The route becomes more rural with fewer towns as you get further west, but there is almost always a gas station within a 30 to 60 minute drive. The only stretch though that would be a real concern is the Mojave Desert stretch in California as it is the most desolate stretch with the fewest services. BTW, as mentioned in the article if you do NOT have an American credit card with an American address, you may not be able to get fuel at automatic stations without an attendant.
Many require you to put in the zip code attached to the credit card. Sounds like you have traveled in a state Florida maybe? As far as I know and can remember, there are no road tolls along Route However, you may encounter them as you drive around to explore the larger cities along the route like Chicago and Los Angeles.
If you do encounter tolls, you can pay cash. Can you please give some tips. Glad you are finding our Route 66 planning guide helpful, and excited to hear that you are planning to do the route this summer. There are a lot of major rental car companies that have offices in both Chicago and Los Angeles and allow one-way rentals, but as you are finding, most charge a hefty one-way rental fee.
Rental car prices depend a lot on time of year as well. Hope this helps and let us know if you have further questions as you plan your Route 66 road trip! Wow, this is amazing!! Great practical advice in your planning guide and a very useable detailed Rte 66 itinerary. Thank you for taking the time to put this excellent resource together for the benefit of the rest of us!! Hi Shawn, Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, and we are very happy that you are finding our planning guide and itinerary helpful in planning your Route 66 road trip!
We do put a lot of time and effort into our travel blog and always love to hear when we have helped someone. Do let us know if you have any questions as you plan your trip, and feel free to report back on your own Route 66 trip! I wanted to thank you for all the information in your blog.
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We are planning a Coast to Coast trip next year following I from Barstow to the east coast not sure where then on to the Florida Keys. I plan on checking out your itinerary, mainly to see if there were parts of the road that were not motorcycle friendly — too deteriorated parts of the road. And I have followed a couple of your links to guides on Amazon. Thanks again for a wonderful afternoon of road trip research!
Hi Perri, So glad your found our Route 66 guide and the itinerary will also likely come in handy for the sections you want to drive. I would probably also recommend the latest version of the EZ 66 Guide as Jerry typically has the latest road information he does the route in a car each year but many motorcyclists use his guide as well and you can visit his website to learn more about road closures, floods, detours, etc. If you are looking for a historic route to the east coast you might consider U.
Route 30 which today still closely follows the Lincoln Highway — it was the first transcontinental road for automobiles in the U. The Keys are fantastic and a great way to end such an epic cross-country road trip! So many great towns and cities you can visit on the way south as well.
Feel free to reach out if you want any recommendations as you continue your planning! My great-grandfather used to tell my father his stories of Route 66, about the experienced he had with his friends. These fun stories have created curiosity in my mind that even I want to experience Rte 66 once in my life at least.
I really liked how you explained everything in such detail you made me remember all those stories I heard when I was a kid. Hi Rachel, Thanks for your comment and I hope you have a chance to do a Route 66 road trip some day and see some of the things that your great-grandfather spoke about to your father! Before undertaking Route 66 I started researching online.
There was a lot of information out there, much of it not very helpful so the first task was to work out which sites provided information and suggestions which were relevant to the trip I wanted to do. Armed with the information from your site, I was able to target my further research without wasting time and effort. I chose to follow the actual Route as far as possible and if where there was more than one alignment, I would always take the older alignment if it was available and driveable.
I think your advice to not over-plan the trip is critical. This is not characteristic of my holiday planning, but in the end, I just decidedt to go with the Road and stop at the end of the day. I know Jerry McClanahan is intending to update that publication but I doubt that will be on the bookshelves for another year at least. So many sights, experiences and now memories.
I loved it and am so glad I had the opportunity to experience Route 66 first-hand. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment and share about your Route 66 road trip experience after the trip! Sounds like you had a great Route 66 trip — 3 weeks allows you to really explore and see a lot.
We are also happy to hear you used our Route 66 articles to help plan your road trip and sightsee along the way! This was such a great sight to get to know the Route 66 and all that it has to offer. Thank goodness my dad stopped at some of the Historical towns and sights.
My 66th Birthday is this May and thought I would make that trip. Looking so forward to it. Thank you for all your great info. Hopefully our guide and our Route 66 itinerary will help you plan your trip, but do let us know if you have any questions as we are happy to help! Love your articles… especially this one. As a child my family traveled Route 66 each year to visit family in Eastern Oklahoma. Your excellent writing and photos bring back many good memories.
Hi JD, So glad you enjoyed our Route 66 travel guide and I am glad it brought back some good memories for you. Hi, We are thinking of traveling Route 66 next year, just read your blog, very informative and helpful, thank you! I was wondering about safety on the route? My other worry was breaking down but you have already covered that. One part of me loves the thought of being on the open road of the route, the other worries about the dangers you could encounter? Standing out as obvious tourists with regards to robberies etc?
Yes, there are many ways to be prepared for car related issues or accidents such as having proper insurance, subscribing to a roadside assistance program, making sure you have the proper gear in your car e. The safety question is a good one and I will add some of this information to the main article for future readers who may also have concerns. Crime rates vary considerably along the route from big cities like LA, Chicago and Albuquerque where there is higher crime to small little towns in Oklahoma or Arizona that may experience almost no crime.
A lot of crime, especially violent crime, happens late at night or early in the morning so completing your sightseeing by dinner time most things are closed by then anyway and heading off to your accommodation for the night may make you feel safer. We felt very safe on our trip, particularly during the day but I has also been to many of the states before and had lived in both CA and NM. I think the biggest concerns are probably theft of valuables and car and here is some of our general safety advice we give to people when traveling applies to Route 66 or really anywhere!
Some people also like to carry pepper spray. Hope this helps, and wishing you a wonderful and safe Route 66 road trip if you do decide to do it!! I like how thorough and detailed it is. One thing that scares me with long road trips like this is car trouble. Something as little as a flat tire or bad fuel injector can throw off the entire trip. Hi Aaron, Thanks, glad you enjoyed our Route 66 road trip article and thanks for taking the time to comment. Yes, a long road trip can be a bit scary as things can go wrong with your car. In fact, we just had a flat tire and problems with our clutch on a road trip in the past couple of weeks.
But there are ways that you can be prepared for some issues such as having insurance, subscribing to a roadside assistance program, making sure you have the proper gear in your car e. But definitely something you should think about, especially if going to less populated areas where you may not be close to service stations. We had a wonderful time traveling Route 66 and wishing you a similarly wonderful Route 66 road trip!
I enjoyed reading about your thoughts and experiences on Route Due to work schedules, we only had 10 days to get over there from Tokyo and back again, so we did half the route, from Chicago to Adrian, TX. We look forward to doing the other half in a year or two, hopefully by Harley next time. My husband is a biker. I am the decorative partner who rides on the back.
All the best to you guys and your cats—we have three of our own. Three kids, three cats. Hi Louise, Glad you enjoyed reading our guide to Route 66, and it sounds like you had a great trip if you plan to return to do the rest of the route. Wishing the best to you as well and hope you get a chance to return in the next few years! Thanks for the great information, I want to buy a gas card for a friend who is driving the complete route this month.
What national brand companies are most prevalent along the route. The vast majority allow you to pay with a credit or debit card, so I would suggest instead of a gas card for a specific company getting at pre-paid credit or debit card for your friend to be able to use to purchase fuel as well as other essentials along the route food, supplies. You can purchase these cards online or via certain stores I think stores like WalMart carry them.
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Hi April, Thanks, Route 66 was a great road trip, probably our favorite of the many road trips we have taken so far! As a blogger who is, at the moment, not blogging much anymore due to lack of time, I appreciate the enormous amount of work you have put into this post.! I will heading from Vegas to Santa Fe in a couple weeks and really enjoyed your experience. We are just going to cruise along and see what we can see.
Of utmost importance to us is good food and interesting sites. You have given me a lot to look into. I absolutely love your photograph of the street in Calico. I would frame that and hang it on my wall. It is great art! Hi Lori, I am glad you found our article helpful and I hope you have a great trip along that section of Route There are some great places to visit in Arizona and New Mexico along Route I am a big fan of New Mexican food and highly recommend trying lots of New Mexican dishes and green chile burgers.
Thanks, glad you like our Calico ghost town photos definitely worth a visit! Any of our photos are available to our readers for printing, just email us for details. Have a great road trip! We are planning to drive out to CA, to see our children. We are making this an adventure and of course, must drive on Route 66! You have provided great information!
Thank you so much! Hi Jenny, Glad you found the Route 66 information helpful. Sounds like you have a fun trip planned and glad you get to incorporate Route 66! A fantastic and comprehensive article. Any advice on driving and navigating the big cities for a United Kingdom driver like me who drives on the left hand side of the road with steering wheel on right side of car.
Would definitely consider driving Route 66 with my wife and three kids. Thanks so much, we are glad you found the article to be comprehensive! Yes, it can be a great family trip, even if you just choose to do a portion of Route My husband is British so I definitely understand your question as we are currently living in Scotland. UK beginner driving tips for USA ,. Note that there are differences in traffic laws by state speed limits, whether U-turns are legal, fines for cell phone use but most traffic laws are similar across the states and similar to those in the UK.
Many of the traffic signs will be familiar or make sense to you. It will take you a bit of time to adjust to driving on the opposite side of the road and the opposite side of the car and I would suggest picking up your rental car in a smaller town or city to give you more time to practice driving in an easier place rather than picking it up in a congested city like Chicago, L. After a couple days of driving people often start feeling more comfortable. Also most American rentals are automatic which my husband actually now prefers as he found it much easier not having to worrying about changing gears all the time.
A great thing right now is that fuel prices in the U.
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Please let me know if you have any specific questions about traffic laws or planning a Route 66 road trip after checking out those links and we are happy to answer them. Hi, I have just read you blog.. But now we think we might buy the Ez66 book as well.. We are planning our trip ,well we have booked our trip for mid June of this year.. We are hoping to buy a bike and ride 66 but we have limited room ….. We would like to get the dining and food one but we might have to just go with what we find along the way.. But do know we will probably do to km a day on our trip.. I have written everything down so thank you so much..
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Hi Joy, I am glad that you found our Route 66 post useful and I hope it helps you plan your upcoming Route 66 road trip! There are some recommendations for food in the other guides, they are just more limited. There are some motorcycle guides to Route 66 out there as well, I included a link to them in the post, but the issue with most of these is that they are not that regularly updated so you are probably best to stick with the other guides. We are from South Africa…. So seven of us are booked to leave Johannesburg for Orlando on 7th December!
I would not be too concerned about driving in December but I would be prepared for cold temperatures and possible poor road conditions, especially in the mountain areas of both New Mexico and Arizona. If you are detouring to the Grand Canyon I would make RV spot reservations at least 3 months in advance as it is busy all year. I would definitely get one of the recommended books to help guide your Route 66 drive. Also I am not sure how much time you have, but it is a very long drive from Orlando to Las Vegas, and taking Route 66 will only make it slower.
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