Home | Categories | National Parks | Hotels | Site Map | Photographs | QTVR | Whats New? | More... ARIZONA Index | Introduction | Photographs | QTVR | Driving Distances | Map | Weather | Hotels Route 66 Sites in Arizona NPS - Landscapes Canyon de Chelly Chiricahua Grand Canyon Lake Mead Organ Pipe Petrified Forest Saguaro Sunset Crater NPS - Historic Sites Casa Grande Ruins Coronado Montezuma Castle Pipe Spring Tonto Tumacacori Tuzigoot Walnut Canyon Wupatki Other Places Apache Trail Ironwood Forest NM Meteor Crater Route 66 Sedona Sonoran Desert NM Tonto NF Vermilion Cliffs NM More Locations... Agua Fria Alamo Lake Bartlett Reservoir Beaver Dam Mnts Bill Williams River Copper Creek Coronado Trail Coyote Buttes Fish Creek Granite Mountain Kaiser Spring Kofa NWR Lees Ferry Lost Dutchman Mount Lemmon Patagonia Lake Pearce Ferry Red Rock Roosevelt Lake Sabino Canyon San Carlos Lake Superstition Mountains Sycamore Canyon Tombstone Tonto Creek Tonto Natural Bridge West Clear Creek Arizona Site Map Site Search Enter your search terms this site all the web Submit search form Route 66, between Chicago and Los Angeles, was named in 1926 but largely replaced by the more efficient interstate system during the 60s and 70s. In the 40 years of its existence the road became the subject of countless songs, films, books and legends yet today there are few traces remaining; large cross-country sections became part of the interstates and other stretches fell into disuse. Despite this abandonment, Route 66 is still the main street of many towns, and several long parts of the original road do survive, such as through the Mojave Desert in California and a 65 mile section in New Mexico, just north of I-40 and through such small towns as Laguna, Grants and Prewitt. However, the best preserved section in the Southwest is in Arizona, between Topock on the Colorado River and Ash Fork east of Seligman - about 165 miles in total and including the main street of Kingman, the largest town on the route. Further east, one further short stretch of original road runs through the center of Williams, another historic old town. Route 66: Topock to Kingman From Topock on the California border, the now little-used Route 66 crosses flat desert with many and varied cacti, then across the Black Mountains via Sitgreaves Pass, close to many old mines and several ghost towns. There is a gradual descent past more Mojave desert scenery to Kingman, a historic railway town. Route 66: Kingman to Williams Beyond Kingman, Route 66 crosses varied landscapes of sand, forest and scrubland for over 100 miles, through several small peaceful towns en route to I-40 near Ash Fork. Further east, the original road has largely disappeared under the interstate, but it re-emerges briefly to form the main street of Williams. Sitgreaves Pass Main street, Kingman Photographs - 13 views of Route 66 Back to Top Arizona | California | Colorado | Nevada | New Mexico | Texas | Utah | Wyoming | Slot Canyons | Travelogue | SOUTHWEST

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