Springfield will soon have a new monument – just in time for the Route 66 Centennial Kickoff Celebration April 30-May 3. A proposal to accept $267,000 in State of Missouri appro ...

The annual Big BAM (Bike Across Missouri) ride will start in Joplin in September and follow Route 66 on the centennial of the Mother Road. The week‑long, fully supported ride will be Sept. 4–10 and ...

A Missouri State professor details the little-known connection as the next African-American Heritage Trail marker is set to ...

Rare photographs from the Thelma Blumberg Collection at the State Historical Society of Missouri show the Route 66 TV series ...

A formal dedication ceremony will take place at Birthplace Plaza at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and St. Louis Street - marking the precise time and location where the telegram proposing the ...

A new tribute to Route 66 opens Thursday with an exhibit called “Through The Windshield, Missouri’s Route 66.” ...

Illinois is marking the official start of Route 66 Centennial celebrations by awarding nearly $4 million in grants to support ...

There’s nothing like the beckoning open road, especially when there’s nostalgia involved. And there’s no more iconic US highway than Route 66. After all, it officially opened in 1926 as a 2,400-mile ...

February 5 and 6 at the Lebanon-Laclede County Library you can see the Route 66 100 Years exhibit. It celebrates both the centennial of the route and the 250th birthday of the United States.

Route 66 was officially designated in 1926, linking Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, across eight states. Originally built from existing roads, it became the backbone of westward travel ...

Route 66 is the mother of all roads. Scratch that. She’s the Mother Road, as the incomparable John Steinbeck coined it in his ...