Truck Stops · Multi-state · October 23, 2026

11 New Buc-ee's Locations Are Expected in 2027. Here Is What That Means for Truckers

Semi trucks rolling past a giant travel center with a packed car lot and a no-trucks sign at the entrance — Illustration for this story. Not a photo of a specific location.

Eleven new Buc-ee's travel centers in seven states are expected to open in 2027, according to CDL Life. For road-tripping families, that is welcome news.

For a lot of professional truck drivers, the reaction is different. CDL Life calls its list a guide to where truckers "will be the least welcome next year."

The 2027 list, state by state

Four states are expecting their first Buc-ee's, according to CDL Life's Oct. 22 report:

Wisconsin: Oak Creek, south of Milwaukee on Interstate 94, scheduled for April 2027.
Louisiana: Ruston, at Interstate 20 and Tarbutton Road, expected around mid-2027. A second Louisiana store is planned for Lafayette sometime in 2027, though details have not been released.
North Carolina: Mebane, expected in the fourth quarter of 2027. The Buc-ee's website calls November the most likely month and mentions billboards along Interstate 40.
Kansas: Kansas City, near the Kansas Speedway at Interstate 70 and West Village Parkway. The month is contested. Early plans said October 2027, but a recent post on the Buc-ee's Kansas City Facebook page moved it to spring 2027.

Three states that already have stores are getting two more each:

Georgia: Monroe County and Forsyth, both along Interstate 75, which would be the state's fourth and fifth locations.
Tennessee: Fayette County, now expected in May 2027 after first being expected this past summer, and Gallaway, delayed to an estimated August 2027. Those would be the state's third and fourth stores.
Florida: The state's first Panhandle location, near Tallahassee on Interstate 10, plus a Fort Pierce store near the I-95 and Indrio Road interchange in St. Lucie County.

Buc-ee's already has 58 locations in 14 states, with 37 of them in its home state of Texas, CDL Life reports.

Why truckers feel left out

The tension comes down to parking lots. Buc-ee's stores sit right on major interstates, the same highways that semi trucks (tractor-trailers, often called 18-wheelers) travel every day. But CDL Life has reported on Buc-ee's signs keeping semis off the lot, like the ones posted at the Bastrop, Texas, store earlier this year.

In a February 2026 report, CDL Life said the Bastrop store posted curbside signs banning semi trucks "as usual," and that this time the signs also showed a dump truck and a pickup pulling a trailer. That report was based on a customer's Facebook post that had been circulating online.

It is important to be clear about what is and is not known. Buc-ee's has no public policy document on trucks, according to CDL Life, and the company did not respond to requests for comment from news outlets at the time. So the signs are a matter of reporting and photos from one store, not an official company-wide rule that Buc-ee's has published.

The bigger picture for drivers

For drivers, the frustration is easy to understand. Eleven more giant travel stops are going up along major interstates, and the people who spend their working lives on those highways may not be able to pull in. Drivers passing those exits will still need somewhere to fuel, eat, and park for the night.

For everyone else, the list is simply a map of what is coming. Travelers in Wisconsin, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Kansas will soon have a Buc-ee's in their own state for the first time.

Opening dates can shift, and several of these already have. Readers planning a trip around a new store may want to check for updates closer to 2027.