[pct-l] Dinosaur Truck Stop in Cabazon -- 4th Best Truck Stop

[aandg at telusplanet.net (Alistair and Gail Des Moulins)]

Gail and I ate at The Wheel Inn on our thru hike in 2003 and again while in 
the area in May 2005. We found the food to be  plentiful, quite good and 
reasonably priced but are surprised it is rated 4th best truck stop. Our 
vote for the best truck stops would be all the Flying Js near I15 in Utah 
and the Union Truck stop just NW of Kingman AZ where we had a great buffet 
breakfast with fresh baked corn muffins before a 6 day trip in the Grand 
Canyon.
Returning to topic (!), the best reason to visit Cabazon on a thru or 
section hike is the Hadley's store about 2 miles west of the Wheel Inn on 
the north side of I10. It has a great selection of fine breads, granolas, 
dried fruits, nuts, trail mixes etc. We did most of our resupply from there 
to head north to Big Bear supplementing a few items from the grocery store 
in town nearer the Wheel Inn. (We chose not to go to Idyllwild on our thru 
hike).
Further up the trail we phoned Hadley's 1-800 number and mail ordered some 
more of their great products.
see http://www.hadleyfruitorchards.com/index.cfm
for further details.

Alistair and Gail
(just returned from 4 days ski touring in Jasper National Park where it 
rained all night as high as 6500 feet on Christmas Eve!)
----- Original Message ----- 
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:16:12 -0800
> From: "Dr. Patch O'Malley IV" <patch@aidshike.org>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Dinosaur Truck Stop in Cabazon -- 4th Best Truck
> Stop on Food Channel
> To: PCT List <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Message-ID: <43B0F84C.3060503@aidshike.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> That said, I'd love to mention that aside from the fact that they sell
> hand painted plastic pans with clocks in them (which are hilariously
> tacky, but awesome), I am not too big a fan of the place. I went to
> college nearby, and when I visited it, I wasn't impressed. Plus, if they
> serve everybody huge portions, and most of the food doesn't get eaten,
> that's not really a good thing if you ask me...
>
> It does have the dinosaurs from Pee Wee's Big Adventure though. No point
> in denying that.
>
> -patch
>
>
>
> Datto wrote:
>
>>Just wanted to let y'all know of some PCT news. The Wheel Inn (the truck 
>>stop at the Dinosaurs
>>along the PCT near Cabazon) was voted the 4th best truck stop in America 
>>by The Food Channel.
>>
>>The report featured the Czech owners -- the owners said they only ever had 
>>one person who ever
>>said the portions weren't big enough -- some really skinny guy they said.
>>
>>I'm assuming it was a suave and debonair hiker type.
>>
>>The Turkey Dinner at that truck stop sure was good.
>>
>>Datto
>>