The Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff reports that the Williams City Council will provide an update Thursday evening about a proposed theme park. The council will hold a behind-closed-doors executive session at 6 p.m. regarding the "purchase, sale or lease of real property" for Grand Canyon Northland Amusements & Entertainment. During the council's regular meeting … Continue reading Williams theme park update coming tonight
Category: Attractions
Grand Canyon Skywalk opens to media
The Grand Canyon Skywalk was opened to reporters and dignitaries on Tuesday. It will be open to the public March 28. For those unfamiliar with it, the Skywalk is a gigantic, horseshoe-shaped structure made of steel and glass that juts 70 feet into the yawning canyon. You can actually see through the floor to 4,000 … Continue reading Grand Canyon Skywalk opens to media
College students bring their ideas to Mother Road
This Associated Press story tells about Oklahoma's Scenic Byways program and how its federal funds can benefit towns and attractions along Route 66. It sounds like ideas are being kicked around, such as a Will Rogers statue in Bethany and an information kiosk in El Reno that looks like a vintage gas station. The more … Continue reading College students bring their ideas to Mother Road
Albuquerque’s unusual museums
This story from the Rocky Mount Telegram in North Carolina focuses on a few of the more unusual museums that are in the Duke City, including the Turquoise Museum, the Rattlesnake Museum, the Explora children's science museum, and the Unser Racing Museum (Al Unser is a native of Albuquerque).
A lodging option for Old Town tourists
Here's a place very close to historic Route 66 and the Old Town neighborhood of Albuquerque that I was previously unaware -- Bottger Mansion of Old Town. According to this travel article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Bottger, built in 1910, is the only survivor of four mansions built in Old Town. The B&B's … Continue reading A lodging option for Old Town tourists
Goodies from the Roadside America newsletter
In the regular e-mail newsletter from the excellent Roadside America site, there are two new Route 66-related field reports: Wigwam Village Motel #6 in Holbrook, Ariz. The Route 66 Monument in Tucumcari, N.M.
Yet another travel story about Albuquerque
Beverly Beyette of the Chicago Tribune writes about Albuquerque as a travel destination. I swear, this is the third or fourth story in the past year about the larger, less-sexy sister city to Santa Fe suddenly becoming a belle of the ball. I'm not knocking it. After all, Albuquerque was once seen as a rather … Continue reading Yet another travel story about Albuquerque
The summit of La Bajada Hill
Even though video can never quite do it justice, this 360-degree clip from the summit of La Bajada Hill gives you an inkling of what this primitive alignment of Route 66 is like. For a more Route 66-oriented viewpoint, go here. The road on La Bajada was Route 66 from 1926 to 1932. It contains … Continue reading The summit of La Bajada Hill
Pig Hip ponderings
Springfield (Ill.) Journal-Register columnist Dave Bakke took a look at the surviving momentoes salvaged from the fire that destroyed the Pig Hip Museum on Route 66 in Broadwell, Ill. It's a terrific read, including the description of longtime proprieter Ernie Edwards poking at the body of a dead squirrel that's believed to have caused the … Continue reading Pig Hip ponderings
Grand Canyon Skywalk isn’t all rose-colored views
Andrew Gumbel of The Independent newspaper in Great Britain wrote an interesting piece about the soon-to-be-open Grand Canyon Skywalk and the divisions it's creating in the Hualapai Indian tribe. In case you haven't heard about it, Skywalk is a horseshoe-shaped walkway covered in Plexiglass that juts 70 feet into the Grand Canyon. Near the end … Continue reading Grand Canyon Skywalk isn’t all rose-colored views