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Interestingly, they decided to include "Iraq" as part of the "Global War on Terrorism."
At the Colorado State Welcome Center/Rest Area in Trinidad, Colorado.
A visitor stretches his legs and exercises his dog overlooking Grizzly Peak at the Siskiyou Rest Area and Welcome Center.
Location:
Hwy 1 - Cole Road Rest Area, 8km east of the Hwy 1/11 interchange in Abbotsford.
Sign Text:
In 1924, by a system of stream diversions, dams, dykes, canals and pumps, 33,000 acres of fertile land were reclaimed from Sumas Lake. Few areas in B.C. have such rich soil with transportation and markets in close proximity. Produce of the mixed farming on this deep lake-bottom land is an important factor in the economy of our mountainous province. (Attached to this large plaque is a smaller bronze plaque with the text: "The 100th Stop-of-Interest plaque placed since 1958. Unveiled by L.J. Wallace, General Chairman, British Columbia Centennial Committee. October 29, 1967.)
Taken stealthily because even though it was late at night the rest area wasn't empty. Though really, why I should care if strange women see me taking photos of hand dryers I do not know.
not really... it is Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum)
Liliaceae family
I was walking Rio across a very muddy wet lawn and slipped and fell, getting soaked with the muddy wetness... and thus I noticed thru the woods the low growing trilliums, so after rinsing off most of the mud I grabbed my camera and umbrella and went to play.... it was a lovely day! at least for mosses and trilliums!
For Monochrome Bokeh Thursday! I found a bunch of these when I stopped to stretch my legs at a Rest Stop in Glenwood Canyon along I-70 on my return trip from Western Colorado. Such interesting wildflowers (or weeds to some) don't you think?
I never noticed disabled parking for the big rigs and campers.
I wish I noticed when I was towing the big camper..
Minnesota, USA - October 5, 2021: Welcome sign for Grand Portage State Park, known for a large waterfall
Westbound rest area on US Route 30 near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. This one appears to have been built in the early 2000s.
This is US Route 30 between Bucyrus and Beaverdam, Ohio. This is a divided highway with both interchanges and ground-level intersections. I am sure there is a technical name for this type of road, but I just call them "Hybrid Highways" since they have many design features of Interstate highways (like wide shoulders, interchanges, no signals / stop signs, and higher 65 or 70 mph speed limits) while also having features of other rural roads (such as lower traffic roads intersecting and the road being open to slow moving traffic prohibited from interstates).
I personally like this type of road, but they seem to be the most common in the northwestern part of Ohio. US 30 is built as this type of road from the Indiana border to Canton. There were once plans to continue US 30 from Canton to East Liverpool in a similar fashion, but those plans never materialized.
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Rowes Lagoon NSW. A rest area off the Hume Highway commemorating John Edmonson VC who died at Tobruk during WWII.
Tucker - 27.08.2013
In Germany you have rest stops every 30 miles near the highway. You get gas, food, and other things which are making your travel more convenient. You also find these places in the US, but sometimes you must drive 100 miles or more to get a coffee. What you see here is the playground of a abandoned rest area in the middle of nowhere. What you can't see in the picture is the former gas station and the restaurant and some dilapidated shacks. The access to the rest area was barred with a old truck, but the whole area was populated with old trailer homes... Such a strange place. It would be a great project to photograph strange and abandoned places in the US, but you must have enough time to travel thousands of miles through the landscape... Thanks for following my s**t on flickr.
After a bit of a hike up the side of a hill behind a rest area in Tennessee, we were treated to a lovely vista.
Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission. © Barbara Dickie. All rights reserved.
An abundance of downed trees resulting from the recent ice storm has necessitated the closure of both the northbound and southbound rest areas at Baldock on Interstate 5.
Seems like kind of an antique in the scheme of things. I thought for a sec it was a soap dispenser, so started the thing up by accident before my hands were washed. I had to go back to the car for my camera to shoot this. Wonder what the guy in the stall thought when the flash went off...
Bikes and a tractor barn. A rest stop along the Tour de Pike in Pike County, Georgia.
Nikon D7000 -- Nikon 80-200mm F2.8 ED
200mm
F8@1/80th
ISO 400
Cropped
(DSC_9963 - 2)
©Don Brown 2016
Do you remember the Garbage Gobbler? Created in the 1950s and placed across the province in B.C. Parks and at points along BC highways in order to “Keep Beautiful British Columbia, Clean and Beautiful,” Garbage Gobblers were a truly cool piece of transportation history. Sadly, Garbage Gobblers proved to be as popular with bears as they were with people and eventually they had to be replaced in favour of bear proof cans (which were not as artsy, but much more practical). Even though Garbage Gobblers disappeared from BC roadways, our love for them lives on in treasured family road trip photos and in retrospective discussions of days gone by. (Heck, the gobbler was so loved – he even has his own Facebook page!)
Well, he’s baaaaack. (And he’s hungry!)
We are thrilled to announce that the Garbage Gobbler has been re-imagined and re-introduced to a handful of rest areas across the province as part of our Rest Area Improvement Program.
Read the blog post:
tranbc.ca/2015/07/31/the-return-of-the-garbage-gobbler-to...