Towpath Service Plaza - Ohio Turnpike Eastbound - Broadview Heights, Ohio
N 41° 17.499 W 081° 40.549
17T E 443413 N 4571354
This Service Plaza is accessible via the Ohio Turnpike at Mile 170.1 Eastbound in the City of Broadview Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Waymark Code: WMH40V
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 05/18/2013
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Towpath Service Plaza - Ohio Turnpike Eastbound - Broadview Heights, Ohio
ABOUT OHIO TURNPIKE SERVICE PLAZAS
The Ohio Turnpike Commission embarked on a project in the late 1990's to replace the over 40-year-old service plazas with state-of-the-art facilities.
This service plaza is one of fourteen service plazas that has been reconstructed on the existing sites of the original construction in the 1950's. The new service plazas
offer a multitude of conveniences to Turnpike customers. Included are a large variety of food offerings, expanded restrooms, and information wall
with travel and weather information, more parking for cars, trucks and busses and much more.
AMENITIES
Service plazas offer the following amenities for your convenience:
- ATM (Automated Teller Machine)
- Food Court
- Fuel
- Gift Shops
- Handicapped Accessibility
- Life-Saving Technology
- Parking
- Pet Walks
- Picnic Grounds
- Plaza Managers On-Site
- Restrooms
- TTY Phones
- Telephones
- Travel Information
- Truckers' Lounge
- Vehicle Supplies
- Vending Machines
ABOUT THIS SERVICE PLAZA
This plaza was one of the first to be rehabbed as it opened in October 1999. The history of the area can be found on the Towpath Service Plaza history
Webpage. A Short excerpt is included below:
Along the towpath of the old Ohio and Erie Canal, which lies beneath the Ohio Turnpike’s Cuyahoga River twin bridges seven miles east of the Towpath Service Plaza, straining mules once pulled the canal barges that brought improved transportation and prosperity to Ohio in the 1830s and 1840s. It was close by the old towpath that the first shovel full of earth was overturned on October 27, 1952 to start construction of the Ohio Turnpike, which provides in the mid-twentieth century another great step forward in expanding Ohio’s markets and improving its main avenues of transportation.