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World's Largest Gas Station Opens Just In Time To Celebrate America
World's Largest Gas Station Opens Just In Time To Celebrate America-June 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:55

Overhead view of the largest gas station in the world--a Buc'ees in Tennessee. The smokey mountains rise in the background and the large parking lot is half full of cars.

A new center devoted to the very American past time of and buying stuff opened last week near Sevierville, Tennessee just off of I-40 and just in time for the 4th of July. It’s a , but not just any Buc-ee’s. This one is represents what is most likely the largest on the planet.

If there is a physical center to the American Zeitgeist it can be found at Buc-ee’s—the world-famous giant gas station chain that dots freeway turn-offs across the American south, but mostly in Texas. The gas stations are already known for their mega-sized stores being more akin to big box stores than your tiny neighborhood Slurp n’ Go, but this one takes the cake, according to . It’s 74,000 square feet staffed with 350 notoriously friendly employees (probably because they’re well paid) this “gas station” has a full barbecue restaurant, giant bathrooms, and snacks sold in both regular and massive sizes. Semis are also banned from the store, which goes a long way towards keeping Buc’ees a welcoming and healthy place for average drivers to stop.

Do you want a finely smoked brisket,, and 5 pounds of gummy worms? Of course you do, who doesn’t? And Buc-ee’s is your one-stop shop.

Oh, they also sell gas, I guess, at the 120 pumps out front.

Buc-ee’s supremacy may be coming to a pit stop near you. With 58 locations in the south, a new even larger Buc-ee’s is planned for Luling, Texas, according to the Show, and the company is eyeing Wisconsin and Colorado for its first locations outside of the Southern US.

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