Road Trip 2015 Toll Roads

We traveled on numerous toll roads on this trip. In our entire trip which was
6665 miles, we estimate that we paid well over $100+ dollars in tolls. Toll roads differed depending on the state we were traveling through; on some toll roads, you paid to get on, at others you paid each time you exited; and in Colorado on our way home, a camera took a picture of our license plate and a bill will be mailed to our home address (we were on that toll road in late September almost 4 weeks ago; and, have not received a bill yet).

Notice the landscape behind the sign; this is in Massachusetts (sorry about the bug smears - taken through the windshield).

This is a small fee area in Mass. Depending on the amount of traffic, there could be as many as 10 to 12 lanes. If you had one of the electronic pay devices, you could just slow down to 5 to 10 mph and drive through the designated lane(s). As we were paying cash, we had to stop, get a ticket, then proceed on our way and stop in a similar fee area when we exited to pay the required fee (so we had to look for CASH lanes).

This wasn't our first experience traveling on toll roads. But, it was our first experience with the Service Areas associated with the toll roads. This Service Area was in Ohio.

Service Areas like the one pictured above were located about every 40 to 50 miles on the toll roads we traveled (I 80 and I 90 both have toll sections). These were great as we didn't have to find an exit, and pay a toll to get off; then fine an entrance back to the toll road. We just pulled in ate, used the rest rooms, shopped, got tourist information and were on the road again. We did get gas at one of the Service Areas but had to pay about $0.30 a gallon more than we had paid at the last non-toll road gas station. So we made sure we had plenty of gas before getting on the next toll road.

Most of the Service Areas where we stopped had at least three fast food places. This on was one of the bigger ones with over six places to eat.

Everything you could ask for when on the road.

Information was always available for the asking. This came in very useful when we were looking for the Amish Country.

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