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Route 66 begins ... to Amarillo, Texas, where the spirit of the Wild West is alive and well. Known for its cowboy culture and ...
With its 100th birthday on the horizon, Route 66 will soon be in the spotlight again. Now, a new book chronicling the history ...
The American Giants Museum in Atlanta, Illinois isn’t just another roadside attraction—it’s a colossal trip back to when gas ...
The Springfield 66 Project is inviting local artists to help celebrate 100 years of Route 66 with their centennial sculpture ...
Route 66 extends nearly 180 miles across the Texas Panhandle. About 20 miles east of the border, the town of Adrian advertises itself as the route’s midpoint, equidistant to Chicago and Los Angeles.
Continuing east of Jericho, the Route 66 town of McLean boasts a museum, opened in 1991 in a former brassiere factory, dedicated to barbed wire — the devil’s rope, as it’s often called.
The 2025 Texas Route 66 Festival closed out its 10-day celebration Saturday, June 14 with a lively finale packed with live performances, local vendors, classic cars, and a tribute to the highway ...
From the Art Deco styling of the 1936 Tower Station and U-Drop Inn in Shamrock, to the eerie ghost town of Glenrio—the only Route 66 community with a state line running through the middle of it ...
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – The Cactus Cove Inn & Suites is set to host a special event Friday to reveal its new public mural during the ongoing Texas Route 66 Festival celebration. The event ...
Part of the Texas Route 66 Festival, which is going full force behind the scenes all around Amarillo, will be the "Bloomin’ Bull," a massive sculpture/mural art installation being finished up at ...
Glenrio, on the border of Texas and New Mexico, served as a popular pit stop on the old Route 66 in the 1950s and ’60s and was abandoned soon after 1975, when the newly built Interstate 40 ...
From fiberglass giants to a man-made forest, art installations turn Route 66 into an unforgettable, open-air gallery stretching across 2,400 miles of Americana.