Rest area overnight stops.
Is it allowed to spend the night at a rest area? Hope this isn't a dumb question to ask.
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The Texan wrote:dahkota wrote:Many of us are LEO or retired LEO and have NEVER seen or experienced the horrors some talk about. Sure there will be some rest areas that I would not stay in, but those are normally very visible as you enter the rest area. Many have security now and in many rest areas, the local LEOs use it as a quiet area to get their reports done.....As a retired LEO, I have NO problem staying in most of them and have seen more problems and mobile homeless in the retail store lots.
My DH is a LEO. Over the last three years he has stayed with me in rest areas in 14 states from MD to Montana to Arizona to Maine to Florida. We have never had an issue other than a loud truck idling next to us for a few hours. We have had some spectacular sunrises though. Occasionally the rest stops have a great view.
Nobody is saying you're going to be murdered within minutes of pulling into a rest stop. I'm simply saying they get their fair share of crime and in fact are often specifically targeted by many criminals. My LEO experience is all in California, but just do a Google search of rest stop crime and you'll see it's not just limited to California.
