This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). A century on, Route 66 still embodies the spirit of American adventure. It's an epic journey spanning 2,448 miles, winding through ...

A century on, Route 66 still embodies the spirit of American adventure. It’s an epic journey spanning 2,448 miles, winding through three time zones and eight states. More than any other highway, it ...

Route 66 is the quintessential American road trip — a 2,500-mile odyssey across eight states from Chicago to Santa Monica. And with 2026 being the route's 100th birthday, this year is the perfect time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Route 66 stretches across eight states, including Utah (Getty Images/iStockphoto) And with 2026 being the route's 100th birthday, ...

I’ve left the Ford Mustang’s fuel cap at the gas station. We haven’t even reached Route 66, as I pull over for the first ...

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 ...

Route 66 isn’t a road. Not really, anymore. Scraps of it still exist in all eight states it ran through, but most of it has been built over, replaced by the Interstate Highway System. On the eve of ...

LITCHFIELD, Ill. (KTVI) – From Chicago to Santa Monica, California, drivers traveling the 2,448-mile Route 66 can sometimes find a location that takes them back in time – a road trip through history.

From the trade roads of ancient Egypt and Africa, on through the world’s pre-automotive toll roads, history is rife with examples of towns that came alive when an arterial thoroughfare—later the ...