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U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) also known as the Will Rogers Highway, was a major United States Numbered Highway in the state of Arizona from November 11, 1926, to June 26, 1985. US 66 covered a total of 385.20 miles (619.92 km) through Arizona.
Wagon routes between Flagstaff and Winslow were surveyed in the 1880s. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad choose to build the railroad along it. The railway passed to the north of the modern alignment of the National Old Trails which would in 1926 become US 66. US 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west during the Dust Bowl of the ...
I-40 westbound heading toward Flagstaff. By 1927, the routing of US 66 through Arizona had been laid out, but none of it had been paved yet. [7] By 1935, nearly the entire route had been paved, with the lone exceptions being a short stretch northeast of Valentine and a stretch between Peach Springs and Seligman. [8]
Route 66 enters the state in Lupton (on the border of New Mexico) and continues for 250 miles across the northern half of Arizona—passing through Holbrook, Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams, Seligman ...
The following year, Miller left the state. Cundiff remarried, and in 1934 opened the Two Guns Texaco service station along a new alignment of Route 66. Behind it, they relocated the zoo (which closed prior to 1950). [9] In 1938, a new bridge across Canyon Diablo was built, and Route 66 began following Interstate 40 at the Two Guns location. [9]
Forest Service Road 34 south of Winslow: BIA Route 15 near Leupp: 1970: current Loop 101: 60.98: ... US 66 near Flagstaff: Walnut Canyon National Monument: 1957
U.S. Route 66 originally passed through the city. A contract to build Interstate 40 as a bypass north of Winslow was awarded at the end of 1977. I-40 replaced U.S. Route 66 in Arizona in its entirety. Winslow achieved international fame in 1972 in the Eagles / Jackson Browne song "Take It Easy" that has the line "standin' on a corner in Winslow ...
The Meteor City Trading Post, named in honor of the nearby Meteor or Barringer Crater, is the first of three Route 66-inspired roadside attractions located only a few miles apart along a 30-mile stretch west on Interstate 40 from Winslow to Flagstaff: Meteor City; the ghost town of Two Guns and the ruins of the Twin Arrows Trading Post / Diner ...