Route 66 Illinois & Missouri
Our “Route 66 Snapshots” offer you 5, 6 & 7 day segments of this classic highway. This tour starts in Chicago and features Illinois & Missouri. Since 1926, Route 66 has defined a remarkable era in our nation’s history. It has changed the lives of people, and their communities and connected not only the East and the West but also the past and the present. The Route 66 spirit lives on in many roadside attractions, museums, and restaurants located along “The Mother Road.”
St. Louis & The Mother Road
This short four day features St Louis, as the largest city on Route 66 between Los Angeles and Chicago. You’ll spend a day with sights to the north and another day touring the south, you learn of history and life on what Steinbeck called “The Mother Road” in his vivid portrait, The Grapes of Wrath. You hear about Americana, family vacations, early tourist marketing as tap your toes to Nat King Cole’s “Won’t you get hip, to this timely tip, Get your kicks on Route 66..”