Beckley, Bluestone travel plazas to have food, restroom and parking services open during historic rebuild

Tourists will still be in a position to prevent, consider a break, and pick up things for the street when the Beckley and Bluestone travel plazas on the West Virginia Turnpike shut down up coming month for a series of full renovations.

The Beckley and Bluestone vacation plazas will be shut starting Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, to start demolition and site redevelopment. Both of those vacation plazas will be rebuilt from the ground up. 

But Jeff Miller, executive director of the West Virginia Parkways Authority, explained that doesn’t imply motorists will not be ready to prevent.

“We will continue to be able to offer motorists a risk-free region to get off the roadway, park and rest, acquire a split,” Miller reported. “We will have individuals spots nevertheless open.

“We’re privileged at the Beckley journey plaza off Exit 45 that we do have Tamarack Marketplace found proper there,” he said. “They have a total-support restaurant, restrooms, retail, and get-n-go spot.”

Miller said that commencing Saturday, April 1, 2023 the several hours of the Tamarack Market, located future door to the Beckley journey plaza, will develop. The facility will open 7 days a 7 days from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., a improve from 6 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

Restroom renovations at the Tamarack Marketplace will be concluded in a few weeks. The Tamarack Market will also open ‘Country Streets Marketplace.’ The addition is aimed at supplementing the needs of interstate tourists with convenience shop offerings such as foods, beverages and car or truck products.

Miller reported motorists of tractor-trailers will not have to seem for choice places from Beckley and Bluestone for conference, switching tools, and fueling. 

“The fueling operations, which do incorporate restrooms and market snacks and beverages, will continue being pretty much via the entirety of the job,” Miller mentioned. “We will be capable to continue to keep all of the parking open up which is really utilized for tractor-trailer parking.”

Miller mentioned the only time parking will be impacted will be through paving operations.

The newly redeveloped vacation plazas will supply expanded foods principles, a 24/7 Mountain Condition Industry convenience keep, out of doors dining options, expanded parking for tractor-trailers and passenger motor vehicles, EV charging stations, divided vehicle and tractor-trailer fueling solutions, picnic space, and pet reduction places. 

The Beckley journey plaza will offer you a travel-as a result of, improved restroom amenities, and bus parking, as properly as enhancing and highlighting the Parkways Authority Vacationer Details Facilities.

Design of the new journey plazas is envisioned to be concluded by late 2024.

“Long-phrase, the facility that we will deliver to the touring community and to drivers will be a globe-course facility,” Miller mentioned.

The Morton Vacation Plaza close to Burnwell will stay open right until renovations to that facility begin in 2025.

In Might 2022, the Parkways Authority accredited the expenditure of $152 million spread more than 3 fiscal several years to revamp the Turnpike’s journey plazas. Options had been based on the results of a 2021 study of Turnpike travelers.