Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Located in the Texas Panhandle on the historic Route 66, Amarillo, whose name means yellow in Spanish, is often called the "Yellow ...

Stretching over 2,400 miles across the United States, from Chicago to California, Route 66 delivers plenty of neon nostalgia and kitschy Americana. Retro diners, forgotten towns, and giant roadside ...

Plus, it sits along the longest preserved stretch of the Mother Road.

The most iconic highway in the country reaches its centennial this year – and travelers are ready to celebrate with an epic road trip. Also called The Mother Road, Route 66 stretches almost 2,500 ...

Our Route 66 road trip ended at the beginning, at East Jackson Boulevard and South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, where a brown sign hanging 12 feet high on a light post tells people they’ve reached the ...

Drive just east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the city's grid gives way to the rugged slopes of the Tijeras Canyon. One of the small communities you pass through when heading out of Downtown ...

What most people think of when they think of Route 66 is old cars and kitsch. Perhaps that’s always how the past looks in the middle distance, when it’s too old to seem recent but too young to seem ...

Route 66 travels 2,448 miles across eight states linking Chicago to Los Angeles. Roughly 1,372 of those miles cut through Native American Tribes’ land. According to the American Indian Alaska Native ...

The Pacific Coast Highway may have the views and Route 50 the sheer span, but it’s Route 66, one of the U.S.’s first national highways, that has captured the imagination of writers, musicians, and ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — If you’ve ever planned to motor west and take the highway that’s the best, this might be the time: Route 66 turns 100 this year. The Mother Road, as author John Steinbeck ...