The Kroozin Stop API

A free, public, unauthenticated JSON API describing this facility: truck parking status, fuel, amenities, and routing. Built for fleet software, ELD platforms, dispatch systems, navigation providers and trucking apps.

https://kroozintruckstop.com/api/v1/ · No API key · No rate limit · CORS open · Free to redistribute with attribution.

The one rule that matters. A null in this API is a fact, not a gap. It means NOT MEASURED. Render the accompanying status field and never substitute a value.

A truck-parking count that is wrong sends a tired driver to a full lot at 2 a.m. A null sends them somewhere they can actually stop.

Current state, stated plainly

Kroozin is open at I-10 Exit 815. Facility amenities now return OPEN and appear in the advertisable list. Measured values are a separate matter: every price returns null and truck parking returns UNKNOWN, because no occupancy or price feed is commissioned yet. That is the correct response, not a fault.

The distinction is the whole contract. Capacity is a fact, availability is a measurement. totalSpaces is publishable the day the concrete cures; availableSpaces is publishable only while a real observation is under 60 minutes old. Outside that window it returns to null and freshness reports UNAVAILABLE — never a carried-over number.

Every feed on this page is generated from the canonical location record, so a value can never drift from what the business actually publishes elsewhere.

Endpoints

Endpoint	Returns
`GET /api/v1/stop`	Everything below in one call. Start here.
`GET /api/v1/location`	Identity, coordinates, entrances, operational status
`GET /api/v1/fuel`	Diesel, DEF, gasoline — status, positions, lane wait, price
`GET /api/v1/truck-parking`	Parking status and count
`GET /api/v1/amenities`	Every amenity with status, plus the `advertisable` list
`GET /api/v1/food-status`	Food service status and hours
`GET /api/v1/directions`	Google / Apple / Waze deep links and the truck entrance
`GET /api/v1/stop-lock-services`	Services a driver can plan for right now

/api/public/truck-parking is a permanent alias, kept for TxDOT and DriveTexas consumers who integrated against it first.

The fields you have to handle correctly

Amenity status

Every amenity carries one of six values:

PLANNED · UNDER_CONSTRUCTION · TESTING · OPEN · TEMPORARILY_UNAVAILABLE · CLOSED

Only OPEN may be shown to a driver as available. /api/v1/amenities returns a pre-computed advertisable array — use it and omit everything else.

Omit, don't grey out. A greyed-out shower on a dispatcher's screen still reads as "they have showers."

Truck parking

status is one of PLENTY, AVAILABLE, FILLING_FAST, NEAR_CAPACITY, FULL, UNKNOWN. availableSpaces is a number or null.

A count is only published when all four hold: the site is operational; the source is a sensor, camera count or gate counter (never a manual count); the observation is under 20 minutes old; and source confidence is at least 0.85.

"availableSpaces": 0 with "status": "FULL" is a real and expected response. Kroozin reports a full lot honestly — a facility that hides its full nights is one whose "81 open" nobody believes.

The truck entrance is not the pin

facility.truckEntrance is separate from facility.latitude/longitude and is currently null with surveyed: false.

Route commercial vehicles to the display pin until it is populated. I-10 is limited-access here and the street address does not geocode; when the surveyed entrance lands, it will be the difference between a tractor-trailer arriving and being routed past.

Diesel lane wait

NO_WAIT · SHORT_WAIT · BUSY · UNKNOWN. Bands only — Kroozin does not publish a claimed minute count. A wrong "4 minute wait" costs the sale and the trust; a band that says BUSY is right often enough to be useful.

Example

curl https://kroozintruckstop.com/api/v1/stop

{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "facility": {
    "id": "KROOZIN_I10_815",
    "name": "Kroozin Truck Stop & Travel Center",
    "highway": "I-10",
    "exit": "815",
    "latitude": 29.839034,
    "longitude": -94.603414,
    "truckEntrance": { "latitude": null, "longitude": null, "surveyed": false }
  },
  "operational": false,
  "operationalStatus": "UNDER_CONSTRUCTION",
  "openingYear": 2026,
  "truckParking": {
    "status": "UNKNOWN",
    "totalSpaces": 150,
    "availableSpaces": null,
    "freeOvernight": true,
    "reservedSpaces": 45,
    "updatedAt": null
  },
  "diesel": {
    "status": "UNDER_CONSTRUCTION",
    "highFlow": true,
    "positions": 18,
    "lanes": 5,
    "laneStatus": "UNKNOWN",
    "price": null
  }
}

What is here

Kroozin sits at I-10 Exit 815 in Hankamer, Texas — in the middle of the 59-mile stretch between Baytown and Beaumont with no full-service truck stop. Roughly 65,000 vehicles a day pass this point, about 20,700 of them trucks.

150+ free overnight truck spaces — lit, camera-covered, staffed overnight
18 diesel positions across 5 high-flow lanes, DEF at every lane, truck lanes separate from cars
Private showers cleaned after every use, laundry, driver lounge, Wi-Fi
Kroozin BBQ, breakfast tacos and kolaches from 4 a.m., 24/7
Dedicated truck entrance, separated from automobile and RV flow

Fleet and dispatch platforms: if you can surface this facility to drivers or let a dispatcher insert it as a stop, we want to help you do it and we will fill in whatever fields your schema needs.

info@kroozintruckstop.com

Known limits

totalSpaces is 150+, settled 26 Aug 2026. Read it from this endpoint rather than hard-coding it, so a future change propagates.
Truck entrance coordinates are unsurveyed. Use the display pin.
No occupancy system is installed, so availableSpaces will be null until one is commissioned.

What Kroozin is not

Kroozin is a private commercial facility. It is not a TxDOT Safety Rest Area and is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with TxDOT. If you display this data alongside state facility data, label Kroozin as a private facility.

Versioning

Breaking changes ship under a new path (/api/v2/). /api/v1/ keeps its contract. Additive fields may appear in v1 without notice, so parse leniently and ignore unknown keys.