Map of Route 66
The creation of this 2,448-mile “super highway” in 1926 did not follow a traditionally linear course. Instead its diagonal path linked hundreds of rural communities across eight states and became the principal east-west artery making it the Main Street of America. Like the country that the road traversed, history was made and imprints were left by the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the war years, and the road trips of the fifties and sixties.
Route 66, Seligman, Arizona 1953
I-40
When I-40 was completed in 1984, travelers would take I-40 to get to their destinations instead of taking route 66