BETO Junction Travel Plaza is a

truck stop A truck stop (known as a service station in the United Kingdom, a travel center by major chains in the United States and a roadhouse in rural Australia) is a commercial facility which provides refueling, rest (parking), and often ready-made f ...

located at the intersection of Interstate 35 (I-35) and U.S. Highway 75 (US 75) in

Coffey County, Kansas Coffey County is a county located in Eastern Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Burlington. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 8,360. It was named after A.M. Coffey, a territorial legislator and Free-Stater d ...

, north of the

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. BETO refers to the four closest major cities: Burlington, Emporia,

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, and

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. The truck stop was described on air by

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as "right out in the middle of nothing". The truck stop and travel plaza is a popular stop for long-haul truck drivers and vacationers on road trips through the area. In 1994, the truck stop was so popular it was included on the Kansas state map after having been previously removed from the map in 1993. In 1996, the restaurant, originally opened in 1976, was noted as the nation's best truck stop diner by ''The Guide to America’s Best Truck Stop Diners''. In the same guide that year, identical twin sister servers at the restaurant were voted as having the "most outrageous" personalities.

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