Route 66 at one hundred
U.S. Route 66 was named on November 11, 1926. These 213 stories are about places along it, state by state from Santa Monica to Chicago.
California
- The Dust Bowl Okies and Fresno's FSA Camps
- The Santa Monica Pier: The End of the American Road
- Figueroa Street Tunnels
- The Figueroa Tunnels: Where Route Sixty-Six Went Underground
- Leaving the Basin: Interstate Ten Eastbound
- Madonna of the Trail: Twelve Statues, One Message
- Rancho Cucamonga
- Rancho Cucamonga: California's Grapevine Capital on Route Sixty-Six
- Fontana
- Oro Grande: Cement Town on the High Mojave
- Route Sixty-Six at the Gate of California
- Barstow Harvey House: Casa del Desierto
- Casa del Desierto: The Harvey House That Saved the Mojave Crossing
- Barstow: Desert Junction of the Mojave
- Daggett: Where the Borax Came Down from the Desert
- Ludlow: The Mojave Water Stop That Struck Gold
- Ludlow: A Ghost Town That Died Twice
- Siberia: The Coldest Name in the Hottest Desert
- Roy's Motel and Café: The Last Stop in the Mojave
- Chambless: One Man's Homestead, One Interstate, One Year
- Essex and the Alphabet Towns: How a Railroad Named a Desert
- Goffs Schoolhouse: Classroom, Canteen, and Desert Archive
- Needles: Gateway at the Edge of California
- Needles: Where the Mojave Meets the Colorado
Arizona
- Oatman and the Wild Burros of Route Sixty-Six
- Oatman, Arizona: A Name from Tragedy, a Town from Gold
- The Road Up from Highway Ninety-Three
- Kingman Depot
- Kingman: Named for the Man Who Mapped the Route
- Kingman
- Hackberry General Store: What Preservation Actually Preserves
- Hualapai War: The History Under the Hackberry Road
- Bob Waldmire: The Cartographer Who Lived on the Road
- Angel Delgadillo and the Resurrection of Route Sixty-Six
- Burma-Shave: The Road's Vernacular Poets
- Angel Delgadillo and the Day Seligman Woke Up
- Seligman, Where Route Sixty-Six Was Saved
- Ash Fork, Arizona
- Route Sixty-Six's Green Book: The Racially Stratified Mother Road
- The Lumber Company That Built a Town
- Williams, Arizona, Last Town on Route 66
- Williams, Arizona: The Last Town the Interstate Left Behind
- Parks, Arizona
- Northern Arizona University
- The Railroad Transforms the Desert
- The Weatherford Hotel and the Road Through Town
- The Babbitt Brothers and Northern Arizona's Trading Empire
- Flagstaff: The High Desert Crossroads
- Two Guns: Murder, Mountain Lions, and Route Sixty-Six
- Hopi Mesas: The Villages That Were Never Conquered
- Winslow: Standing on the Corner Since Eighteen Eighty
- Women of the Route 66 Service Economy
- Standin' on the Corner: Winslow and the Song That Saved a Town
- Sunset, Arizona: The Mormon Settlement That Could Not Hold
- Joseph City: Mormon Pioneers on the Little Colorado
- Holbrook: Too Tough for Women or Churches
- Holbrook: Crossroads on the Painted Desert
- Bracero Workers and the Invisible Road Crew
- The Wigwam Motel: Kitsch as Cultural Document
- Petrified Forest: Two Hundred Ninety-Four Million Years and What Came After
- Houck, Arizona
- Route Sixty-Six, The Mother Road Through Arizona
New Mexico
- El Rancho Hotel and the Route Sixty-Six Era
- El Rancho Hotel, Gallup: Hollywood Came to the Trading Post Capital
- The Long Walk Returns West
- Coal Avenue and the Murals of Downtown
- The Railroad That Built Gallup
- El Rancho Hotel, Gallup
- Anaconda: A Uranium Company Town on Route Sixty-Six
- Anaconda, New Mexico: Uranium Town on Route Sixty-Six
- Grants: From Railroad Camp to Uranium Capital of the World
- Grants: The Town That Rode Three Booms and Two Busts
- Laguna Pueblo: Newest Pueblo, Oldest Visible from the Road
- Laguna Pueblo
- Gallup to Albuquerque: The Pueblo Corridor
- The Railroad Builds a Second City
- Black Albuquerque on Route Sixty-Six
- Central Avenue: The Neon Mile
- Tijeras Canyon: New Mexico's Ancient Gateway
- Tijeras: Where the Canyons Cross Like Scissors
- Moriarty, New Mexico
- Moriarty: Pinto Bean Capital of the World
- Clines Corners: The Stop That Put Itself on the Map
- Santa Rosa, New Mexico, The Blue Hole
- Santa Rosa: The Blue Hole and the City of Natural Lakes
- Newkirk, New Mexico: A Railroad Town Named for Oklahoma
- Montoya: Spanish Land Grant to Route Sixty-Six Ghost
- Montoya: Where the Road Ran Out
- Blue Swallow Motel: A Neon Survivor
- The Green Book on the Mother Road
- Tucumcari: The Town at the Edge of Everything
- Tucumcari Tonight: The Neon Motel Town
- San Jon: The Deep Ditch That Route Sixty-Six Built
- San Jon, New Mexico: Deep Ditch on the High Plains
- Bard, New Mexico: The Town That Moved Three Times
Texas
- Glenrio, Ghost Town on the State Line
- Glenrio: What a Ghost Town Actually Means
- Steinbeck's Road and What They Were Actually Fleeing
- Boise, Texas: The Panhandle Ghost That Never Quite Formed
- Adrian, Texas
- Vega, Texas
- Vega: Last Town Before the New Mexico Line
- Cadillac Ranch
- Route Sixty Six on Sixth Street
- Amarillo and Cadillac Ranch: Art You Can Spray-Paint
- The Dust Bowl: Black Sunday Over Amarillo
- Interstate Forty's Ghost: The Route Sixty-Six Layer
- The Big Texan and the Steak That Started on a Dare
- The Big Texan, Seventy-Two Ounces and an Hour to Prove It
- Big Texan Steak Ranch, The Seventy-Two Ounce Challenge
- Groom, Texas
- Alanreed, Texas
- McLean, Texas
- The U-Drop Inn, The Most Beautiful Gas Station on the Mother Road
- Shamrock, Texas, A Lucky Name on the Edge of the Panhandle
- Shamrock: Route Sixty-Six's Irish Lucky Charm
Oklahoma
- Texola, Oklahoma
- Erick: The Last Oklahoma Mile on Route Sixty-Six
- Erick, Oklahoma: Town That Made Two Music Legends
- Hext, Oklahoma: A Post Office That Lasted Eighteen Months
- Sayre Rock Island Depot
- Sayre: The Route Sixty-Six County Seat
- Sayre, Oklahoma: County Seat on the Mother Road
- Elk City: Where Route Sixty-Six Held a Convention
- Elk City: Where Oil and the Highway Built Each Other
- Canute, Oklahoma
- Clinton, Oklahoma, Where Route Sixty-Six Lives On
- Weatherford: Hometown of a Moon Walker
- Provine Service Station
- Hydro, Oklahoma, Home of Lucille's
- Bridgeport: The Crossing That Cost a Dollar Fifty
- El Reno, Oklahoma, Fort, Land Run, and Hitler's Soldiers
- Yukon: Czech Capital of Oklahoma
- Route Sixty-Six, The Road That Passed Through Here First
- Arcadia's Round Barn
- Luther, Oklahoma
- Warwick, Oklahoma
- Chandler, Oklahoma: Its Own Land Run
- Chandler's Territorial Homes: Rebuilt After the Tornado
- Davenport, Oklahoma
- Rock Café: Built from the Road Itself
- Stroud, Oklahoma: Oil, Rock Café, and the Skyliner
- Depew, Oklahoma
- Bristow, Oklahoma: Woodland Queen of Creek Nation
- Kellyville, Oklahoma
- Sapulpa: Creek Country, Oil, and Oklahoma Pottery
- Cyrus Avery and the Road He Named
- Tulsa: Fire, Oil, Music, and the River
- Catoosa, Oklahoma: The Farthest Inland Port
- The Blue Whale: A Giant Anniversary Gift
- Foyil: Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park
- Ed Galloway's Totem Pole: A Retired Schoolteacher's Life's Work
- Vinita, Oklahoma: Named for a Sculptor
- Afton, Oklahoma: The Buffalo Ranch Town
- Afton: Where the Buffalo Came Back to Route Sixty-Six
- Commerce, Oklahoma: Where the Commerce Comet Learned to Hit
- Miami, Oklahoma: Mining Boom, Toxic Legacy, and the Coleman Theatre
- Mother Road
Missouri
- Joplin: The City That Lead and Zinc Built
- Joplin Union Depot: The Junction That Made a Boomtown Move
- Spencer, Missouri: The Man Who Bet on the Road
- Halltown, Missouri: The Antique Capital
- Plano, Missouri: First Ghost Town West of Springfield
- The Birthplace of Route Sixty-Six
- Gateway to the Ozarks, What Springfield Is
- Lebanon, Missouri: The Munger Moss Story
- Waynesville, Missouri: Mad Anthony's Town
- Devils Elbow, Missouri: The Log-Jam Bend
- Clementine: The Basket Weavers of Route 66
- Doolittle: The Town That Named Itself After a War Hero
- Doolittle, Missouri: Named for the General Who Flew In
- Rolla: The Ozarks Gateway and the School That Started It All
- St. James: Built to Ship Iron from the First Foundry West of the Mississippi
- St. James: Iron Furnaces and Route Sixty-Six Wine
- Cuba, Missouri
- Cuba, Missouri: The Mural Town That Reinvented Itself
- Wagon Wheel: Oldest Motel Still Running on Route 66
- Bourbon: The Only Town in America Named for the Whiskey
- Bourbon, Missouri: Named for a County, Not a Drink
- Sullivan, Missouri: Daniel Boone's Tip
- Sullivan: Ozark Gateway on the Gasconade
- Saint Clair, Missouri: Traveler's Repose
- Saint Clair: Deep in the Gasconade Hills on Route Sixty-Six
- Pacific, Missouri: Named for a Railroad
- Pacific: Gateway to the Meramec and the First Railroad West
- Eureka: Six Flags, the Meramec Caves, and the Edge of St. Louis
- Times Beach: The Town That Had to Die
- Times Beach: The Town That Dioxin Erased
- Fenton: Where the Chrysler Plant Defined a Saint Louis Suburb
Illinois
- Girard: Coal Country Between Springfield and Carlinville
- Mount Olive: Mother Jones Is Buried on Route Sixty-Six
- The Mother Road Through the Capital City
- The Cozy Dog and the Fair
- Elkhart: The Governor's Hill and an Illinois Lincoln Town
- Atlanta, Illinois: Paul Bunyan Holds a Hot Dog Here
- McLean: Funk's Grove and the Maple Sirup Road
- Funks Grove, Pure Maple Sirup
- Lexington, Illinois: Corn Belt Town on the Mother Road
- Chenoa: Lincoln's Law Partner and the Town He Platted
- Pontiac: Named for a Rebellion, Built on a Railroad
- Odell: One More Gas Station That Outlasted the Road
- The Oughton House of Dwight
- Dwight: The Gold Cure Capital of America
- Dwight: Old Fellows Drug Store and the Last Old Pump
- Braidwood: The Mine That Named a Town
- Wilmington: The Island City on the Kankakee
- Joliet: Blues Brothers, Limestone, and Route Sixty-Six
- Joliet: Where Route 66 Began Its Run
- Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket
- Buckingham Fountain's Borrowed Legend
- Route Sixty-Six, Main Street of America