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‘Mother Road’ celebrating centennial next year

Mother Road’ celebrating centennial next year; Route 66 stretches about 100 miles through Southwestern Illinois.
The West End Service Station at 620 St. Louis St. in Edwardsville, a former gas station turned into a Route 66 visitor center. The 100th anniversary of Route 66, also known as the "Mother Road" will ...
Rising through Arizona’s Black Mountains, Sitgreaves Pass pushed early Route 66 drivers to their limits, with sheer drops, blind turns, and no margin for error on America’s most iconic road.
The campground’s name pays tribute to the National Old Trails Highway, a project in the early 1900s that Route 66 was largely ...
Drivers cruising down Colorado Boulevard are finding themselves greeted by bold new murals that celebrate Route 66, a ...
This friendly community in the heart of the Texas Panhandle provides a window into the region's heritage, along with ...
A meeting of area leaders and Texas transportation specialists Thursday afternoon included a flyover of a multimillion-dollar ...
Lyman Lake State Park near St. Johns is the kind of place that makes you simultaneously grateful you discovered it and slightly annoyed that nobody mentioned it sooner, like finding out your neighbor ...
When the universe decided to hide a spectacular lake in the high country of northeastern Arizona, it apparently forgot to tell most people about it, and Lyman Lake State Park near St. Johns has been ...
IT IS THE 99TH BIRTHDAY OF ROUTE 66. THE MOTHER ROAD ORIGINALLY RAN FROM CHICAGO TO CALIFORNIA, PASSED RIGHT THROUGH NEW ...
Route 66 turns 100 years old in 2026 presenting the country an opportunity to authentically rewrite the narrative of the Mother Road, so-named by John Steinbeck in his 1939 novel, “The Grapes of Wrath ...