Route 66: EZ66 Guide for Travelers: Jerry McClanahan: 9780970995148: Amazon.com. McJerry66. For readers of the EZ 66 Guide for Travelers, I have provided free online updates to help keep your Route 66 experience as current as possible. As you might imagine, Route 66 is constantly undergoing changes, some good, others not so. Businesses open and close, roads are re-routed and street names change.
Please check back here just before your trip for the latest info. Entries are dated as to when they were added. If you wish to purchase your own copy of the EZ Guide, please go here. EZ 66 readers have been helpful in keeping me keep the guidebook updated in between my own road trips, so if you discover something that needs to be addressed while on your journey, please let me know! [Print All] MO page-9 on Apr 01, 2014 at 3:57:29 pm [Print] The St Clair Museum has burned down.
Mo page-14 on Apr 01, 2014 at 3:56:38 pm [Print] The rock arch, etc that honored the "Trail of Tears" on SIDE TRIP 2 is reportedly in bad shape and harder to find (its an entrance to private property anyway). Oh boy! Driving Route 66 - Your one-stop resource for planning the road trip of a lifetime... Self-Drive Historic Route 66, USA Holidays, Cruises & Tours from American Sky.
Day 1 Chicago Welcome to Chicago – home to some of America’s tallest buildings, a rich culture and, more importantly, the starting point for Route 66! This vibrant city is a fantastic start to your trip, with something for everyone. Check out ‘The Ledge Experience’ at the Skydeck where you can step out onto a full-enclosed glass ledge from the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower. Standard: Holiday Inn Mart Plaza Superior: Hotel Lincoln Chicago Day 2 Chicago – Springfield (220 Miles) Begin your day with breakfast at Lou Mitchell’s in the heart of the Loop in Chicago.
Standard: Holiday Inn Express Superior: Crowne Plaza Springfield Day 3 Springfield – St Louis (100 Miles) You’ll travel through the heartland of America today, with the opportunity to drive a piece of Route 66 dating back to the 1930s. Standard: Crowne Plaza Downtown St Louis Superior: Crowne Plaza Downtown St Louis Day 4 St Louis – Springfield, Missouri (218 Miles) Standard: Best Western Route 66 Rail Heaven Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Santa Fe Day 9. Route 66 - USA Self Drive Tour - 1st Class Holidays America. Welcome to Route66 Tours. Tour the Famous Route 66 - Route 66 Drive. ROUTE 66. The romance of Route 66 continues to captivate people around the world. Running between Chicago and Los Angeles, “over two thousand miles all the way” in the words of the popular R&B anthem, this legendary old road passes through the heart of the United States on a diagonal trip that takes in some of the country’s most archetypal roadside scenes.
If you’re looking for great displays of neon signs, rusty middle-of-nowhere truck stops, or kitschy Americana, do as the song says and “get your kicks on Route 66.” But perhaps the most compelling reason to follow Route 66 is to experience the road’s ingrained time line of contemporary America. Before it was called Route 66, and long before it was even paved in 1926, this corridor was traversed by the National Old Trails Highway, one of the country’s first transcontinental highways. The same commercial know-how and shameless self-promotion has helped the towns along the old route stay alive. Oklahoma Route 66 Museum. Route 66.
This article is an itinerary. Official Route 66 sign Understand[edit] Route 66 is one of the essential icons of America, both for Americans and for people abroad. It represents a multitude of ideas: freedom, migration West, and the loneliness of the American heartland. The highway was first opened in 1926, although much of the route was not paved for decades afterwards. It soon captured America's imagination. John Steinbeck, in his 1940 novel Grapes of Wrath, chronicled the migration along Route 66 of thousands of farmers leaving the Dust Bowl of Kansas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, trying to reach a better land in California. Later representations of the road were a little more upbeat. In the 1980s, the aging highway was decommissioned. Prepare[edit] In The Grapes of Wrath, to prepare for their trip to California, the Joad family packs everything on their farm into a $50 jalopy, and kills their two remaining pigs to make a barrel of salt pork to feed the 14 people on board.
Preserving The Mother Road - National Historic Route 66 Federation. U.S. Route 66. Former US Highway between Chicago and Santa Monica U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year.[3] The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before terminating in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).[4] US 66 was a primary route for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which it passed.
US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, but it was officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985[2] after it was entirely replaced by segments of the Interstate Highway System. History[edit] Before the U.S. The Mother Road: Historic Route 66.