Bobby Troup's song, "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66," was recorded by Nat King Cole in 1946. For the classic tune's 70th anniversary — and the road's 90th birthday — I drove the entire 2,448-mile ...

Cruising along Route 66 — the iconic ribbon of asphalt that runs from Chicago to Los Angeles — primes most Americans for a ...

The grand staircase on the first floor of Joplin City Hall served as a stage Thursday for a metal band from the Czech Republic that has written a hit song about the famous Mother Road byway that ran ...

If you play Bobby Troup’s famous Route 66 song backwards, you’d get the highlights of my trip, though it doesn’t rhyme as well. I drove Route 66 in reverse: Los Angeles to Chicago, more than 2,000 ...

The New Mexico Department of Transportation is the recipient of the 2025 Perpetual Pavement Award from the Asphalt Pavement Alliance for a nine-mile stretch of the original Route 66, near Los Lunas.