The shield. Route 66’s most enduring symbol. If you can summon up an image of a Route 66 sign without Google, the shield is the most likely symbol you’ll see. But despite the iconic combination of the highway shield and the number “66,” the shield doesn’t belong to Route 66 alone. It’s the symbol of …
Route 66 is a legendary road that makes one heck of a road trip even if you only follow it part of the way. What’s left of the old route passes through the patchwork streets of big cities and follows the main thoroughfares through small towns. It also goes through a lot of rural, uninhabited …
When it comes to legendary roads, few hold the mythos of Route 66, and certainly no other American highway matches it in sheer nostalgia. But Route 66 was not the first national highway to cross multiple state. It’s not the longest. It’s not even fully cross-country, starting instead in the Midwest before rolling out to …
Route 66 crosses the entire state of Illinois, from the banks of Lake Michigan in the northeast to the border with St. Louis, Missouri in the southwest. Along the way, it passes through the cities of Chicago, Bloomington and Springfield, as well as many smaller towns. If you’re making the drive along Route 66 across …
The longest highway in the United States is U.S. Route 20 (US 20), which, like the country’s longest interstate, crosses the upper portion of the country. Also like the longest interstate in the U.S. (I-90), Route 20 begins in Boston and actually follows the path of I-90 through the east, winding and curving around and …
