US 66 from Tulsa to St. Louis

[US71]

Watching this thread with interest since I would like to do something like this as well in the near future.

Missouri has most of their sections well marked...you just have to choose which alignment (St Louis has at least 3)

[bugo]

Tulsa has at least 3 (Admiral, 11th, Skelly Drive.)

[Alps]

Watching this thread with interest since I would like to do something like this as well in the near future.

Missouri has most of their sections well marked...you just have to choose which alignment (St Louis has at least 3)

I plan on driving as many as possible, including all of the bridges (or at least the stubs thereof). Most important thing is to do your homework - there are some very informative websites out there such that you don't even need to buy a book.

[NE2]

And with the historic USGS topos online you can trace the old routes through cities independent of modern descriptions that may be adjusted for one-way and closed streets.

[bugo]

Watching this thread with interest since I would like to do something like this as well in the near future.

Missouri has most of their sections well marked...you just have to choose which alignment (St Louis has at least 3)

I plan on driving as many as possible, including all of the bridges (or at least the stubs thereof). Most important thing is to do your homework - there are some very informative websites out there such that you don't even need to buy a book.

The websites are often more accurate than the books because the websites are updated while the books may have old, incorrect information.

[apeman33]

Tulsa has at least 3 (Admiral, 11th, Skelly Drive.)

Joplin/Webb City may have three or even four. I've tried to cover as much of each one as I can, but I don't know if I've gotten all of all of them.

[txstateends]

Don't know how it's signed now, but you'll come across the point near I-44 where US 59, US 60, US 66, and US 69 came together briefly.

Also, at the southern split of US 69 and ALT US 69 (Historic 66), there is a big yellow sign warning truckers not to take main US 69 but to take ALT 69 instead.  If you're curious, look at Google Street View's version of why instead of you taking a side trip up to the towns of Picher, OK and cross-border companion Treece, KS.  They are EPA superfund sites.  A local lead mine operated there for decades, but excavated too close to the surface.  There have been several sudden sinkholes since.  Also. the mine operations polluted the town's groundwater.  You will also see several piles of dirt off in the distance.  These are also remnants of the mining.  The dirt in the piles has traces of lead, and when the wind blows it takes the lead particles with the dust.  If that's not bad enough, Picher got hit by a tornado a few years ago, damaging what wasn't already messed up by the lead mine.

[national highway 1]

Apparently Google Maps is signing US 66 in and around St Louis.
http://g.co/maps/6jdd4

[US71]

Don't know how it's signed now, but you'll come across the point near I-44 where US 59, US 60, US 66, and US 69 came together briefly.

This SB 69 where 59 splits off.

[Scott5114]

Just remembered–not on 66 itself but nearby, the Joplin wig-wag. Ancient RR signal from long ago. Dunno whether it still exists or not; the last time I saw it was en route to the Chicago meet around four years ago. It may have been eaten by the tornado.

[US71]

Just remembered–not on 66 itself but nearby, the Joplin wig-wag. Ancient RR signal from long ago. Dunno whether it still exists or not; the last time I saw it was en route to the Chicago meet around four years ago. It may have been eaten by the tornado.

The tornado was mostly south of 7th St (MO 66).

IF the signal is still there, it's on East 3rd St west of School St.

[adt1982]

It's still there as of 11/18/11.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wras23/6360984415/