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With a nod to Route 66’s vintage charm and the region’s rich geological and cultural history, the Petrified Forest Museum ...
A new Route 66-inspired store and visitor hub will open in Holbrook on July 11.Petrified Forest National Park’s official ...
While this Route 66 attraction in Arizona flies under most passersby's radar, it offers an amazing chance to see an impact ...
Photo by Linda Kor Master sake brewer Atsuo Sakurai (right) is featured in the upcoming documentary Route 66: The Main Street of America. Though the film crew traveled to Holbrook to spotlight his ...
The Gemini Giant looks out over attendees during a Gemini Giant Homecoming at Wilmington's South Island Park. (Tiffany Blanchette) April 30, 2025 at 2:00 pm CDT The Landing Pad, a U.S. Route 66 ...
In the old Route 66 town of Holbrook, Arizona, close to the Navajo reservation and far from anywhere else, a 41-year-old man named Atsuo Sakurai is making the best sake produced outside Japan.
But Route 66 would not go quietly. "I got tired of people talking about the road in the past tense," says Wallis, who, in 1990, wrote Route 66: The Mother Road, a seminal biography of the highway.
For more space-themed discoveries, journey to Flagstaff — the largest town on Arizona’s Route 66. Be sure to visit the Lowell Observatory — where Pluto was discovered in 1930.
It’s first stop on my road-trip loop (from Phoenix) of Arizona’s section of Route 66 – the longest intact stretch of this once-unbroken coast-to-coast highway between Chicago and Santa Monica.
Once part of a chain of seven locations, the Wigwam Motels in Holbrook, Arizona, and San Bernardino, California, are two of only three still standing today - and both sit along Route 66.