{"id":2548,"date":"2012-11-26T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2012-11-24T17:56:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T23:56:16","slug":"us-20-in-iowa-the-bladder-buster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/us-20-in-iowa-the-bladder-buster\/","title":{"rendered":"US 20 in Iowa: The Bladder Buster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that new 20 is open between US 71 and IA 4, a warning to travelers needs to be updated: <em>There is no publicly available restroom, food, or gas within a mile of US 20 between Early and Webster City.<\/em> There is one stop immediately on US 20 or at an exit between Correctionville and Webster City. There are only four potential rest\/food\/gas stops within 2 miles of 20 between Webster City and Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p>The entire list of what is available within 2 miles of 20 in the 173 miles between IA 31 and US 63 comes down to this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Casey&#8217;s on US 59 in Holstein, \u00bd mile north of US 20<\/li>\n<li>Casey&#8217;s on US 71 in Early, newly built at the interchange (the old one on the south side of town is closed)<\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s and Phillips 66 (plus two hotels) in Webster City at the interchange<\/li>\n<li>Pilot Flying J and Boondocks truck stops at the I-35\/D25 (old 20) interchange, 1\u00bd miles north<\/li>\n<li>Casey&#8217;s in Wellsburg, 2 miles south<\/li>\n<li>Gas station\/Arby&#8217;s\/Godfather&#8217;s at the IA 14 interchange<\/li>\n<li>Kwik Star in Dike, .7 miles north (north on T55, turn right on old 20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Casey&#8217;s in Sac City is 2.3 miles south of 20 on Rolf Avenue and 2.8 miles via the M54 intersection. Services in Fort Dodge are a minimum 3.1 miles away from the US 169 exit. Once you get to US 63, there&#8217;s something available at every interchange in Waterloo. Here are the mileages between the stops:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>32 miles between Correctionville and Early<\/li>\n<li>68 miles between Early and Webster City<\/li>\n<li>55 miles between Webster City and IA 14<\/li>\n<li>18 miles between IA 14 and US 63<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adjust your beverage intake and eating schedule accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that new 20 is open between US 71 and IA 4, a warning to travelers needs to be updated: There is no publicly available restroom, food, or gas within a mile of US 20 between Early and Webster City. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/us-20-in-iowa-the-bladder-buster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}