Tiffin River Service Plaza - Ohio Turnpike Eastbound - West Unity, Ohio
N 41° 36.218 W 084° 24.465
16T E 716019 N 4609015
This is the first service plaza on the Ohio Turnpike if you are heading eastbound from Indiana. It is located at Milepost 20.8 and is located in Franklin Township in Fulton County, Ohio (Also on Interstates 80 and 90)
Waymark Code: WMH409
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 05/18/2013
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Tiffin River Service Plaza - Ohio Turnpike Eastbound - West Unity, 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 service plaza completed reconstruction in 2011 and is named for the nearby Tiffin River, which the Turnpike crosses about 4-1/2 Miles east from here.
The Tiffin River was named for Dr. Edward Tiffin, Ohio’s first governor, who won fame for defeating the plans of Aaron Burr to establish a western empire.
To take the Ohio Turnpike across the river which bears Governor Tiffin’s name, the contractors constructed a straight new channel for the stream about 300 feet to the east of the old winding course, and sealed off the old channel for a length of about 1,000 feet. This operation provided a more suitable crossing for a turnpike and protected the roadways from possible future flooding.