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Overview

The BP on Rockfish Gap Turnpike is the kind of place you measure your mornings against. The pumps come on at four, and by the time the sky over the Blue Ridge is doing anything worth looking at, someone has already filled a tank, bought a coffee, and pointed a truck west toward Afton. It sits on Route 250 near the Old Trail edge of Crozet, the last easy fuel stop before the road starts climbing toward the gap, and it keeps the long, plain hours that a station in that position ought to keep.

Fuel and the early hours

This is a full gas-and-diesel station, which matters more than it sounds on a road that funnels into the mountains. Diesel is called out specifically here, so the pickups, the delivery vans, and anyone hauling a trailer up toward Waynesboro can top off before the grade. The weekday schedule runs from 4:00 AM to midnight, with a slightly gentler 5:00 AM start on Saturday and Sunday. That is a twenty-hour day, most days, which covers the commuters heading east toward Charlottesville and the ones coming back down the mountain after dark.

The station accepts all major payment cards, and it is set up for BP's own systems: earnify pay for fuel and earnify rewards, if you have the app and want to earn on every fill. There is also a detail worth knowing for anyone who does their grocery run in the area — this location honors Harris Teeter Fuel Points, so the discounts you bank on your grocery receipts can come off the price at this pump.

The store side

Beyond the canopy there is a store, the usual companion to a station like this: the place you duck into for a cold drink, a bag of something salty, a phone charger you forgot you needed. There is a restroom on site, which is not a small thing on a stretch of highway where the next reliable stop is a few miles in either direction. The station is mobile enabled, so paying from the pump is straightforward.

None of this is glamorous, and it does not pretend to be. What it offers is reliability at the hours when reliability is scarce — a lit forecourt at 4:30 in the morning, a working restroom, a hot coffee, and enough diesel to get you over the ridge.

Getting there, and what is nearby

You will find it at 6115 Rockfish Gap Turnpike, Crozet, VA 22932, right on Route 250 as it runs west out of town. The phone number is (434) 823-4802. For directions or current details, the station's page lives on BP's own locator at map.bp.com.

If this pump is busy or closed for the night, Crozet has another BP closer to downtown, at 1248 Crozet Avenue, and there is a 24-hour BP out on Rockfish Valley Highway in Afton for the truly late runs over the mountain. But for anyone living or working on the western end of Crozet — the Old Trail side, the Route 250 corridor — this is the natural stop: early open, diesel on hand, Fuel Points honored, and a store waiting behind the pumps.

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