Holbrook: Arizona's eastern gateway to Route 66 Located in the famous Painted Desert, Holbrook sits about 20 miles west of the Petrified Forest National Park and is the first major stop along ...

A new Route 66 Check-In Challenge offered by the Arizona Office of Tourism features historic roadside attractions. These are the best road trip stops.

The construction of Interstate 40 — a faster, if less colorful, highway — marked the beginning of the end for Route 66, much of whose western portion was paralleled or overlaid by the new road.