Mile 197 Westbound Mantua, OH Website All the Ohio Turnpike machines cost $1, take only paper dollars (no coins), and dispense their own shiny zinc pennies. The dispenser is visible through the plexiglass case so you can confirm whether they are still loading new coins.
Machine 5 (2017) $1 each with pre-loaded Zinc pennies. Designs are:
1) Bicentennial Bridge Ohio
2) Ohio's Flower, Scarlet Carnation
3) God Bless America
4) Portage Lakes
Retired Machines:
Retired 1 PennyCollector Machine retired 2008: 1) Ohio Central Railroad Sugarcreek, Ohio, 2) Home of Flight 1904, Dayton, OH, 3) Soapbox Derby Akron, OH, 4) Camp Perry.
Retired 2 from Ohio Turnpike @ Mahohning Valley New Speingfield, Ohio, which was torn down: 1) Ulysses S Grant, 2) Orville Wright, 3) Ohio Truckers, 4) Dresden Ohio.
Retired 3: 1) Aviation's Beginnings Dayton, OH, 2) Ohio Turnpike, 3) Ohio truckers, 4) Ohio State Bird, Cardinal.
Retired 4: (2013): 1) Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, 2) Cleveland Browns, 3) Garfield Birthplace Home Moreland Hills Ohio, 4) Neil Armstrong Wapakoneta Ohio.
Service areas on the Ohio turnpike are only accessible in one direction. You have to travel the turnpike twice to get to all the machines 12 total. 6 each way.
1/17: Machine 5 (2017) installed here.
3/16/2023 - machine working again, rolling short on copper. ~RTS~ |