High Peaks rest station and text zone, you are like no other. You alone have raised the bar for every other rest station to emulate. Your wooden cabin-like exterior and name, spelled out in saplings… you are what every tree dreams of becoming. Your parking, so perfectly adequate, and your spacing from the previous stops… so much appreciated by my aging bladder. Yet, for all your outside charm, you fool me not with your dizzying array of intelligence, spelled out pamphlet by pamphlet to educate the weary traveller of the opportunities that await to separate a man from his currencies while ooohing and aahhing at the mountainous splendor. You sneaky double headed scoundrel! Redeem yourself with clean bathrooms with automated sinks, lest my heart be sullied. For this pilgrim with glutius maximus aches from miles of ribboning highway, a long long way from the place I call home, I will forever mourn that our time was too short, and that, like ships passing in the night, our encounter was far to brief, but at least it did require washing hands afterwards. I will sleep better, no matter the distance that separates, knowing that you will steadfastly press on, perched upon yon mountain high, serving mankind in the noblest of ways.
Diana C.
Place rating: 5 Albany, NY
Kind of weird to review a rest stop, right? Wrong, this one deserves its 15 min of Unilocal-fame. It’s always a gamble when you have to stop at a rest area in less populated areas. Sometimes you have to make the game time decision between risking your life or your bladder. Well, not if you’re near this rest area! If you can somehow time your bathroom break with the high peaks north stop, well you must be a pro road tripper, otherwise– you’re in luck! This stop hosts beautiful views of the Adirondacks, tourist information, vending area, and super clean bathrooms with stalls bigger than some studio apts in NYC. If you happen to be close to this rest stop hopefully you’re feeling like you need to make a stop or you can practice some defensive voiding. Either way, you can leave your pepper spray in the car!
Marin C.
Place rating: 5 Simi Valley, CA
This is a rest area. Wow. Excellent place to stop and gather information about the touristy whatnot in Vermont. The different activities and opportunities are each organized into lots of categories and it’s very comprehensive. Green Mt. coffee for a small fee. Banos, again. P. S. I think the previous reviewer may have a future or an good career in writing advertising copy. He could write ‘Pure Vermont’ ads.
Gerald S.
Place rating: 5 Newtown, PA
The moment was perfect. The early afternoon heat was stirring up thunder storms as the Mariah wind wove through the mountains. The sky was still bright with blue and white, but to the north darkness was growing; reflecting the light dramatically. The rest stop was little more than bathrooms and vending machines, with only a few travelers and road warriors. Slow down. Take a look around. The Adirondacks spread out in all directions… The sky broke open in a full tilt sun shining rain shower with the drum of thunder in the distance… Cleansing rain to sooth the weary soul.
