CHICAGO, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rand McNally Publishing, America's leading map company for 170 years and a Founding Sponsor of the Route 66 Centennial, today released The Official Map of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Stretching 2,448 miles from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, Route 66 isn’t just a road, it’s a moving museum of American culture. Commissioned in 1926, the “Main Street of America” ...

Once the dust settled in 1926, Cyrus Avery wrote a polite thank-you letter to the federal highway official who had helped end ...

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 ...

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 ...

Runners are getting their first look at the 2026 Williams Route 66 Marathon finisher medal and course map. The race will serve as the official closing event for Tulsa's yearlong Route 66 Centennial ...