You've been looking for a way to spend your spare time. Why not restore a historic Route 66 motel like the Wagon Wheel in Cuba, Mo.? It will only take two years, your entire savings, and your every ...

With its name writ large in red cursive letters and lit by a neon glow, The Palamar Motel once beckoned countless travelers driving Downstate on The Mother Road. Now the “T” and half the “P” have ...

Driving Route 66 is the definition of bucket list material, drawing people from all over the world each year to this legendary weathered, worn, and character-filled stretch of concrete. The adventure ...

Route 66 is about to turn 100, yet the road that once carried Dust Bowl refugees and postwar vacationers still shapes how the ...

MIAMI, Okla. — The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away, and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los ...

The nonprofit National Historic Route 66 Federation in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., estimates at least 3,000 motels along the route are in various states of repair or disrepair. Route 66, immortalized in ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — 2026 marks the 100th birthday of the Mother Road, and festivities in the Land of Enchantment are already ...

PONTIAC, Ill. — With its name writ in large red cursive letters and lit by a neon glow, The Palamar Motel once beckoned countless travelers driving on Route 66, which stretched from Los Angeles to ...

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Car lots, mechanic shops, and cafes line a forlorn stretch of Route 66 in central Amarillo, but vibrant art galleries, ...