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Ghost Towns & Shakes: 3 Arizona Pit Stops on U.S. Route 66 Not To Skip

Driving the Historic U.S. Route 66 is a bucket-list road trip experience packed with famous landmarks — but here are three ...
Chicago Tribune

Route 66: Visiting a desert ghost town

AMBOY, Calif. — Water is the key to the future of Roy’s Motel & Cafe, the lone survivor in a Route 66 town that, at its peak, boasted 200 residents, three gas stations, three motels, two cafes, a post ...
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The Little Town on Route 66 That Became a Ghost Town

There’s a stretch of the old Route 66 where the map looks almost empty but for a faded line bending through California’s ...
Los Angeles Times

Amboy, population 0 — a Mojave Desert ghost town and Americana icon fights to survive

AMBOY, Calif. — It’s a Friday afternoon in mid-May and a Czech biker is eating an ice cream cone at the counter of a gas station along a desolate stretch of the Mojave Desert. Outside, his entourage ...
AOL

The Best Route 66 Spots in Missouri, Kansas & Oklahoma, From Abandoned Relics to Nostalgic Cafes

There’s nothing like the beckoning open road, especially when there’s nostalgia involved. And there’s no more iconic US highway than Route 66. After all, it officially opened in 1926 as a 2,400-mile ...
Daily Herald

Get Out There: Route 66: A supposedly American thing that mostly foreigners do

FILE - This Jan. 13, 2017, file photo, shows the Route 66 Casino outside of Albuquerque, N.M., along the historic Route 66. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File) Cruising along Route 66 — the iconic ...
Washington Times

I drove all 2,448 miles of Route 66. What I wish I had known before starting

Last September, I crossed a dream trip off my bucket list. While I’d driven many sections of Route 66 over the years, I had never tackled the entire 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica in one ...