Travel Centers of America

There is a ton of bad reviews for this place, but there are some good folks and maybe one chick with one eye ball stressing her neck out to see what you are doing but it’s a TA and I parked in reserve parking and didn’t fucken pay shit and no one said shit and I purchased gas and DEF in the morning and went on my way.

The Travelcenter of America in Wheat Ridge, Colorado seems to be enforcing their 2 hours parking limit rule. Our family takes long road trips in our RV. We usually drive all day and then stop at a TA America at night to fill up, get some snacks, and stay over night in the parking lot and then leave first thing in the morning. We never had any issue. Then this one night when we were staying over night there, we heard some banging on our door at 4am. We were told by the security guard there that there is no overnight parking and we had an hour to leave. So we left.

Being a military spouse I’ve traveled thousands of miles in the past 25+ years and I HATE to say this but this is the WORST place we’ve ever had the misfortune to have to spend the night at! Had to get permission to be able to catch a few hours of sleep, the manager on duty FINALLY said if we were gone by 0500 it would be ok, mind you I was a paying customer. Purchased 30.00 of fuel, ate at the café that night, planned on having breakfast here as well before I go to church. One would think that a business that caters to travelers would welcome those of us that were with the military but no!!! Food was pretty good. They have a night time security guard. I could understand the managers attitude if we were just using his facilities for free, but NO, WE WERE PAYING CUSTOMERS!!! I bet he doesn’t tell others who sit in the café all day long and only purchasing a cup of coffee with free refills all day long anything other than thank you for your service! I’m so angry at the way we were treated I think I’m going to call the corporate office and lodge a formal complaint! My advice is to stop anywhere in the Denver metro area but here if you want to be treated with respect. And I used to work in the same type of business and if any of my employees treated a paying customer like this, he would be FIRED ON THE SPOT!
BTW the last row of parking in front of this establishment has a sign «Parking limit two hours» was told it was for the bob tail semis. WHAT A FREAKING LIE!!! All the same trucks are there when I had supper about sunset and it’s now after MIDNIGHT they will shut down their motors and every 45 min or so fire them back up! When the sun comes up I will post a picture of the sign. Finally moved the car so it would stop vibrating from the Semi’s engines powering up and down. Just ran into an employee who was walking in the parking lot, my service animal had to go pee, she told me that if I wanted a quiet place to go to the Park and Ride on the other side of I-​70, guess she didn’t think about there being NO SECURITY THERE!!! And thank you very much but I’d like to live thru the night.

A whole row of unused «Reserved Parking»! Its just another money grab. Get rid of these, truckers do NOT make a lot of money and it is expensive out here. So frustrating to find a parking spot to begin with. :(

Their new Mexican breakfast dishes tasted good. Waitress didnt check back or could have corrected the error of the extra enchilada being brought out as an English muffin. Other than that, food n cleanliness ok. Bathrooms were clean.

Every TA I’ve been to has great service and happy workers. The manager Kim with the red hair has a power trip and is extremely rude. Cause of her lead all the staff looks unhappy and unpleasant. No smiles here! Unwelcoming remarks and body language can make any person not want to come here again.

Pulled in here at around 11 p.m. on a cold night last year when my rental pickup truck’s dashboard indicator showed seriously low pressure on three tires. Garage manager on duty asked one of her techs to check the tires. He diagnosed the problem as cold weather and said the problem would resolve itself with a few miles of driving. He was right.
The best part: No charge. I tipped the guy, though.

Took a tractor in for overheating problem in summer. They diagnosed with a charge air cooler problem and charged us $ 1400 to fix. Did not fix overheating issue. Got tractor back to home base to find real problem was radiator. The service manager insisted the tech who worked on the tractor had 30 years experience. 30 years changing oil at now working at this dump for long hours and low pay. I will never run a tractor into a this TA again. They overcharge because they are last truck stop headed west on I-​70 before mountains. Waste of hard earned $$$$.