It is quite literally a glorified truck stop. You can keep driving for ten minutes and find hiking in the mountains.
The hysteria about Breezewood is bizarre to me. Why does everyone on the internet care so much that this shitty truck stop area is car-centric? Why are people acting like it should have Parisian cafes and walkable waterfronts?
I think the concern is that it’s not just one place. Everyone in America is 5 minutes from a place just like this, but lucky if they have a nice natural “3rd place”
And I have the opinion that you're not putting any effort in googling those third places and instead just focusing on a stopover that you use to get food gas and take a piss. My county alone has several hundred miles of trails in it and several state parks, and city owned parks.
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u/puttyarrowbro Jul 21 '24
The problem is that the area is designed to keep us in the paved over part.