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Former U.s.a. Highway betwixt Chicago and Los Angeles

U.South. Road 66
Volition Rogers Memorial Highway

Road information
Length	2,448 mi (iii,940 km)
Existed	November 26, 1926 (1926-11-26) ^[1]–June 26, 1985 (1985-06-26) ^[two]
Tourist routes	Historic Road 66
Major intersections (in 1947)^[3]
W end	US 101 Alt. in Santa Monica, Cal.
Major intersections	Usa vi / The states 99 / US 101 in Los Angeles, Cal. US 91 from San Bernardino to Barstow, Cal. US 93 / US 466 in Kingman, Ariz. U.s. 89 from Ash Fork to Flagstaff, Ariz. US 666 from Sanders, Ariz. to Gallup, N.M. United states of america threescore / Usa 87 / US 287 in Amarillo, Tex. Us 77 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Us 166 in Baxter Springs, Ks. US 71 from Joplin to Carthage, Mo. U.s.a. 40 / US 50 / The states 61 in St. Louis, Mo.
East end	US 41 / U.s.a. 54 in Chicago, Sick.

Location
States	California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois

Highway system
U.s.a. Numbered Highway Organisation List Special Divided

U.S. Road 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (United states 66 or Road 66), also known as the Volition Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was ane of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November xi, 1926, with road signs erected the following twelvemonth.^[4] The highway, which became one of the nearly 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 Canton, California, covering a full of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).^[v] It was recognized in pop civilisation past both the hit vocal "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the Route 66 television receiver series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. In John Steinbeck's classic American novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the road "Highway 66" symbolized escape and loss.

US 66 served as a primary road for those who migrated due west, peculiarly during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and the route supported the economies of the communities through which it passed. People doing business organization along the road became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later on fought to keep the highway live in the confront of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.

Us 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, but was officially removed from the United states of america Highway System in 1985^[2] after it had been replaced in its entirety by segments of the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been communally designated a National Scenic Byway by the name "Historic Route 66", returning the proper name to some maps.^[6] ^[vii] Several states have adopted significant bypassed sections of the one-time US 66 into their state road networks as State Road 66. The corridor is too being redeveloped into U.S. Cycle Route 66, a office of the The states Bike Route System that was developed in the 2010s.

History [edit]

Lengths (1926 alignment)
	mi^[8]	km
California	314	505
Arizona	401	645
New United mexican states	487	784
Texas	186	299
Oklahoma	432	695
Kansas	13	21
Missouri	317	510
Illinois	301	484
Total	2,448	3,940

Before the U.Due south. Highway Arrangement [edit]

A remnant of an original state correct-of-way marker serves every bit a reminder of the early on days of the route's construction. This was function of the 1927 construction of US 66.

In 1857, Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a naval officer in the service of the U.South. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, was ordered by the War Department to build a authorities-funded railroad vehicle road along the 35th Parallel. His secondary orders were to exam the feasibility of the use of camels as pack animals in the southwestern desert. This route became part of United states of america 66.^[9]

Parts of the original Route 66 from 1913, prior to its official naming and commissioning, tin still exist seen north of the Cajon Pass. The paved route becomes a dirt road, south of Cajon, which was too the original Route 66.^[x]

Before a nationwide network of numbered highways was adopted by the states, what were named auto trails were marked by private organizations. The road that would get Us 66 was covered by three highways. The Alone Star Route passed through St. Louis on its way from Chicago to Cameron, Louisiana, though United states of america 66 would take a shorter route through Bloomington rather than Peoria. The transcontinental National Old Trails Road led via St. Louis to Los Angeles, only was not followed until New Mexico; instead, US 66 used one of the main routes of the Ozark Trails system,^[11] which ended at the National Old Trails Road simply south of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Again, a shorter route was taken, here following the Postal Highway between Oklahoma City and Amarillo. Finally, the National Old Trails Road became the residue of the route to Los Angeles.^[12]

While legislation for public highways first appeared in 1916, with revisions in 1921, until Congress enacted an fifty-fifty more comprehensive version of the human action in 1925, the government had not executed its plan for national highway construction. The original inspiration for a roadway between Chicago and Los Angeles was planned by entrepreneurs Cyrus Avery of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and John Woodruff of Springfield, Missouri. The pair lobbied the American Clan of Land Highway Officials (AASHO) for the cosmos of a route following the 1925 plans.^[xiii]

From the offset, public route planners intended United states of america 66 to connect the primary streets of rural and urban communities along its course for the nearly practical of reasons: most small towns had no prior admission to a major national thoroughfare.

Birthplace and rising of United states 66 [edit]

The route sign from 1926 to 1948

Modern 'historic' signage in Chicago

The numerical designation 66 was assigned to the Chicago-to-Los Angeles route on April 30, 1926,^[thirteen] in Springfield, Missouri. A placard in Park Central Foursquare was defended to the metropolis by the Route 66 Association of Missouri,^[14] and traces of the "Mother Road" are all the same visible in downtown Springfield forth Kearney Street, Glenstone Artery, College, and St. Louis streets and on Route 266 to Halltown, Missouri.^[xv]

Championed by Avery when the first talks nigh a national highway arrangement began, The states 66 was commencement signed into law in 1927 as one of the original U.South. Highways, although it was not completely paved until 1938. Avery was adamant that the highway accept a round number and had proposed number 60 to identify information technology. A controversy erupted over the number threescore, largely from delegates from Kentucky who wanted a Virginia Beach–Los Angeles highway to be US threescore and Us 62 betwixt Chicago and Springfield, Missouri.^[sixteen] ^{[ self-published source? ]} Arguments and counterarguments continued throughout February, including a proposal to split the proposed route through Kentucky into Route 60 N (to Chicago) and Route 60 South (to Newport News).^[17] The final determination was to have U.s.a. 60 run between Virginia Embankment, Virginia, and Springfield, Missouri, and the Chicago–50.A. route be U.s. 62.^[18] Avery and highway engineer John Page settled on "66", which was unassigned, despite the fact that in its entirety, US 66 was north of United states of america 60.^[19]

The land of Missouri released its 1926 land highway map with the highway labeled every bit US sixty.^[20]

Afterward the new federal highway system was officially created, Cyrus Avery called for the establishment of the U.South. Highway 66 Association to promote the consummate paving of the highway from cease to terminate and to promote travel down the highway. In 1927, in Tulsa, the association was officially established with John T. Woodruff of Springfield, Missouri, elected the get-go president. In 1928, the association made its first attempt at publicity, the "Bunion Derby", a footrace from Los Angeles to New York City, of which the path from Los Angeles to Chicago would be on United states of america 66.^[21] The publicity worked: several dignitaries, including Will Rogers, greeted the runners at certain points on the route. The race ended in Madison Foursquare Garden, where the $25,000 kickoff prize (equal to $376,793 in 2020) was awarded to Andy Hartley Payne, a Cherokee runner from Oklahoma. The U.South. Highway 66 Association also placed its first advertisement in the July 16, 1932, effect of the Sat Evening Post. The advertising invited Americans to take United states of america 66 to the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. A U.S. Highway 66 Association office in Oklahoma received hundreds of requests for information after the ad was published.^[22] The association went on to serve as a phonation for businesses forth the highway until it disbanded in 1976.

Traffic grew on the highway considering of the geography through which it passed. Much of the highway was essentially flat and this made the highway a popular truck route. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s saw many farming families, mainly from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Texas, heading west for agricultural jobs in California. United states of america 66 became the main road of travel for these people, often derogatorily called "Okies" or "Arkies". During the Depression, information technology gave some relief to communities located on the highway. The route passed through numerous pocket-size towns and, with the growing traffic on the highway, helped create the ascent of mom-and-popular businesses, such as service stations, restaurants, and motor courts, all readily accessible to passing motorists.^[23]

Much of the early on highway, like all the other early on highways, was gravel or graded clay. Due to the efforts of the U.South. Highway 66 Association, Us 66 became the get-go highway to be completely paved in 1938. Several places were dangerous: more than one part of the highway was nicknamed "Bloody 66" and gradually work was done to realign these segments to remove dangerous curves. Yet, one department through the Black Mountains outside Oatman, Arizona, was fraught with hairpin turns and was the steepest along the entire route, so much and so that some early on travelers, too frightened at the prospect of driving such a potentially dangerous road, hired locals to navigate the winding course. The section remained equally US 66 until 1953 and is still open to traffic today as the Oatman Highway. Despite such hazards in some areas, US 66 continued to exist a popular route.^[23]

Notable buildings include the fine art deco–styled U-Drop Inn, constructed in 1936 in Shamrock, in Wheeler County east of Amarillo, Texas, listed on the National Annals of Celebrated Places.^[24] ^[25] A restored Magnolia fuel station is also located in Shamrock likewise every bit Vega, in Oldham County, west of Amarillo.^[26]

During World State of war 2, more than migration west occurred considering of war-related industries in California. US 66, already popular and fully paved, became 1 of the main routes and also served for moving military equipment. Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri was located near the highway, which was locally upgraded quickly to a divided highway to help with armed forces traffic. When Richard Feynman was working on the Manhattan Projection at Los Alamos, he used to travel about 100 miles (160 km) to visit his wife, who was dying of tuberculosis, in a sanatorium located on US 66 in Albuquerque.^[27]

In the 1950s, US 66 became the primary highway for vacationers heading to Los Angeles. The road passed through the Painted Desert and well-nigh the K Canyon. Meteor Crater in Arizona was another popular stop. This sharp increase in tourism in turn gave rising to a burgeoning merchandise in all style of roadside attractions, including teepee-shaped motels, frozen custard stands, Indian curio shops, and reptile farms. Meramec Caverns near St. Louis, began ad on barns, billing itself as the "Jesse James hideout". The Big Texan advertised a free 72-ounce (two.0 kg) steak dinner to anyone who could swallow the entire meal in one hour. It also marked the nativity of the fast-nutrient industry: Red's Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri, site of the first bulldoze-through restaurant, and the first McDonald's in San Bernardino, California. Changes like these to the landscape further cemented 66'south reputation as a near-perfect microcosm of the culture of America, at present linked past the automobile.^[23]

Changes in routing [edit]

Many sections of United states 66 underwent major realignments.

In 1930, between the Illinois cities of Springfield and East St. Louis, US 66 was shifted farther eastward to what is now roughly Interstate 55 (I-55). The original alignment followed the electric current Illinois Road iv (IL 4).^[28]

From downtown St. Louis to Gray Top, Missouri, U.s.a. 66 originally went downward Market Street and Manchester Road, which is largely Road 100. In 1932, this route was inverse and the original alignment was never viewed as anything more than temporary. The planned route was down Watson Road, which is now Route 366 simply Watson Route had not been completed nonetheless.

In Oklahoma, from west of El Reno to Bridgeport, US 66 turned north to Calumet and then due west to Geary, so southwest beyond the Due south Canadian River over a suspension toll span into Bridgeport. In 1933, a straighter cutting-off route was completed from w of El Reno to one mile (1.6 km) south of Bridgeport, crossing over a 38-span steel pony truss bridge over the South Canadian River, bypassing Calumet and Geary by several miles.

From westward of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, to northward of Los Lunas, New Mexico, the route originally turned north from electric current I-40 along much of what is now Us 84 to near Las Vegas, New United mexican states, followed (roughly) I-25—then the decertified US 85 through Santa Atomic number 26 and Albuquerque to Los Lunas and then turned northwest forth the present New Mexico Land Road six (NM six) alignment to a indicate virtually Laguna. In 1937, a straight-line route was completed from west of Santa Rosa through Moriarty and east–west through Albuquerque and west to Laguna. This newer routing saved travelers equally much as four hours of travel through New Mexico. According to legend, the rerouting was done at the behest of Democratic Governor Arthur T. Hannett to punish the Republican Santa Fe Ring, which had long dominated New Mexico out of Santa Fe.^[29]

In 1940, the commencement freeway in Los Angeles was incorporated into United states of america 66; this was the Arroyo Seco Parkway, later known as the Pasadena Freeway; at present again known as Approach Seco Parkway.^[28]

In 1953, the Oatman Highway through the Blackness Mountains was completely bypassed by a new route betwixt Kingman, Arizona, and Needles, California;^[28] by the 1960s, Oatman, Arizona, was well-nigh abased equally a ghost town.

Since the 1950s, as Interstates were existence constructed, sections of Us 66 not only saw the traffic bleed to them, simply ofttimes the route number itself was moved to the faster means of travel. In some cases, such as to the east of St. Louis, this was done as before long as the Interstate was finished to the next get out. The displacement of US 66 signage to the new freeways, combined with restrictions in the 1965 Highway Adornment Act that often denied merchants on the former route access to signage on the freeway, became factors in the closure of many established US 66 businesses as travelers could no longer easily find or accomplish them.^[thirty]

In 1936, US 66 was extended from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica to end at US 101 Alt., today the intersection of Olympic and Lincoln Boulevards. Even though there is a plaque dedicating U.s. 66 equally the Will Rogers Highway placed at the intersection of Body of water Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, the highway never terminated at that place.

US 66 was rerouted around several larger cities via bypass or beltline routes to permit travelers to avoid city traffic congestion. Some of those cities included Springfield, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; Rolla, Missouri; Springfield, Missouri; Joplin, Missouri; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The route was likewise a foundation for many concatenation stores back in the 1920s, sprouting upwards next to information technology to increment business and sales.

Turn down [edit]

Abandoned, burn down-damaged Whiting Brothers gas station. All along the road, preservation efforts are under way to preserve original buildings such every bit this.

An abased early U.s.a. 66 alignment in central Illinois, 2006

The ghost boondocks of Two Guns, Arizona, once featured a zoo, gift shop, restaurant, campground, gas station, and "death cave".

The beginning of the decline for U.s. 66 came in 1956 with the signing of the Interstate Highway Act by President Dwight D. Eisenhower who was influenced by his experiences in 1919 as a young Army officer crossing the state in a truck convoy (following the road of the Lincoln Highway), and his appreciation of the autobahn network every bit a necessary component of a national defence force system.^[31]

During its nearly threescore-year existence, Us 66 was under constant alter. As highway technology became more sophisticated, engineers constantly sought more directly routes betwixt cities and towns. Increased traffic led to a number of major and pocket-size realignments of United states of america 66 through the years, particularly in the years immediately post-obit World War Two when Illinois began widening US 66 to four lanes through virtually the entire country from Chicago to the Mississippi River only east of St. Louis, and included bypasses around virtually all of the towns. Past the early to mid-1950s, Missouri likewise upgraded its sections of US 66 to four lanes complete with bypasses. Most of the newer four-lane 66 paving in both states was upgraded to freeway status in later years.

One of the remnants of United states of america 66 is the highway now known as Veterans Parkway, e and south of Normal, Illinois, and Bloomington, Illinois. The 2 sweeping curves on the southeast and southwest of the cities originally were intended to easily handle traffic at speeds upwardly to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), as part of an effort to make U.s.a. 66 an Autobahn equivalent for armed forces ship.

In 1953, the kickoff major bypassing of United states of america 66 occurred in Oklahoma with the opening of the Turner Turnpike between Tulsa and Oklahoma Metropolis. The new 88-mile (142 km) toll road paralleled US 66 for its unabridged length and bypassed each of the towns along Us 66. The Turner Turnpike was joined in 1957 by the new Volition Rogers Turnpike, which connected Tulsa with the Oklahoma-Missouri border west of Joplin, Missouri, once again paralleling Us 66 and bypassing the towns in northeastern Oklahoma in addition to its entire stretch through Kansas. Both Oklahoma turnpikes were soon designated as I-44, along with the Usa 66 bypass at Tulsa that connected the city with both turnpikes.

In some cases, such every bit many areas in Illinois, the new Interstate Highway not only paralleled the quondam US 66, it actually used much of the same roadway. A typical approach was to build 1 new set of lanes, then move ane management of traffic to it, while retaining the original road for traffic flowing in the opposite direction. Then a 2d set up of lanes for traffic flowing in the other direction would be constructed, finally followed by abandoning the other old set of lanes or converting them into a frontage route.

The aforementioned scenario was used in western Oklahoma when The states 66 was initially upgraded to a iv-lane highway such as from Sayre through Erick to the Texas border at Texola in 1957 and 1958 where the old paving was retained for westbound traffic and a new parallel lane built for eastbound traffic (much of this section was entirely bypassed past I-forty in 1975), and on two other sections; from Canute to Elk City in 1959 and Hydro to Weatherford in 1960, both of which were upgraded with the construction of a new westbound lane in 1966 to bring the highway up to total interstate standards and demoting the old United states of america 66 paving to frontage road status. In the initial process of constructing I-40 beyond western Oklahoma, the state likewise included projects to upgrade the through routes in El Reno, Weatherford, Clinton, Canute, Elk City, Sayre, Erick, and Texola to four-lane highways not only to provide seamless transitions from the rural sections of I-xl from both ends of town but also to provide piece of cake admission to those cities in later years later on the I-twoscore bypasses were completed.

In New Mexico, as in well-nigh other states, rural sections of I-xl were to be constructed offset with bypasses around cities to come up later. Even so, some business organisation and civic leaders in cities along The states 66 were completely opposed to bypassing fearing loss of business and tax revenues. In 1963, the New Mexico Legislature enacted legislation that banned the construction of interstate bypasses around cities by local asking. This legislation was short-lived, yet, due to pressures from Washington and threat of loss of federal highway funds so it was rescinded past 1965. In 1964, Tucumcari and San Jon became the get-go cities in New Mexico to piece of work out an agreement with country and federal officials in determining the locations of their I-40 bypasses as shut to their concern areas as possible in order to permit easy access for highway travelers to their localities. Other cities soon roughshod in line including Santa Rosa, Moriarty, Grants and Gallup although information technology wasn't until well into the 1970s that near of those cities would exist bypassed by I-xl.

Past the late 1960s, virtually of the rural sections of United states 66 had been replaced by I-40 across New Mexico with the most notable exception being the 40-mile (64 km) strip from the Texas edge at Glenrio due west through San Jon to Tucumcari, which was becoming increasingly treacherous due to heavier and heavier traffic on the narrow two-lane highway. During 1968 and 1969, this department of US 66 was frequently referred to by locals and travelers as "Slaughter Lane" due to numerous injury and fatal accidents on this stretch. Local and expanse business concern and civic leaders and news media called upon state and federal highway officials to go I-40 built through the area; yet, disputes over proposed highway routing in the vicinity of San Jon held up construction plans for several years as federal officials proposed that I-40 run some 5 to six miles (eight to x km) north of that urban center while local and state officials insisted on following a proposed road that touched the northern city limits of San Jon. In Nov 1969, a truce was reached when federal highway officials agreed to build the I-40 route just outside the city, therefore providing local businesses dependent on highway traffic easy access to and from the freeway via the northward–south highway that crossed old US 66 in San Jon. I-40 was completed from Glenrio to the east side of San Jon in 1976 and extended west to Tucumcari in 1981, including the bypasses around both cities.

Originally, highway officials planned for the concluding section of US 66 to be bypassed by interstates in Texas, simply as was the case in many places, lawsuits held up construction of the new interstates. The United states of america Highway 66 Association had go a vox for the people who feared the loss of their businesses. Since the interstates only provided access via ramps at interchanges, travelers could non pull directly off a highway into a business organisation. At first, plans were laid out to allow mainly national chains to be placed in interstate medians. Such lawsuits effectively prevented this on all simply toll roads. Some towns in Missouri threatened to sue the land if the Us 66 designation was removed from the road, though lawsuits never materialized. Several businesses were well known to be on US 66, and fear of losing the number resulted in the country of Missouri officially requesting the designation "Interstate 66" for the St. Louis to Oklahoma City department of the route, but information technology was denied. In 1984, Arizona also saw its final stretch of highway decommissioned with the completion of I-40 just n of Williams, Arizona. Finally, with decertification of the highway by the American Clan of State Highway and Transportation Officials the following twelvemonth, US 66 officially ceased to exist.

With the decommissioning of U.s. 66, no unmarried interstate route was designated to supplant it, with the route being covered past Interstate 55 from Chicago to St. Louis, Interstate 44 from St. Louis to Oklahoma Urban center, Interstate xl from Oklahoma City to Barstow; Interstate fifteen from Barstow to San Bernardino, and a combination of California State Route 66, I-210 and State Route 2 (SR 2) or I-ten from San Bernardino across the Los Angeles metropolitan area to Santa Monica.

Later on decertification [edit]

When the highway was decommissioned, sections of the road were disposed of in diverse ways. Within many cities, the route became a "business loop" for the interstate. Some sections became country roads, local roads, or private drives, or were abandoned completely. Although it is no longer possible to drive US 66 uninterrupted all the way from Chicago to Los Angeles, much of the original route and alternate alignments are however drivable with careful planning. Some stretches are quite well preserved, including one between Springfield, Missouri, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Some sections of The states 66 still retain their historic nine-pes-broad (2.seven yard) "sidewalk highway" form,^[32] never having been resurfaced to make them into full-width highways. These onetime sections have a single, paved lane, concrete curbs to mark the edge of the lane, and gravel shoulders for passing.

Some states have kept the 66 designation for parts of the highway, albeit every bit state roads. In Missouri, Routes 366, 266, and 66 are all original sections of the highway. Land Highway 66 (SH-66) in Oklahoma remains every bit the alternating "free" route nearly its turnpikes. "Historic Road 66" runs for a meaning distance in and about Flagstaff, Arizona. Farther westward, a long segment of United states 66 in Arizona runs significantly n of I-40, and much of it is designated as State Route 66 (SR 66). This runs from Seligman to Kingman, Arizona, via Peach Springs. A surface street stretch between San Bernardino and La Verne (known as Foothill Boulevard) to the east of Los Angeles retains its number as SR 66. Several county roads and urban center streets at diverse places forth the former road have also retained the "66" number.

Revival [edit]

The start Route 66 associations were founded in Arizona in 1987 and Missouri in 1989 (incorporated in 1990).^[33] ^[34] Other groups in the other United states 66 states soon followed. In 1990, the land of Missouri declared US 66 in that state a "Country Historic Route". The first "Historic Road 66" marker in Missouri was erected on Kearney Street at Glenstone Avenue in Springfield, Missouri (now replaced—the original sign has been placed at Route 66 State Park near Eureka).^[35] Other celebrated markers now line—at times sporadically—the unabridged ii,400-mile (3,900 km) length of road.^[23] In many communities, local groups have painted or stenciled the "66" and U.S. Route shield or outline directly onto the road surface, along with the country's name.^[23] This is common in areas where conventional signage for "Historic Route 66" is a target of repeated theft by souvenir hunters.^[36]

Various sections of the road itself have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Arroyo Seco Parkway in the Los Angeles Area and United states 66 in New Mexico have been made into National Scenic Byways. Williams Historic Business District and Urban Route 66, Williams were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and 1989, respectively. In 2005, the State of Missouri made the road a state scenic byway from Illinois to Kansas. In the cities of Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, and San Bernardino in California, there are US 66 signs erected forth Foothill Boulevard, and too on Huntington Drive in the metropolis of Arcadia. "Historic Route 66" signs may exist institute along the old route on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, San Dimas, La Verne, and forth Foothill Boulevard in Claremont, California. The metropolis of Glendora, California, renamed Alosta Artery, its department of US 66, by calling it "Route 66". Flagstaff, Arizona, renamed all only a few blocks of Santa Fe Avenue as "Route 66". Until 2017, when it was moved to the nearby Millennium Park, the annual June Chicago Dejection Festival was held each yr in Grant Park and included a "Route 66 Roadhouse" stage on Columbus Avenue, a few yards north of old US 66/Jackson Boulevard (both closed to traffic for the festival), and a cake west of the route's onetime eastern terminus at US 41 Lake Shore Bulldoze.^[37] ^[38] Since 2001, Springfield, Illinois has annually held its "International Road 66 Mother Road Festival" in its downtown district surrounding the Former State Capitol.^[39]

Many preservation groups have tried to save and even landmark the former motels and neon signs along the road in some states.^[xl]

In 1999, President Bill Clinton signed a National Route 66 Preservation Beak that provided for $10 one thousand thousand in matching fund grants for preserving and restoring the historic features along the route.^[41]

In 2008, the World Monuments Fund added U.s.a. 66 to the World Monuments Watch as sites along the route such as gas stations, motels, cafés, trading posts and drive-in motion-picture show theaters are threatened by development in urban areas and by abandonment and decay in rural areas.^[42] The National Park Service developed a Route 66 Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary describing over one hundred private historic sites.^[43] As the popularity and mythical stature of US 66 has connected to abound, demands accept begun to mountain to improve signage, return US 66 to route atlases and revive its status as a continuous routing.

The U.S. Route 66 Recommissioning Initiative is a group that seeks to recertify US 66 as a US Highway along a combination of historic and modernistic alignments.^[44] The group's redesignation proposal does not enjoy universal support, equally requirements that the route meet modern US Highway organization specifications could force upgrades that compromise its historic integrity or require United states 66 signage be moved to Interstate highways for some portions of the route.

In 2018, the AASHTO designated the start sections of U.S. Wheel Route 66, part of the United States Bicycle Route System, in Kansas and Missouri.^[45]

National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. has a section on U.s.a. 66 in its "America on the Move" exhibition. In the exhibit is a portion of pavement of the route taken from Bridgeport, Oklahoma and a restored motorcar and truck of the type that would have been driven on the route in the 1930s. As well on display is a "Hamons Courtroom" neon sign that hung at a gas station and tourist cabins near Hydro, Oklahoma, a "CABINS" neon sign that pointed to Ring'south Rest tourist cabins in Muirkirk, Maryland, as well as several mail service cards a traveler sent back to his time to come married woman while touring the route.^[46]

Museums and monuments in Oklahoma [edit]

Elk City, Oklahoma has the National Route 66 & Transportation Museum, which encompasses all 8 states through which the Female parent Route ran.^[47] Clinton has the Oklahoma Route 66 Museum, designed to brandish the iconic ideas, images, and myths of the Female parent Road.^[48] A memorial museum to the Route's namesake, Volition Rogers, is located in Claremore, while his birthplace ranch is maintained in Oologah.^[49] In Sapulpa, the Heart of Route 66 Machine Museum features a 66-human foot-high (twenty m) replica gas pump, the world'south tallest.^[50]

Tulsa has multiple sites, starting with the Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza, located at the east end of the celebrated 11th Street Span over which the route passed, and which includes a giant sculpture weighing 20,000 pounds (nine,100 kg)^[51] called "E Meets Westward". The sculpture depicts the Avery family riding west in a Model T Ford meeting an eastbound horse-fatigued wagon.^[52] In 2020, Avery Plaza Southwest opened, at the w finish of the span, which features a "neon park" with replicas of the neon signs from Tulsa-expanse Road 66 motels of the era, including the Tulsa Machine Courtroom, the Oil Majuscule Motel, and the famous bucking-bronco sign of the Will Rogers Motor Court.^[53] ^[54] Futurity plans for that site likewise include a Route 66 Museum.^[55] Also, Tulsa has installed "Road 66 Rising", a 70-by-30-foot (21.3 past ix.i thousand) sculpture on the route's former eastern approach to town at East Admiral Place and Mingo Road.^[56]

On Tulsa'due south Southwest Boulevard, betwixt W. 23rd and W. 24th Streets there is a granite mark dedicated to Route 66 equally the Will Rogers Highway which features an image of namesake Will Rogers together with information on the route from Michael Wallis, author of Road 66: The Mother Road;^[57] and, at Howard Park just past W. 25th Street, three Indiana limestone pillars are defended to Route 66 through Tulsa, with Route 66 #1 devoted to Transportation, Route 66 #two devoted to Tulsa Industry and Native American Heritage, and Route 66 #3 devoted to Fine art Deco Architecture and American Culture.^[58] At 3770 Southwest Blvd. is the Road 66 Historical Village, which includes a tourism information middle modeled after a 1920s-1930s gas station, and other period-appropriate artifacts such as the Frisco 4500 steam locomotive with railroad train cars.^[59] Elsewhere, Tulsa has constructed twenty-nine historical markers scattered along the 26-mile route of the highway through Tulsa, containing tourist-oriented stories, historical photos, and a map showing the location of historical sites and the other markers.^[sixty] The markers are by and large along the highway'due south mail service-1932 alignment downward 11th Street, with some along the road'south 1926 path downwardly Admiral Identify.^[lx]

Route description [edit]

Over the years, U.s. 66 received numerous nicknames. Correct after US 66 was commissioned, it was known as "The Great Diagonal Way" considering the Chicago-to-Oklahoma City stretch ran northeast to southwest. Later, US 66 was advertised by the U.Due south. Highway 66 Association equally "The Main Street of America". The championship had also been claimed by supporters of Us 40, simply the US 66 group was more successful. In the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath, the highway is called "The Mother Route", its prevailing title today.^[61] Lastly, U.s.a. 66 was unofficially named "The Will Rogers Highway" past the U.S. Highway 66 Clan in 1952, although a sign forth the road with that name appeared in the John Ford flick, The Grapes of Wrath, which was released in 1940, twelve years before the association gave the road that name. A plaque dedicating the highway to Volition Rogers is still located in Santa Monica, California. At that place are more than plaques like this; i can be found in Galena, Kansas. It was originally located on the Kansas-Missouri country line, only moved to the Howard Litch Memorial Park in 2001.^[62]

California [edit]

The sign of US 66's western terminus at the Santa Monica Pier

U.s.a. 66 had its western terminus in California, and covered 315 miles (507 km) in the land.^[63] The terminus was located at the Pacific Coast Highway, then U.s.a. 101. Alternate and now SR 1, in Santa Monica, California. The highway ran through major cities such as Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino. San Bernardino also contains ane of the ii surviving Wigwam Motels along Us 66. The highway had major intersections with U.s.a. 101 in Hollywood, I-5 in Los Angeles, I-15, and I-40 in Barstow, and US 95 in Needles. Information technology too ran concurrent to I-xl at California's very eastern end.^[64]

Arizona [edit]

In Arizona, the highway originally covered 401 miles (645 km) in the state. Along much of the way, US 66 paralleled I-40. It entered across the Topock Gorge, passing through Oatman along the way to Kingman.^[65] Between Kingman and Seligman, the road is nevertheless signed every bit SR 66. Notably, merely between Seligman and Flagstaff, Williams was the last point on U.s.a. 66 to be bypassed by an Interstate. The road too passed through the once-incorporated community of Winona. Holbrook contains one of the ii surviving Wigwam Motels on the route.^[66]

New Mexico [edit]

US 66 covered 380 miles (610 km) in the state and passed through many Indian reservations in the western half of New Mexico.^[67] East of those reservations, the highway passed through Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Vegas. Every bit in Arizona, in New Mexico, U.South. 66 paralleled I-40.^[68]

Texas [edit]

US 66 covered 178 miles (286 km) in the Texas Panhandle, travelling in an east–west line between Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas and Texola, Oklahoma.^[69] Adrian, in the western Panhandle, was notable as the midpoint of the route. East of there, the highway passed through Amarillo (famous for the Cadillac Ranch), Conway, Groom, and Shamrock.

Oklahoma and Kansas [edit]

The highway covered 376 miles (605 km)^[70] in Oklahoma. Today, information technology is marked by I-40 west of Oklahoma Metropolis, and SH-66 eastward of there. After inbound at Texola, The states 66 passed through Sayre, Elk City, and Clinton before inbound Oklahoma City.^[71] Beyond Oklahoma City, the highway passed through Edmond on its manner to Tulsa. By there, U.s. 66 passed through Miami, North Miami, Commerce, and Quapaw before entering Kansas where it covered only 13.2 miles (21.2 km).^[72] Merely iii towns are located on the route in Kansas: Galena, Riverton and Baxter Springs.

Missouri [edit]

Usa 66 covered 292 miles (470 km) in Missouri. Upon entering from Galena, Kansas, the highway passed through Joplin. From there, it passed through Carthage, Springfield, where Ruby's Behemothic Hamburg, the world'south first drive-thru stands, Waynesville, Devils Elbow, Lebanon and Rolla earlier passing through St. Louis.^[73]

Illinois [edit]

The states 66 covered 301 miles (484 km) in Illinois. It entered Illinois in East St. Louis afterward crossing the Mississippi River. Nearly there, it passed by Cahokia Mounds, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The highway then passed through Hamel, Springfield, passing by the Illinois State Capitol, Bloomington-Normal, Pontiac, and Gardner.^[74] It then entered the Chicago expanse. After passing through the suburbs, U.South. 66 entered Chicago itself, where it terminated at Lake Shore Drive.^[75]

Special routes [edit]

Several alternate alignments of US 66 occurred considering of traffic bug. Business routes (BUS), bypass routes (BYP), alternate routes (ALT), and "optional routes" (OPT) (an early on designation for alternate routes) came into being.

U.S. Road 66 Alternate: Bolingbrook–Gardner, Illinois
U.S. Route 66 Business organisation: Towanda–Bloomington, Illinois
U.Southward. Route 66 Business: Lincoln, Illinois
U.S. Route 66 Business: Springfield, Illinois
U.S. Route 66 Business organisation: Mitchell–East St. Louis, Illinois
U.S. Route 66 Business: St. Louis–Sunset Hills, Missouri
U.Due south. Road 66 Optional: Venice, Illinois–St. Louis, Missouri
U.Southward. Route 66 Bypass: Mitchell, Illinois–Sunset Hills, Missouri
U.Due south. Route 66 Business: Springfield, Missouri
U.South. Route 66 Bypass: Springfield, Missouri
U.S. Road 66 Alternate Business: Springfield, Missouri
U.Southward. Route 66 Alternating: Carthage, Missouri
U.South. Route 66 Business: Carterville–Webb City, Missouri
U.S. Route 66 Alternate: Webb City–Joplin, Missouri
U.S. Route 66 Concern: Joplin, Missouri
U.S. Route 66 Bypass: Joplin, Missouri
U.Southward. Road 66 Concern: Tulsa, Oklahoma
U.S. Road 66 Business: Oklahoma Urban center, Oklahoma
U.S. Route 66 Business: Clinton, Oklahoma
U.S. Route 66 Business: Amarillo, Texas
U.S. Route 66 Business organisation: San Bernardino, California
U.South. Route 66 Alternating: Pasadena–Los Angeles, California

In popular civilization [edit]

US 66 has been a fixture in popular culture. American popular-culture artists publicized U.s.a. 66 and the feel, through song and television. Bobby Troup wrote "(Become Your Kicks on) Road 66", and the highway lent its proper noun to the Route 66 Tv serial in the 1960s,^[76] which itself had a popular theme song written and arranged by Nelson Riddle. The Grapes of Wrath (novel) and The Grapes of Wrath (picture show) each depict the Joad family unit, the members of which take been evicted from their small farm in Oklahoma and travel to California on US 66.^[77]

66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert'due south tedious north invasion, from the twisting winds that howl upward out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the country and steal what niggling richness is there. From all of these the people are in flying, and they come into 66 from the tributary side roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads. 66 is the mother road, the road of flight.^[78]

The 2006 animated moving picture Cars had the working title Route 66, and described the decline of the fictional Radiator Springs, near a ghost town in one case its mother road, US 66, was bypassed by Interstate 40.^[79]

England cricket team captain Joe Root uses the number 66, a play on words of the famous road.^[80]

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