June 12th, 2026 (Wikipedia). Buc-ee's Holdings, Inc., Is an American chain of travel centers. It was created and is owned by Arch "Beaver" Aplin III, and is headquartered in Lake Jackson, Texas, a city south of Houston.The chain was founded in 1982 in Clute, next to Lake Jackson, and established its first travel center in Luling, south of Austin, Texas, in 2003. The company began expanding outside Texas in 2018 with a location in Baldwin County, Alabama, and has since opened stores in 10 states, with plans to open new locations in 10 more.
Buc-ee's has stated that its parking lots and driveways are not designed to accommodate 18-wheelers, and it has never permitted the trucks at its locations. This policy has angered some truck drivers.
In 1982, founder Arch "Beaver" Aplin was a partner in the opening of a store in Clute, Texas, the first to bear the name "Buc-ee's". He formed the name Buc-ee's by combining his childhood nickname and the name of his Labrador Retriever, Buck; as well as the appeal of Ipana toothpaste's animated mascot, Bucky the beaver. Aplin was born in Southeast Texas. His father was born in Harrisonburg, northeast of Alexandria, Louisiana, where Arch's grandparents still lived, as of 2019. Buc-ee's eventually expanded and opened its first travel center in Luling in 2003.
In 2012, Buc-ee's opened its largest travel center in New Braunfels, Texas, on Interstate 35. The New Braunfels location was the largest convenience store in the world at 68,000 square feet (6,300 m2), but on June 26, 2023, the Sevierville, Tennessee, Buc-ee's opened, becoming the world's largest convenience store at 74,707 square feet (6,940.5 m2). The Sevierville store was surpassed in size by a new store in Luling, Texas, at 75,000 square feet (6967.7 m2) on June 10, 2024, replacing the original Luling travel center, which was 35,000 square feet (3251.6 m2). The New Braunfels location had the 2012 "Best Restroom in America" as named by Cintas.
After significant expansion in the Greater Houston area and central Texas, the first Buc-ee's in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex opened in Terrell, Texas, on June 22, 2015. The travel center is three miles west of the Shops at Terrell, a former Tanger Outlets center, on Interstate 20. In September 2015, it was announced that at least part of Buc-ee's corporate operations would move into office space in Pearland Town Center. The "partial headquarters" would house the company's legal and human resources departments. The space was ready by early 2016.
The second Buc-ee's in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the 32nd location in Texas, opened on May 23, 2016. The store is in northern Fort Worth, across from Texas Motor Speedway.The third DFW location opened in Denton, Texas, on October 29, 2018. Buc-ee's established another store in Melissa, Texas, on February 5, 2018. The store is located off New Davis Road and U.S. Highway 75 and it opened on April 29, 2019.
The company began expanding outside of Texas in 2018 with the opening of a location in Baldwin County, Alabama, and has since opened stores in Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, and Arizona, with new locations planned for North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Oklahoma.
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