In movies and in songs and in books, Route 66 has been done. Shove off, you might think, and save me the clichés about kicks and bucket lists, about the history of the roads before it and the Joads ...

A drive down Route 66 is a popular bucket list item for people who want to explore America, but consider making a pit stop ...

Road enthusiasts, history buffs, and nostalgia fans are gearing up for the 100-year anniversary of historic Route 66 in 2026. About 345 miles of the historic 2,400-mile highway pass through Southern ...

CARTHAGE, Mo., June 17 (Reuters) - Route 66 hasn't been a real highway for almost three decades. Sign up here. The last section of the fabled U.S. route from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, was ...

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 ...

There’s a stretch of the old Route 66 where the map looks almost empty but for a faded line bending through California’s Mojave Desert. Along this stretch, a single dot marks Goffs, a former rail stop ...

Route 66 had had a major impact on American history in the 20th century. Long before the interstate highways were a twinkle in Dwight Eisenhower's eye, it connected many previously isolated Western ...

Celebrated in song and story, Route 66 – the “Main Street of America” – was decommissioned as a highway in 1985. But it is still a favourite journey for those searching not only for interesting sights ...

"Old motels never die. They just rent rooms by the hour." That's what was going through my mind as Art Director Craig Korn, my partner for the second stretch of HOT ROD'S Route 66 tour, tried to ...

Route 66 is gone, buried under the asphalt of more than 3,000 kilometres of interstate. These days, you can drive from Chicago to Los Angeles in less than a day and a half if you stop only for gas and ...