demolished rest area immediately preceding. I was getting tired of seeing so many decommissioned rest areas and was wondering what was going on here. well, if them are making a bunch of this then okay, long smooth entry into a spacious and well reasoned parking area with separate lots for larger and smaller vehicles and other small vehicles besides and except for coming right off the interstate this sort of almost feels like visiting the library, but with way more potties and snack machines. really hope this is a sign of things to come but I'm not holding my breath. this is ohio after all and - the late james trafficant not withstanding - I'm not convinced the locals understand the appeal of nuance, subtlety, and a bit of good natured scandal. ...but in the meanwhile life and travel are rough.

After stopping at the southbound location and giving it it's Inaugural review, I decided to stop at…read morethe Northbound location along the way back heading towards Ann Arbor for my next adventure. This place was more busier than the southbound location. It's a clean and modest rest area with plenty of parking spaces for cars and trucks alike. Staff here is very friendly and they always have a section open to use the restrooms while the other section is always closed for cleaning. Easy access right back to the highway to continue your way to Bowling Green and Beyond.

Meijer Express Gas Station

Meijer Express Gas Station

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Clean and roomy pump area that's well lighted at night with fast pumps. Easy off and on to the…read morefreeway.

Where do I start, at the beginning I suppose. When I was 14 years old my parents called a family…read moremeeting. My siblings and I all thought 'oh great, Uncle Ralph is on the sauce again'. See Uncle Ralph would go on benders and my aunt would kick him out of the house on account of all the empty beer cans and broken toilets (dont ask, trust me!) Ralph left in his drunken stupor. When Ralph fell off the wagon he always found his way to our house. My Mom just couldn't turn away her little (drunken!) brother when he was in trouble. Anyways like I was saying we thought oh great Uncle Ralph is gonna be crashing here again when our parents said we had to have a family meeting. But it turns out it wasn't that at all. We were going to sell our house and buy a bigger one! Oh boy was this big news. We moved to our new house just a few short months later. The best thing about this new house? VERY close to a Meijer store with a gas station. There's just something about Meijer that really puts a grin on my face. Once I got my drivers license I knew where I was gonna go first. The Meijer gas station baby! It was so cool pulling up to the gas pump and pumping gas. This was way back in 1999, so gas was around a dollar a gallon. Pretty good, right? Well guess what happened one day. I was watching the 5 O'clock news on WHIO-TV (Channel 7 Dayton OH) when Cheryl McHenry announced that krogers was going to build a new store with a gas station, and it was going right next to MY favorite Meijer gas station. Boy was I steamed. Who the heck cares about krogers when there is a Meijer already there? Fast forward about a year and I'm driving a sweet Pontiac 6000LE! Saved up a few pesos (j/k, they were dollars!) from my summer job as a custodian at an elementary school and bought that bad boy. The krogers gas station was having their stupid grand opening and I decided to go to Meijer and show krogers who owns the corner of Brandt and Harshman. Guys you'll never believe what was happening. They were having a price war on gas, with gas prices at 25 cents a gallon! Oh boy. The lines for both were super long, people just love a bargain! By the time I got to the gas pump the price was 13 cents a gallon! Best smelling gas I ever bought too! Anyways fast forward to 2021 and I find myself traveling up I75 and needing to get gas and take a little potty break. I pulled off the highway in Bowling Green OH and guess what I saw? A Meijer gas station! So we went there and bought gas and tinkled. The gas was more expensive, but it had the EXACT same scent of the gas on that day in 1999. Talk about a stroll down memory lane!

Rest Area I-75 Southbound - reststops - Updated October 2026

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