Where the Mule Teams Ended and Route 66 Began: Daggett on the Mother Road

Ten miles east of Barstow on the old two-lane National Trails Highway — the alignment of Route 66 through the western Mojave Desert — the small unincorporated town of Daggett, California sits at the junction of the railroad tracks and the desert road like a chapter of the American West that refuses to close. The California Historic Route 66 Association puts it directly: “Daggett is one of the oldest towns in the entire Mojave Desert.” When the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad arrived in 1882, Daggett was the most important town between Needles and Barstow — the railhead for the silver mines of Calico, the terminus for the famous Death Valley Twenty-Mule-Team borax wagons, the supply point for Death Valley prospectors, the stop where Death Valley Scotty slept between his legendary desert journeys, and the place where Seymour Alf — the blacksmith who built the great borax wagons — set up shop and later graded the road that would become Route 66 itself.

Today, Daggett has a population of approximately 200 people and is described honestly as a place that “still struggles to hang on to life.” The railroad maintenance yards moved to Barstow. The silver mines played out. The borax operations shifted to Death Valley. A 1908 fire razed the commercial district. Interstate 40 bypassed the old Route 66 alignment. And yet what remains is extraordinary for a town this small: the Stone Hotel from 1875 (survivor of three fires, now the Daggett Museum); the Desert Market (built 1908 from a railcar load of cement, the first fireproof building in the Mojave Desert, still operating as a general store); the Alf’s Blacksmith Shop from 1890 (listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025, still owned by the Alf family); the steel Fouts Brothers Garage building (moved to its spot by a twenty-mule team in 1896, an auto repair shop on the National Old Trails Highway); the California Inspection Station site featured in John Ford’s film of The Grapes of Wrath; and the site of the world’s first commercial solar power plant (SEGS I, 1984). Daggett is a ghost-town-that-isn’t, on a Route 66 alignment that still runs through it — and it is one of the most genuinely irreplaceable stops on California’s Mojave Desert corridor.

Where Is Daggett on Route 66?

Daggett is located on the National Trails Highway — the original Route 66 alignment — approximately 10 miles east of Barstow and 20 miles west of Newberry Springs, in San Bernardino County. The town sits alongside the BNSF Railway’s transcontinental main line (the successor to the original Santa Fe Railroad), and the Mojave River crosses near the town’s eastern approach. Interstate 40 runs parallel to and immediately south of the old Route 66 alignment here, making Daggett accessible but bypassed — the classic condition of the Route 66 towns that I-40 rendered commercially obsolete.

From Barstow (west): Take I-40 east approximately 10 miles, exit at Daggett/Yermo Road exit and follow the National Trails Highway east into Daggett. Alternatively, follow the National Trails Highway east from Barstow directly. From Newberry Springs (east): Follow the National Trails Highway west approximately 20 miles. From Barstow-Daggett Airport: The general aviation airport is immediately adjacent to Daggett. The historic district is within walking distance of the airport’s main facilities.

Daggett’s History: From Calico Railhead to Borax Capital of the Mojave

Calico Junction: Silver and the Railroad (1880–1883)

Daggett’s story begins in 1880, when silver was discovered in the nearby Calico Mountains to the north. The discovery triggered a mining boom centered on the town of Calico — which would grow into one of the richest silver strikes in California history, eventually producing approximately $20 million in silver at peak values. In 1882, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (later absorbed into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) was being completed across the Mojave from Needles west toward California, and it established a station in the desert below the Calico Mountains to service the mines. This station was originally called “Calico Junction” — the obvious name for a railroad stop serving the Calico mines.

In the spring of 1883, the station was renamed “Daggett” in honor of John R. Daggett (1833–1919), then Lieutenant Governor of California — who also, not coincidentally, owned the Bismarck Mine in Calico. The timing was shrewd: naming a railroad station after a lieutenant governor who owned a mine nearby ensured that the new station would receive official support. The Daggett historical marker, erected in 1995 by the Billy Holcomb Chapter of E Clampus Vitus, records the community’s dual origin: a “supply point and railhead for the mines of Death Valley and Calico.” Within its first decade, Daggett had two narrow-gauge feeder railroads to the mines (the Daggett-Calico Railroad from 1888, and the Borate and Daggett Railroad) and was processing silver and borax from multiple sources.

The Twenty-Mule-Team Era: Death Valley Borax and Daggett’s Railhead

The most celebrated chapter in Daggett’s history is its role as the railhead for the Death Valley Twenty-Mule-Team borax operation — one of the most famous logistics stories in American Western history. The borax deposits in Death Valley were extraordinarily rich but impossibly remote. Getting borax from the desert floor of Death Valley to the railroad at Daggett required crossing 165 miles of desert and mountains — a journey that took ten to eleven days one way and tested the limits of what freight transportation could accomplish.

The solution, pioneered by freighter Ed Stiles working for the Coleman Borax operation and later systematized by Francis Marion Smith (known as the “Borax King”), was the Twenty-Mule Team: wagons of extraordinary dimensions — “sixteen feet long by four feet wide and sides six feet high, with rear wheels seven feet in diameter and front wheels five feet in diameter” — loaded with ten tons of borax each and linked to a water wagon trailer, the whole assembly weighing approximately twenty tons when fully loaded. Twenty mules provided the motive power, hauling the wagons from Death Valley across the desert to the railroad at Daggett — roughly a ton of load per animal. The operation ran for five years beginning in 1883, with wagons arriving in Daggett from the Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley for rail shipment onward.

The borax wagons the Twenty-Mule Teams pulled were built in Daggett by Seymour Alf’s blacksmith shop — giving Daggett a direct manufacturing role in the most famous freight operation in American desert history. The Daggett historical marker records: “In 1888 it was connected to Calico by the narrow gauge Calico R.R. Silver prices dropped in the early 1890’s and the mines closed. At this time rich borax deposits were being worked at nearby Borate. 20 mule teams hauled the borax to Daggett for rail shipment. An era ended in 1898 when the famous teams were replaced by the Borate & Daggett R.R.” The replacement of the mule teams with a railroad — driven by Francis Marion Smith’s Pacific Coast Borax Company — reduced the shipping cost from $2 per ton by mule team to $0.12 per ton by railroad, a sixteen-fold reduction. Smith’s Borate and Daggett Railroad would later inspire him to build the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, and rights-of-way established by Smith’s railroads were eventually incorporated into the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.

Francis Marion Smith, the Borax King, and Daggett’s Peak

The most powerful individual in Daggett’s history was Francis Marion “Borax” Smith (1846–1931) — the “Borax King” who moved his Pacific Coast Borax operations from Death Valley to Daggett in 1891 and established a mine and processing town named “Borate” inside the Calico Mountains, approximately three miles east of the old silver mines. Smith employed nearly 200 men at peak operation, shipping seven to eight freight cars of borax ore daily from Daggett, each weighing fifteen tons. At its peak, monthly shipments of silver from Daggett averaged $100,000 — an extraordinary figure for a Mojave Desert town of a few hundred people in the 1880s.

Smith moved his operations east — back toward Death Valley — in 1907, when richer borax deposits were discovered in the Lila C. Mines north of Daggett. This relocation, combined with the silver price collapse that had already closed the Calico mines, began Daggett’s long decline. In 1908, a fire razed the commercial district. The railroad maintenance yards had already moved to Barstow. The two narrow-gauge feeder railroads were closed. The economic rationale for Daggett’s existence had essentially been removed within a decade, and the town — which had never incorporated as a city — began its slow contraction to the approximately 200 souls who live there today.

Death Valley Scotty and the Stone Hotel

Among the most colorful figures associated with Daggett’s Stone Hotel was Walter “Death Valley Scotty” Scott (1872–1954) — the legendary prospector, entertainer, and self-promoter whose “vast mining interests” in Death Valley were largely mythological but whose personality and showmanship made him one of the most famous characters in the American West. Scotty regularly passed through Daggett on his journeys between Death Valley and civilization, and stayed at the Stone Hotel often — making him a regular presence in a town that was already accustomed to extraordinary characters from its borax and silver mining days. The Stone Hotel’s guest register, if it had survived, would read like a directory of Western American history.

Route 66 Arrives: The National Old Trails Highway and the Mother Road

The shift from mining to highway travel that saved what remained of Daggett was gradual. As early as the 1910s, the growing automobile culture was creating demand for a paved cross-country route, and the National Old Trails Highway — the precursor to Route 66 — was aligned along the Santa Fe Railroad tracks through Daggett. By the early 1920s, a guide noted Daggett’s population as approximately 100, describing it as: “Stores and garages, campground. Gateway to Famous Death Valley and 40 mule team borax field. Some of the original old wagons can be seen here…” When U.S. Route 66 was commissioned on November 11, 1926, it was aligned along this National Old Trails Highway route through Daggett — giving the town a new identity as a Route 66 desert stop rather than a mining supply railhead.

Route 66 brought a different kind of traveler to Daggett. The California Inspection Station — established at the western edge of town to prevent diseased plants and fruits from entering California from the east — became a defining feature of the Route 66 experience in Daggett, and a focal point of John Steinbeck’s account of the Joad family’s journey in The Grapes of Wrath. The town’s blacksmith Seymour Alf, who had built wagons for the Twenty-Mule Teams, adapted to the automobile era and became — according to the California Historic Route 66 Association — “a primary grader and builder of roads throughout the Mojave Desert, including that which would become Route 66.” Daggett’s direct role in building the road that travelers now drive through it is one of the more satisfying historical coincidences on the Mother Road.

The Stone Hotel and Daggett Museum: Survivor of Three Fires

At the heart of Daggett’s surviving historic district, the Stone Hotel is the oldest and most storied building in the community. Constructed in 1875 — seven years before the railroad arrived and eight years before the town was even named — the Stone Hotel was originally a two-story building with a domed lobby that served as the premier accommodation and gathering place for miners, freighters, railroad men, and desert travelers of every description. The Discover Newberry Springs account notes that “many people got off the train in Daggett, stayed at the Stone Hotel (built in 1875), got their supplies, and headed north” — north toward Death Valley, toward Calico, toward whatever fortune or adventure the desert might offer.

The Stone Hotel has survived three fires during its lifetime — a remarkable record of resilience for a structure that has stood for a century and a half in a desert community with no consistent fire suppression infrastructure. After the 1908 fire that razed much of Daggett’s commercial district, the Stone Hotel was restored as a one-story structure — its second story and domed lobby sacrificed to the reconstruction. The building is now owned by the Daggett-Calico Historical Society and serves as the Daggett Museum — open for visitors and operated by the Historical Society, which meets on the first Thursday of every month. The museum’s collection documents the full arc of Daggett’s history from the silver and borax era through the Route 66 years.

The Desert Market: The First Fireproof Building in the Mojave Desert

Directly adjacent to the Stone Hotel, the Desert Market (also historically known as Ryerson’s General Store) is one of the most historically significant commercial buildings on the Route 66 alignment in the California Mojave. Built in 1908 from a railcar load of cement — shipped specifically to replace the original wooden building that had burned in the 1908 fire — the Desert Market was “reportedly the first fire-proof building constructed in the Mojave Desert.” The choice of materials was deliberate and practical: in a desert town with a documented history of devastating fires and limited access to water for firefighting, the investment in fireproof cement construction was a rational response to the pattern of destruction.

The Desert Market continues to serve its original purpose today — still operating as a general store, the only store for miles in this section of the Mojave Desert. For Route 66 travelers, the Desert Market offers the rare experience of shopping in a building that has supplied desert travelers continuously since 1908 — through the Route 66 heyday, through the Interstate era’s commercial decline, and into the present. The Google Arts and Culture Route 66 San Bernardino County guide notes: “It still serves its original purpose today; stop in for supplies!” In the Mojave Desert, that practical advice carries genuine weight.

Alf’s Blacksmith Shop: National Register of Historic Places (2025)

The third building in Daggett’s remarkable historic cluster is the most recently honored: Alf’s Blacksmith Shop, built in 1890 by Seymour Alf — the most consequential individual in Daggett’s physical history. The shop received a National Register of Historic Places designation in 2025 and is still owned by the Alf family — making it not merely a preserved historic site but a living continuity of family ownership across more than 130 years and multiple phases of American history.

Seymour Alf: Wagon Builder, Road Builder, Route 66 Pioneer

Seymour Alf’s biography is an arc of American frontier industriousness that traces directly to the Route 66 alignment. The California Historic Route 66 Association describes him: “A prominent member of Daggett history is Seymour Alf, a blacksmith who once built wagons for those 20-mule teams. Later, when roads started to become more prominent, Alf was known as a primary grader and builder of roads throughout the Mojave Desert, including that which would become Route 66.” The historical account in the Owens Valley history documents the precision of his wagon craftsmanship: “Alf’s shop was known for building the borax wagons made famous by the Death Valley 20-Mule-Team freighters.”

The sequence of Alf’s work is a microcosm of the American West’s transportation evolution: from building the wagons that the mule teams pulled, to grading the desert roads that the automobiles drove, to seeing those roads designated as Route 66 — all from the same blacksmith shop in a town of a few hundred people in the Mojave Desert. The National Register listing in 2025 formally acknowledges what the Route 66 community has long understood: Alf’s Blacksmith Shop is not merely a surviving old building but a direct physical connection to the entire arc of Mojave Desert transportation history.

Fouts Brothers Garage: The Building That a Twenty-Mule Team Moved

At the eastern end of Daggett’s historic block, on the south side of the National Trails Highway close to the Santa Fe Railroad tracks, stands one of the more unusual buildings on the entire Route 66 corridor: a rusty steel building at the corner of Fourth Street and Santa Fe Street that has had two separate addresses in two separate towns and was moved between them — the second time, at least — by a twenty-mule team.

The building’s history begins in the 1880s at Marion — Francis Marion Smith’s “borax town” on Calico Dry Lake. It was moved to Daggett in 1896 by a twenty-mule team and placed by the Mojave River Bridge on the Daggett-Yermo Road, where it served as the roundhouse for the narrow-gauge railroad of the Waterloo Mine. It was then moved again to its present location (in 1896 or 1912, according to different sources), where it became a livery stable, then a garage, then an auto repair shop on the National Old Trails Highway that passed directly beside it. The Fout brothers bought the building in 1946 and ran it as a garage until the mid-1980s. A historic plaque on the western facade tells the full story. The building is one of the few Route 66 structures that can claim to have been transported by the same technology it later helped replace — moved by a twenty-mule team to its position on the road that would become the automobile’s American Main Street.

The California Inspection Station and The Grapes of Wrath

Between Daggett and Newberry Springs on the National Trails Highway stands one of Route 66’s most historically and literarily significant sites: the location of the California Inspection Station that appears in both John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and in John Ford’s Academy Award-winning film adaptation of 1940. The inspection stations were established along California’s borders to prevent the introduction of diseased fruits and plants that might damage the state’s agricultural industries — particularly the citrus groves of the San Gabriel Valley and the Imperial Valley. Every traveler entering California from the east on Route 66 was stopped at these stations, required to declare fruits and vegetables, and issued an “admission certificate” before being allowed to continue their journey.

For the Joad family in Steinbeck’s novel — Dust Bowl refugees from Oklahoma driving a battered Hudson Super Six west on Route 66 toward California’s supposed agricultural paradise — the inspection station represented the first bureaucratic encounter with their promised land: officials who questioned their right to enter, who examined their possessions, who made them feel like intruders rather than citizens. The scene at the inspection station in both the book and the film is one of the most powerful expressions of the tensions between migrants and the established economy that Route 66 carried in the 1930s — a tension that the Joad family’s journey both embodied and challenged. The California Historic Route 66 Association specifically notes that “this station was featured in the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath’.”

The inspection stations’ physical history in Daggett is well-documented. There were three inspection sites over the years; the last surviving remains of the 1953–1967 station can still be seen on the National Trails Highway west of Newberry Springs, six miles west of I-40’s Exit 18. The Ski Lodge building (not a ski lodge but named for its architectural form) at Inspection Station #1 — built by the Minneola Land Development Company in the early 1920s as a sales office and information center — is documented as a standard design used by California for inspection stations and welcome centers, with an identical structure found at the Winterhaven station near the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona. The California Inspection Stations were a direct response to Route 66’s role as the primary overland route connecting the drought-stricken Midwest to California’s agriculture.

Daggett and the World’s First Commercial Solar Power Plant

Daggett holds a distinction in the history of renewable energy that has nothing to do with Route 66’s heritage but everything to do with the Mojave Desert’s most abundant resource: sunshine. In 1982, the Solar One pilot project began operation in Daggett — a unique solar thermal energy plant that used mirror-like heliostats to aim sunlight at a collecting cylinder on a solar power tower, through which oil flowed. The superheated oil created steam for power generation. Solar One operated from 1982 to 1986 before being upgraded to Solar Two in 1995, which substituted molten salt compounds for oil as the energy storage medium. During calibration of the plant’s thousands of heliostats, a “ball of glowing light” was sometimes visible in the surrounding area — an eerie byproduct of thousands of mirrors focusing the Mojave sun onto a single point.

More significantly, Daggett is the location of SEGS I (Solar Energy Generating System I) built in 1984 and SEGS II built in 1985 — the world’s first commercial solar power plants. The SEGS network’s Daggett installation preceded by decades the massive solar development that has since transformed the Mojave Desert into one of the most significant solar energy producing regions in the world. For a town whose most famous historical technology was mule-powered freight wagons, being home to the world’s first commercial solar power plants is a satisfying historical irony: Daggett has always been about capturing the desert’s extreme conditions and putting them to productive use.

The Barstow-Daggett Airport

Adjacent to Daggett, the Barstow-Daggett Airport was constructed in 1933 and serves today as a general aviation airport and regional weather information center for the Barstow area. Its World War II history adds a remarkable dimension: the airport was built as a modification center for the Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber aircraft that were sent to Russia as part of the Lend-Lease program. American aircraft built elsewhere were brought to Daggett for modification to Russian specifications before being flown to their Soviet recipients. This gives the Barstow-Daggett Airport the distinction of being one of the more obscure but genuine American World War II logistical contributions to the Soviet war effort.

Calico Ghost Town: The Silver Mining Capital Near Daggett

No visit to Daggett is complete without acknowledging its older and more famous neighbor: Calico Ghost Town, approximately 5 miles northeast of Daggett in the Calico Mountains. The town that gave Daggett its original name (Calico Junction) is now operated as a San Bernardino County Regional Park and is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the California Mojave Desert. Calico produced approximately $86 million in silver and $45 million in borax between 1881 and 1907. In the 1950s, the town was purchased and partially restored by Walter Knott — of Knott’s Berry Farm fame (and whose Buena Park restaurant was also supplied with chickens from nearby Newberry Springs) — who donated it to San Bernardino County in 1966.

Calico today features preserved and reconstructed buildings from the mining era, a working mine tour, stagecoach rides, living history programming, and one of the most atmospheric historic townscapes in the Mojave Desert. The relationship between Calico and Daggett runs through the entire Route 66 story: Calico was the reason for Daggett’s founding, the source of its wealth, and the destination of its narrow-gauge railroads; today, travelers who visit Daggett for Route 66 reasons and Calico for ghost-town reasons are retracing the same geographic logic that defined both towns from their beginnings.

Practical Information for Your Daggett Route 66 Visit

Getting to Daggett

From Barstow (west): Take I-40 east approximately 10 miles to the Daggett/Yermo Road exit, then follow the National Trails Highway east into town. Or follow the National Trails Highway east directly from Barstow along the old Route 66 alignment — this is the recommended approach for travelers wanting the full Route 66 experience.

From Newberry Springs (east): Follow the National Trails Highway west approximately 20 miles from Newberry Springs into Daggett.

From Barstow via I-40: The Daggett/Yermo Road exit is approximately 10 miles east of downtown Barstow on I-40.

The Daggett Museum

The Daggett Museum is housed in the historic Stone Hotel. The Daggett-Calico Historical Society operates the museum and meets on the first Thursday of every month. Contact the Historical Society for current museum hours and tour availability. The museum’s collection covers both Daggett and Calico history and is one of the most authentic small-town Route 66 museum experiences on the California Mojave corridor.

The Desert Market

The Desert Market (the first fireproof building in the Mojave Desert, built 1908) is still operating as a general store. It is the only store for many miles in this section of the Mojave and serves locals and Route 66 travelers alike. Stop in for supplies, water, and a direct connection to a building that has been serving desert travelers for over 115 years.

Alf’s Blacksmith Shop

Alf’s Blacksmith Shop (1890), now listed on the National Register of Historic Places (2025), still stands in the historic district. The shop remains in the Alf family. It is visible from the National Trails Highway in the downtown historic cluster alongside the Stone Hotel and Desert Market. The historical marker on Fouts Brothers Garage — at the corner of Fourth Street and Santa Fe Street — is also worth reading in full.

The Grapes of Wrath Inspection Station Site

The remains of the 1953–1967 California Inspection Station on the National Trails Highway are approximately 6 miles west of I-40’s Exit 18 (Newberry Springs Road), near Newberry Springs — east of Daggett on the approach to town. The site is on the right (north) side when traveling west. The 1930s inspection station that appeared in the 1940 film The Grapes of Wrath was located in Daggett itself; its specific site is documented by the Daggett-Calico Historical Society.

Calico Ghost Town

Calico Ghost Town Regional Park is approximately 5 miles northeast of Daggett. Follow Ghost Town Road north from I-15 (not I-40). The park charges a modest admission fee and is open daily. Allow 2–3 hours for a thorough visit including the mine tour. The combination of a Daggett Route 66 stop (Stone Hotel, Desert Market, Alf’s Blacksmith Shop, Fouts Garage) and a Calico Ghost Town visit makes for a comprehensive half-day to full-day Mojave desert history experience.

Time Required

A focused Daggett Route 66 visit — the Stone Hotel/Daggett Museum, Desert Market, Alf’s Blacksmith Shop, Fouts Brothers Garage, the Daggett historical marker, and the solar plant site (viewed from the road) — requires approximately 1–2 hours in the town itself. Adding Calico Ghost Town extends the visit to a comfortable half-day. Adding the Grapes of Wrath inspection station site approach from Newberry Springs adds another 30–40 minutes of driving on the old Route 66 alignment.

Desert Safety

Daggett is in the Mojave Desert with summer highs regularly exceeding 104°F (40°C). Carry at least one gallon of water per person per day. Ensure your vehicle is in good mechanical condition before leaving Barstow. The Desert Market can supply water and basic provisions. The Barstow-Daggett Airport has basic facilities in case of emergency.

Nearby Route 66 Highlights in the Mojave Desert

Route 66 Mother Road Museum, Barstow — About 10 miles west on Route 66, the restored Harvey House railroad depot in Barstow houses the Route 66 “Mother Road” Museum — one of two dedicated Route 66 museums in California. The Harvey House itself is a National Register property and one of the finest surviving examples of Fred Harvey’s Southwest railroad hospitality empire.

Barstow Harvey House — Casa del Desierto — The full story of Barstow’s Casa del Desierto — the 1911 Harvey House station rebuilt after a 1908 fire (the same fire year that destroyed Daggett’s commercial district) — including its Route 66 history, the Western American Railroad Museum, and its current function as a cultural and transit hub.

Bagdad Café, Newberry Springs — About 20 miles east on Route 66 (National Trails Highway), the world-famous filming location of Percy Adlon’s 1987 cult classic — one of the most internationally celebrated landmarks on the entire California corridor.

Roy’s Motel and Café, Amboy — About 75 miles east on Route 66, Roy’s Motel and Café in the ghost town of Amboy is the other great Route 66 desert landmark of the California Mojave — a former gas station, motel, and café with a restored Googie-style neon sign that remains one of the most photographed sites on the entire Mother Road.

Amboy Crater — About 80 miles east on Route 66, the Amboy Crater is a National Natural Landmark volcanic cinder cone with a maintained hiking trail — accessible from the Route 66 alignment through the most remote section of the California corridor.

California Route 66 Museum, Victorville — About 35 miles west via Barstow and Cajon Pass, the California Route 66 Museum in Victorville is the other dedicated Route 66 museum in California, housed in the former Red Rooster Café and covering the highway’s desert and mountain corridor.

Route 66 in California — Complete Guide — The full overview of all 314 miles of California’s Route 66 from Needles through the Mojave Desert, Daggett, Barstow, Cajon Pass, and the San Gabriel Valley to the End of the Trail at the Santa Monica Pier.

Route 66 Centennial 2026 — The 100th anniversary of Route 66 is November 11, 2026. Daggett — one of the oldest towns on the California Mojave corridor and the community whose blacksmith literally helped grade the road that became Route 66 — holds a foundational place in the Centennial story.

Route 66 — Complete Guide — The definitive guide to all 2,448 miles of the Mother Road, from the Begin sign in Chicago to the End of the Trail at the Santa Monica Pier.