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Drive along Route 66, USA
50 Things to do before you die
U.S. Highway 66, popularly known as "Route 66" is significant as the first all-weather highway linking Chicago to Los Angeles. What sets this segment of national highway apart from its contemporaries is that it remains the shortest, year-round route between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California by more than 200 miles, which made Route 66 popular among thousands of motorists who drove west in subsequent decades
The often romanticized highway represents an outstanding example of the transition from dirt road to super-highway. Not only does Route 66 underscore the importance of the automobile as a technological achievement, but, perhaps equally important to the American people, it symbolized unprecedented freedom and mobility for every citizen who could own and operate a car. In response, the federal government pledged to link small town USA with all of the metropolitan capitals.
- Current maps do not include old Route 66.
- Route 66 is 2448 miles long. (about 4000 km)
- Route 66 was commissioned in 1926, picking up as many as possible bits and pieces of existing road.
- Route 66 crosses 8 states and 3 time zones.
- Route 66 starts in Chicago, and ends in Los Angeles, California (Santa Monica).
- Some people think driving it in the opposite direction is historically wrong, but it's mainly a lot harder as all available documentation goes the "right" way.
- In 1926 only 800 miles of Route 66 were paved. Only in 1937 Route 66 got paved end-to-end.
- You can only drive parts of Route 66 these days... it has been replaced by the interstate highways I-55, I-44, I-40, I-15 and I-10, but still a surprisingly high amount of old road is waiting to be found by the more adventurous traveler.
- Route 66 is also know as "The Mother Road", "The Main Street of America" and "The Will Rogers Highway".
- During all of its life, Route 66 continued to evolve, leaving many abandoned stretches of concrete, still waiting to be found by the more adventurous traveler.
- Route 66 was also the title of a TV series playing from 1960 till 1964
- Cyrus Stevens Avery from Tulsa Oklahoma can be called the father of Route 66
- In 1985 Route 66 was officially decommissioned, but for daily use it was replaced far earlier by the Interstates.
if you ever plan to motor west..
travel my way..
take the highway that's the best..
get your kicks on route 66..
it winds from Chicago to LA...
more then two thousand miles all the way..
"get your kicks on route 66"...
now you go through St Looey...Joplin, Missouri...
and Oklahoma city looks mighty pretty...
now you’ll see Amarillo...
Gallup, New Mexico...
Flagstaff, Arizona..
don't forget Winona...
Kingman, Barstow, san Bernardino...
now won't you get hip to this timely tip...
when you make that California trip
"get your kicks on route 66"
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