Traveling Route 66? One of the first stops to make is in Springfield, Illinois. With so much to see, do, and taste, there are ...

Hard to believe now, but when my family moved to Kingman in 1956, there was a dirt road to Phoenix (actually Highway 93). There was a nefarious reason for this ...

Even after nearly a century, Route 66 still turns a cross-country ... Originally home to Tower Station’s gas pumps on one side and the U-Drop Inn Café on the other, the building has been ...

When I saw signs for Dwight, Ill., proud of its place as a stopover on Route 66, I veered right. At the Texaco filling station, with its red gas pumps redolent of Edward Hopper’s roadside ...

Mike McMains asked the three dozen passengers on his Route 66 trolley tour. “The song.” “Motorcycles.” “Gas stations.” “Cars.” “The Beat Generation.” “Efrem Zimbalist Jr ...