New Baltimore Travel Plaza

I’m spoiled by The Midwest. Our travel plazas are spacious, clean and have lots of options for coffee. This space is dated, filthy, and nothing is open at 9:12 PM. Okay, I lied. Roy Rogers is open and the line at Starbucks is winding around the bend. Hell NO! I would pass, but it was an emergency if ya catch my drift! Holiday traffic on the thruway is a beast!

We decided to stop by here because we needed a break from driving and they have a Starbucks. It’s nothing fancy and could use a good cleaning and updating. But if you have to pee, you have to pee. I’m happy that their Starbucks offers coconut mylk instead of soy. Always a plus in my book.

Limited exposure here, really. I normally just pop in for a quick bathroom break and then I’m back on the road. Nothing extraordinary about it either way other than I’m glad it’s there!

Given the number of people who travel the NY Thruway every weekend, and the tolls collected, etc. you’d think NY could make these places a little more welcoming, clean, and offer some decent, healthy food. Sorry, but I think NY state rest stops are among the worst in the country. About the only good thing you cna say is that they have a Starbucks (otherwise it would be one star).

I am only giving this rest area two stars because it has a starbucks. Disgusting rest rooms are indicative that they can’t keep up with the cleaning needs or they need to expand capacity. Choose rest areas wisely during holidays.

I don’t think that the word «New» should be next to the words, «Baltimore Travel Plaza.» There is nothing that feels new about it.
So you have a gift shop, a Starbucks, a Quiznos and a fast food forgettable burger joint and a little chachkie shop. Okay. But what do you get when you combine two bus loads of people, a oddly placed farmer’s market in the parking lot with the normal foot traffic from weary drivers?
Here’s a list:
— Impossible lines at all establishments– I left without breakfast. Oh, the humanity!
— Being jostled among other smelly, weary, grouchy tourists
— A line for the men’s room (always raises suspicions) with a line full of blokes clearly looking at my junk as they wait for my filthy urinal.
— A busy parking lot and a dent in my passenger side door from the adjacent car
— Germs. Everything was covered in the stickiness that only busloads of people can provide (and before noon!)
I probably would have overlooked much of the above had it not been for lack of food options. This stop clearly needs a remodel to accommodate the number of people that come traipsing through this stop.
Verdict: If you’re crossing your legs and doing the bucket seat jitter bug– do what you need to do! But… If you’re looking for a little country diner action and a less hectic atmosphere, my Unilocal inquiry led me here:
. It’s off the toll road, but my inner stomach demons were exorcised! Check it out.

Decent rest stop, cleanish, nice selection of food options, nice looking grounds.
Nothing wrong but nothing special.

Horrible. The women’s restroom had pee on the floor. You had to wait in line for a stall, only the people around you don’t always get the concept of waiting in line. Then as they push past, if you don’t watch where you step, you step in pee. $ 6 for a small bag of pistacios. The Roy Rogers underfills their fries. The farmers market has nice grapes, but that’s not enough reason to stop. And the burger my husband bought (overpriced) looked as though someone sat on it.

Decent rest area with not too many options with food. Roy Rodgers, pizza and Quiznos are your main choices as well as Starbucks and the quicky mart type of store.
The bathrooms were very clean — I must say out of all rest areas I’ve been in — this was one of the cleanest as far as bathroom stalls.
Note to those traveling past 9 pm and liking for a cup of joe from Starbucks — they close at 9… :-/

Starbucks — clean restrooms — petrol — a place to stretch. What more could you ask for on a long journey from home going North.

Your standard NYS Thruway Rest Area. Place is a bit small, but the seating areas and the bathrooms were clean, and the food was decent. (I went to Roy Rodgers). They Gas station layout is a little weird compared to the other rest areas.

Unfortunately for us our bus trip stopped at the New Baltimore Travel Plaza on the way to and from VT. The bathroom were very clean which is awesome but the food places were super slow and with a bus of 50 people all trying to get food at once it got a little frustrating. Over all the place wasn’t bad but we would of prefer something a little quicker.

10:44p nothing open here but restrooms and Roy Rogers!!! I want some dagnabbit hot cappacino or latte or something good to sip for the drive back to jersey! Starbucks was closed :-(

Old style interstate services stop on the Northway, but certainly not one of the better ones.
Provides the necessary plumbing, so it serves an important function. Too, a place to gas up if your tank is approaching «E.» The weak link is the food. Roy’s, La Famiglia Pizza, Star$$$, but nothing more than empty caloric stomach fillers and expensive caffeine. There is a small shop to buy drinks and snacks if the other choices are turn offs.
Farmers’ Market is small and spotty. Plenty of parking.
If you are heading further north, stop at the High Peaks Rest Area. Beautiful location, vending machines only, and clean bathrooms. Minimalist, but if you need more, there are cool places off most of the exits.

Spent 2 hours here while driving to Lake Placid during the 2 foot snowstorm right after christmas 2012 after the roads just got so bad (Yes, we made it, 11 hours later), so I’ve got a pretty good feeling of the place.
As a rest stop goes, it’s one of the better ones. Plenty of seating, decent food options (Roy Rogers/​Famigila/​Auntie Annes/​Quiznos/​Starbucks), Travelmart, and clean bathrooms.
Points off for being wildly overpriced, as all rest stops are ($ 4 for a tiny slice of pizza, $ 9 for a quiznos sandwich), Famigilia being horrible, and the staff usually being slow behind the counter.
All in all, it’s a rest stop, would normally be 2* like most of the others on the thruway are, but I’ll give this one 3* because of the cleanliness factor and decent food choices.

Nous, nous arrêtons depuis une dizaine d’années à cet Area, mon épouse et moi et à chaque année et c’est toujours avec un immense plaisir que nous dînons et ou déjeunons, c’est propre et très accueillant.

This is a very convenient rest area because you can access it from both north and south on I-​87. The rest rooms are well maintained, and toasty warm in chilly weather. It has a good travel mart and a nice variety of dining options — at rest area prices, unfortunately.

Any rest stop with a Starbucks is great in my eyes. Stop here once at 12AM and Roy Rogers was the only one open. Food was okay, and they had a little salad bar for all your burger fixing. This rest stop is connected to both North and South routes.

Stopped here on the way back from Cooperstown last month. I was wearing a Montréal Expos cap and an Arcade Fire t-​shirt, so I suppose it could have been mistaken that I was from Montréal. Alas, I am not. It was a nice respite from the ghastly Sunday afternoon traffic on the Thruway, as well as the apocalyptic thunderstorm that didn’t let up for 7 hours — save for the hour we spent in the New Baltimore Travel Plaza. Of course.
The place is small, especially for the number of people who go there. The line for Starbucks was longer than something you’d see in Midtown on a normal work day. And thankfully I’m male because the line for the ladies room was comparable to that of a line following a concert at MSG. I was out of the men’s room in just a few seconds though, so I’ll be quiet.
They had Quizno’s, which definitely did the trick since they seem to be decreasing in numbers down in the city, and it was made fresh. The wifi did not seem to work though, as I spent the entire time I was there trying to unsuccessfully connect to the state’s network. It did work at other rest stops though, so I dunno. Too crowded?
Also I find it somewhat amusing that the Travel Mart sells «New York City» shirts, like it’s right down the road. Just another hour or two.
In closing, the New Baltimore Travel Plaza is a rest stop along the Thruway to stop at, use the bathroom and get something to eat.

My tour bus returning to New York City from Montréal and Québec City, Canada came here to a screaching halt after a four hour non-​stop drive for a nature call. Agree with a previous reviewer that New Baltimore Travel Plaza is not exactly full of options, for a travel plaza this is surely a small one. Indeed ample parking for all vehicle formats (including charter buses) and all offer the necessities. The restrooms are not ideally clean and looks quite shabby.
The restaurants in this travel plaza are: Roy Rogers, Starbucks, Famous Famiglia, Quizno’s, Travel Mart. New Baltimore Travel Plaza is dated to the 1950’s era (both inside and outside) as age is shows in its structure.

Of all the various travel plazas along the route this one has to be one of the smaller ones. Not exactly full of options, however when you have to make a pit they do have plenty of parking and all the necessities.
There are certainly bigger better plazas. This one also looked a little dated and from a much older time.