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The Sutton County Safety Rest Area on I-10 near Sonora, Texas, features picnic-table shelters roofed with giant wagon-wheel-shaped structures, built as part of a 1960s Texas Department of Transportation effort to design regional-heritage-themed rest stops. Each roof structure uses the spoked-wheel motif at a scale far exceeding a real wagon wheel (roughly 4-5 ft in diameter) in order to span and shade a picnic table. Separate rest areas serve eastbound and westbound I-10 traffic near milepost 394-395, west of Sonora.
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Wagon Wheel Rest Stop giant wagon-wheel shelters (I-10)
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Approximate location · 30.590° N, 100.730° W
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Free, publicly accessible TxDOT highway rest area with picnic shelters; open to all travelers.
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I-10 Sutton County Safety Rest Area, near milepost 394-395, west of Sonora, TX (separate eastbound and westbound sites).
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