• Riding the Best-Preserved 156-Mile Stretch of Route 66

  • Nov 1 2024
  • Length: 10 mins
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Riding the Best-Preserved 156-Mile Stretch of Route 66

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  • Small towns are forgotten, their roads forlorn, disappearing in disrepair. All that remains are faded memories and fanciful folklore. Romanticized by Hollywood, the reality of Route 66 is a harsher reality. The tattered remnants of Route 66 through Bellemont Arizona are a naked reminder of the Oakie’s escape from the Dust Bowl. Bellemont is also home to the Pine Breeze Inn, (Richfield gas station), the first location shot in the movie Easy Rider. It was here the neon “Vacancy” sign switched to “No Vacancy,” and Billy and Wyatt were denied a room their first night. This ride will have a better ending.

    60 miles west of the Pine Breeze Inn is the best-preserved 156-mile stretch of the original Route 66. The State of Arizona dedicated old U.S. Route 66 from Seligman to Kingman as a Historic Route which assured the preservation of the longest undisturbed stretch of Old Route 66 in the United States. Here in the heart of cattle ranch country, Old RT 66 makes its way through Seligman, Peach Springs, Truxton, Crozier Canyon, Valentine, Hackberry, and Kingman and, ends just past Oatman in Topock.

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