{"id":227453,"date":"2026-03-19T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:14:10","slug":"costco-opens-1st-standalone-gas-station-in-oc-this-summer-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227453\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Opens 1st Standalone Gas Station In OC This Summer: What To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MISSION VIEJO, CA \u2014 As prices at the pump climb toward uncomfortable highs, Orange County residents received some welcomed news this week: A new, but familiar, option opening up in June. <\/p>\n<p>Costco will be opening its first standalone gas station in the country in Orange County. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s expected to open by late June in Mission Viejo, according to city officials. <\/p>\n<p>The location will be more than 17,000 square-feet with 40 fueling positions and will only be available to members. <\/p>\n<p>The station will operate from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Saturday and be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cstoredive.com\/news\/costcos-first-standalone-gas-station-to-open-by-late-june\/815004\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">supervised by Costco employees<\/a>, according to C-Store Dive.<\/p>\n<p>The new station will compete with nearby Circle K, Chevron and BP. <\/p>\n<p>MORE ORANGE COUNTY NEWS: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MISSION VIEJO, CA \u2014 As prices at the pump climb toward uncomfortable highs, Orange County residents received some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-227453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}