A road trip today can feel like an industrial affair: You travel 80 miles per hour on six-lane highways, where brightly lit exits deposit you at 24-hour fuel stops and chain motels. Yet not that long ...

Route 66 in the United States – the legendary highway stretching around 3,940 kilometres from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California – is turning 100 this year, marking a milestone for what ...

Artist Jerry McClanahan documents and paints every detail of the "mythical road" he missed as a child, creating guidebooks to preserve its memory. Mechanic John Hargrove, who grew up on Route 66, ...

Working in concert, the American Association of State Highway Officials and the Bureau of Public Roads adopted a uniform highway numbering system and corresponding map on November 11, 1926. The ...

Route 66 helped build the High Desert, transforming isolated towns into connected cities, and linking Victorville and Barstow to Los Angeles and the rest of the country. Dubbed the Mother Road, Route ...

Historic U.S. Route 66 is America's longest small town — a 2,400-mile neighborhood that one historian calls the ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, was erased from maps for decades. America’s first Black incorporated town has now finally reclaimed its rightful, historic place on Route 66.

In the 1930s, more than 200,000 people traveled Route 66 to escape drought, debt and hardship. A century later, travelers follow the same highway for strikingly different reasons: nostalgia, history ...

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