Overview
- The Goodyear Buc‑ee's officially opened Monday, June 22, with the parking lot opening at midnight, doors at 6 a.m., and a ribbon‑cutting planned for 8 a.m.
- The travel center covers 74,000 square feet, offers about 120 fueling positions and will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Roughly a thousand superfans camped or lined up overnight to reach opening-day checkouts that produced hour-long lines and a festive crowd atmosphere.
- City officials routed traffic onto a 6.5-mile loop, closed specific ramps and imposed a short public‑right‑of‑way construction moratorium while police issued trespass citations to control safety and congestion.
- Officials expect the site to create more than 200 jobs locally and to expand Buc‑ee's national footprint, bringing the chain to 56 locations across 13 states as it pushes farther west.