Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Route 66 stretches across eight states, including Utah (Getty Images/iStockphoto) And with 2026 being the route's 100th birthday, ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Mother Road is back in the spotlight this year as the country marks America 250 and ...

The Mother Road. America’s Highway. The Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. Route 66 goes by many names, but no matter how travelers refer to it, there’s one constant everyone seems to ...

It's something that should be on every American's bucket list: driving Route 66. And there's no better time than now to get out and explore the country's motoring heritage and history. However, the ...

Our Route 66 road trip ended at the beginning, at East Jackson Boulevard and South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, where a brown sign hanging 12 feet high on a light post tells people they’ve reached the ...

Get your kicks at Kingman, Arizona, known as the Heart of Historic Route 66. Read up on the history of the Mother Road at the Arizona Route 66 Museum and make the drive to the ghost town of Oatman.

With the automobile revolution in full swing by the 1920s, the American Association of State Highway Officials proposed a brand-new system of major interstate highways that would connect the United ...

Historic Route 66 celebrates its 100 th anniversary in 2026. While the so-called “Mother Road” defined classic Americana–tourist kitsch, neon signs, roadside motels–most of its mid-century fame has ...

Somewhere along California’s Inland Empire, we saw it: layers of American history, compressed and twisted into a kind of alchemy we would come to recognize throughout our Route 66 trip. Mountains rose ...