Iowa 80 Truck Stop & Museum

Traveling with Rich & Julie

Julia A. Keirns
2 min readAug 13, 2023

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We left home in Ohio on Monday, July 31st and traveled 358 miles to the Iowa 80 Truck Stop and Trucking Museum. This truck stop claims the title of the world’s largest truckstop.

Photo by author.

It was established in 1964, which makes it as old as I am. Stepping inside the doors is like stepping into a large shopping mall. There are shops and fast food restaurants galore. Other amenities include a barber shop, chiropractor, custom shop, dental office, laundry facility, showers, library, and even a movie theater. Who could ask for more?

Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. Photo by author.

You can eat and shop and visit the trucking museum. The Iowa 80 Trucking Museum is down the street, and we walked to it from the parking lot. Entrance is free but donations are welcome. What a wonderful display of old antique trucks, modern trucks, rare trucks, and toy trucks.

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Julia A. Keirns

Currently living in an RV full time and traveling across North America. The goal is simply to write about it. Editor of Fiction Shorts, the Challenged, and ROD.