The Mother Road is back in the spotlight this year as the country marks America 250 and celebrates Route 66’s 100th anniversary. The roughly 2,400-mile route from Chicago to Santa Monica remains the ...

Get your kicks on a Route 66 road trip—a classic 2,448-mile drive from Chicago to Santa Monica, packed with American history Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a ...

As the 100th anniversary of Route 66 approaches in 2026, join Pulitzer Prize winners Jonathan Bullington and E. Jason Wambsgans as they spotlight the stops and people who live along America’s highway.

For nearly six decades, a two-lane road, running 2,448 miles, connected Chicago to Los Angeles. It was the path to Western promise for “Okies” escaping the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, the road under the ...

Friends, motorists, fellow Americans: The road ahead is far from straight. But it will take us through eight states and dozens of small towns, past Muffler Men and Patel motels, beneath the bright ...

Newberry Springs was almost lost to the desert. But as America’s ‘mother road’ turns 100, locals see hope that the boom times could return The tiny desert cafe, caught in a desolate middle between Los ...

Editor’s Note: Editor’s note: Rick Antonson is the author of “Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America’s Main Street.” Antonson and photographer Peter Armstrong made a two-week road trip from Chicago to ...