What non-interstate route would you consider to be the Road of America? (motel, live)
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Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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For me personally, it would have to be several different highways...for east-west routes, either the Lincoln Highway (U.S. Highway 30), U.S. Highway 50, which runs transcontinental and virtually bisects the country, U.S. Highway 40 (America's Golden Highway, which also virtually bisects the country).
I would also include U.S. Route 66, but since it is defunct, I can no longer use it as a decent representation.
For me personally, it would have to be several different highways...for east-west routes, either the Lincoln Highway (U.S. Highway 30), U.S. Highway 50, which runs transcontinental and virtually bisects the country, U.S. Highway 40 (America's Golden Highway, which also virtually bisects the country).
I would also include U.S. Route 66, but since it is defunct, I can no longer use it as a decent representation.
Route 66 still exists in a limited form. There are some parts of it that was consumed by interstate, but here and there you can still find it. We take Route 66 from Springfield to Joplin all the time. One year we decided to take it all the way to Tucumcari, New Mexico. It was a lot of fun to see the old buildings along the way. We even stayed at the Bluebird Motel in Tucumcari which was one of the original "Route 66" motels.
Location: Jefferson City 4 days a week, St. Louis 3 days a week
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Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson
Route 66 still exists in a limited form. There are some parts of it that was consumed by interstate, but here and there you can still find it. We take Route 66 from Springfield to Joplin all the time. One year we decided to take it all the way to Tucumcari, New Mexico. It was a lot of fun to see the old buildings along the way. We even stayed at the Bluebird Motel in Tucumcari which was one of the original "Route 66" motels.
I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
20yrsinBranson
Sadly, they decommissioned Route 66 just one year before I was born. All I get to see now is the remnants of it. It ran almost literally a mile south of my house. I have driven the route in its entirety from Chicago all the way out to Flagstaff, Arizona. Getting to see all the history around it is something I want to relive eventually.
I would do so because not only is this NOT a U.S. interstate, but there are very few concurrences with existing interstate highways. The largest city of size along this route is Abilene Texas. I would certainly nominate this to be the road of the Great Plains, as well as rural, frontier land America.
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