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CA_POPPY
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Jul 02, 2014

Route 66 trip?

A short feature on the NBC Nightly News tonight was about people traveling on old Route 66. I looked it up on the NBC website and it made me sentimental for the the old days. We drove it back in the early 1960's and it surely was more interesting than driving I-10. I wondered if anybody here had made that trip recently. Starting from California, how far does Route 66 go? Are only sections of it open? Thanks for any info.
  • There is places that the hwy is a walking path.
    One place is across the Mississippi River north of St. Louis. Great long walk across the bridge.
    When in Winslow, there was a Flatbed Ford right in front of the mural
    We have hit many short sections
    We are thinking of doing Hwy from Kingman east toward Springfield, Indiana.
  • In Winslow, AZ, there's a "Standin' on the Corner" mural painted on the side of an old building (homage to The Eagles) facing an intersection on 66 downtown. Funky shop on another corner with all things 66 to purchase.

    At Petrified Forest/Painted Desert NP, there is a small monument to the Mother Road.

    Shamrock, TX also has a nice stretch of od 66 downtown with restored gas station and some almost crumbled original buildings.

    I saw that piece on NBC last night, too. Nice. I remember that teepee motel from my childhood family road trips. Made me wish we were headed west again this year.
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    RoyB
    Explorer II
    Last time I was on RT66 was in AZ around the Flagstaff-Kingman-Williams area...

    Everyone should get a photo of them standing next to one of the RT66 road signs. I got mine around here somewhere hehe...

    Roy ken
  • As you travel along I 40 through AZ, NM, and TX and OK, you can get off at each town and take the business route through town. That will be 66 a lot of the time.
  • Longest continuous section is from Kingman, AZ to Seligman, AZ.......about 87 miles.

    Not much to see.........cause it's desert.
    Great Buffalo Burger at the Roadkill Restaurant in Seligman (well they claim it was buffalo)

  • Only sections of 66 still exist but you can take it from LA to Chicago.

    In a lot of places "Old 66" is the frontage road along an interstate; in other places it was replaced by an interstate.