End of the Trail: Route 66 in California

Santa Monica Pier, CA

From border to border, California provides some of the biggest contrasts in geography on all of Route 66. Entering at the eastern border, drivers find themselves a mere speck in the massive expanse of the Mojave Desert where little remains of the towns, auto camps, and gas stations that were once available to Mother Road…

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Tin Sheets on 66 Pics: Holbrook, AZ to Santa Monica, CA

The final stretch of Route 66 takes you up through the mountains and down into the desert before finding its end at the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, CA. Much of the older alignment can still be traveled in this section, including almost 160 uninterrupted miles through Arizona, and many of the long ago popular…

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