There’s nothing like the beckoning open road, especially when there’s nostalgia involved. And there’s no more iconic US highway than Route 66. After all, it officially opened in 1926 as a 2,400-mile ...

What I discovered travelling Missouri’s lesser-trodden stretch of Route 66 - With the ‘Mother Road’ celebrating its 100th ...

CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Historic Oak Street Bridge, an icon on Route 66, is in need of repair and could fail an inspection and be closed in the next year or so — possibly during the centennial of the ...

"Route 66 is the mother road in this country, it has a tremendous history," said Confluence Partnership Director Laura Cohen. "Many people still relate to this whole idea of the highway from Chicago ...

SAPULPA - The No. 18 Rock Creek Bridge has failed a state inspection, causing the Route 66 attraction to be closed to traffic. "They found some of the trusses and the uprights that were damaged. They ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Kan. — A portion of historic Route 66 gets a facelift just in time for tourism season. The historic Rainbow Bridge just north of Baxter Springs has been given a fresh coat of paint.

Jack Hung, from Eureka, casts his line into the Meramec River near the old Route 66 Bridge on June 23, 2016, at Route 66 State Park in southwest St. Louis County. Unless funding is secured, the bridge ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "Route 66 authority and veteran writer and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of America's most famous ...

Most ghost towns exist at the far end of a dusty, lonely road where a tumbleweed is more likely to pass through than an automobile. This is what makes Cuervo, New Mexico, different. Unlike other ...

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (KSNW) — A historic Kansas bridge has gotten a makeover ahead of the upcoming Route 66 Centennial. Our sister station, KSNF/KODE in Joplin, reports that the Cherokee County ...