As Route 66 celebrates its centennial anniversary, US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill reveals how to get a taste of the ‘good old days’ along the 2,500-mile route from Chicago to Santa Monica ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Our Route 66 road trip began at the end, at the famed fishing pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. On a breezy Sunday afternoon, the first day of June, a steady stream of ...

Choose Your Route: Planning should start from Chicago (east to west) for a traditional experience. Modern interstates have replaced large sections of Route 66, but the magic lies in the original ...

Ruben returns from traveling Route 66 and visits with the man who brought the Centennial Caravan together.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most iconic highway in the country reaches its centennial this year – and travelers are ready to celebrate with an epic road ...

Working in concert, the American Association of State Highway Officials and the Bureau of Public Roads adopted a uniform ...

There are faster ways to get from Chicago to Los Angeles, but none have the allure or cultural cachet of Route 66. To John Steinbeck, it was the Mother Road that led poor farmers from Dust Bowl ...

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts will reward one lucky grandparent–grandchild duo with $20,000 to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime Route 66 road trip during the highway's 100th anniversary this summer. Wyndham ...

"Sixty-six is the mother road, the road of flight,” wrote John Steinbeck in his 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath. When Route 66 was first established in 1926 as one of the first official US highways, it was ...

A retired headteacher from the Market Rasen area has penned his second book of memories based on significant road trips he ...

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" ...