Anchor Lake Rest Area
Rest area · US-53 · MP 50
Not verified
— some details below come from datasets or chain policies and have not been confirmed at this location.
Location
Cotton, MN
⚠ These apps give car directions. Truck-safe routing (low bridges, weight limits, restricted roads) is not verified — check with a truck GPS.
Coordinates 47.31930, -92.47130 (OpenStreetMap)
Truck parking
- Truck parking
- Yes · about 8 truck spaces
- Cost
- Freeinferred
- Overnight
- Not confirmed
- Time limit
- Reported state limit: 4 h where posted (10 h commercial) (confirm posted signs)
- Without buying fuel
- Yes
- Reservations
- Not confirmed
- Details
- Public rest area — no parking fee is normally charged. Time limits and truck-space availability vary; obey posted signs.
Showers
- Showers
- Unknown
- Cost
- Unknown
Food
- Free meals
- Unknown
- Free breakfast
- Unknown
Veteran & Purple Heart benefits
- Veterans
- Unknown
- Purple Heart
- Unknown
Notes
Public truck parking site from the USDOT Jason's Law survey (Saint Louis County). Space count as surveyed (~2019); not live availability. Merged duplicate TF-MN-08B3908E (same facility in OpenStreetMap and USDOT survey (106 m apart)).
Sources
- www.openstreetmap.org/way/1073129496
- www.thewaywardhome.com/can-you-sleep-at-a-rest-area/
- catalog.data.gov/dataset/truck-stop-parking
Listing ID TF-MN-8704E8C4
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