Route 66 🇺🇸 Maps

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Maps 🗺️

Below are some maps to help guide you along the route. You’ll be off and on the highway in certain areas, and I have not ridden the entire route myself (although I have ridden a large portion of it). I have included on some of the maps, some of my favorite places to see and places to eat. There is so much to see on Route 66 that if you stopped at every little road-side attraction along the way it could take you months!

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Please do your own research before setting out on the route. I make no guarantees that these maps are accurate, and I will not be keeping them up to date. There are even locations along the way where the road has been wiped out or damaged due to lack of maintenance, floods, downed trees, etc. Route 66 is truly an adventure, but it should be treated with respect, particularly if you’re on 2 wheels!

Route 66 - Illinois

Route 66 - Illinois Stretch.

Most of the map is post-1930 alignment. A google maps error puts you on I-270 half a mile too early.

Includes an optional 1926-1930 alignment where the route traversed through Carlinville.

Route 66 - Missouri

This map follows some older versions of the route through Joplin and Springfield, Missouri. There is also an optional 1926-1932 route through St Louis, Missouri.

Kansas

Route 66 only goes a short distance through Kansas, but some of the most famous places like the Rainbow Bridge, FFA Route 66 sign, and (more recently) 'Cars on the Route' are on this stretch.

Oklahoma

MOTORCYCLE WARNING!!! There is pre-1937 route south of Miami, Oklahoma - also named 9-Foot Hwy - that has gravel and is not smooth at all. Use extreme caution or skip this section.

Optional pre-1937 route west of El Reno, Oklahoma.

Texas

MOTORCYCLE WARNING!!! Pre-1932 route west of McLean is a unpaved and gravel - exercise extreme caution or skip this section.

New Mexico

The Route 66 New Mexico map includes the pre-1937 route through Santa Fe as well as the post-1937 route.

MOTORCYCLE WARNING!!! Google Maps will not recognize part of the route near Laguna - this is the part marked orange.

There's approximately an eighteen-mile unpaved part of the route. Motorcycles use caution!!!

Arizona

MOTORCYCLE WARNING!!! The post-1931 route is unpaved dirt! USE CAUTION!

There's a pre-1941 route west of Flagstaff, Arizona.

California

Route 66 map through California. I tried to mark certain locations on the map and according to Google they "don't exist" but according to the guide books they do. The guide book I have linked at the bottom of this page on Route 66 will help you find all the roadside attractions.

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“Get your kicks on Route 66”

— Nat King Cole