Thinking of taking Route 66 from Chicago to California.
Would like suggestions on taking the famous Route 66. Leaving Miami to either Chicago or California. Is the trip worth seeing? Roads good? Must see do or stops? Rv parks available?
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Executive wrote:
.... The locals tout Route 66 etc. etc. However, when they built I-40 they left portions of Route 66 as frontage roads. Pretty cool until you're 15 miles down the road and it ENDS!. Nothing irritates more than having to turn around and go back. ....
Sounds like the fault is with the locals or guidebooks that tout those deadend stretches. If they point you to those frontage roads, they should also warn you that they aren't through stretches.
I watched a video with lots of drone footage of the route. In a number of places you can see where they parked the truck at some dead end - a missing bridge, a bridge missing the deck, a bluff, or washed out stretch - and flew the drone over the missing piece.
It's also evident that the route was never static. Even before freeways it changed. La Bajada in New Mexico was used by 66 between 1926 and 1932
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/el_camino_real_de_tierra_adentro/la_bajada_mesa.html
