![]() Remember to put in that you’re looking for multi city flights as you’ll be flying out to one city and back via another. Perfect if you’re flexible in your vacation dates. What I also like is that I can search for the entire month to see what dates are cheapest or even look over the entire year. This site searches all the airlines and companies selling those flights to give you the cheapest options. My tip for finding the cheapest flight to start your route 66 trip is to go on Skyscanner. If you’re flying from elsewhere in the USA there’s also the smaller Midway airport which might be worth checking out.Ĭoming back you’ll likely be using LAX which again is large enough that you might be able to find direct flights wherever you are in the world. It’s not too much of an obscure airport that you’ll have to connect and if you’re lucky you’ll be able to get a direct flight. The great thing about Chicago is that there’s a huge international airport there, Chicago O’Hare, and there’s plentiful flights arriving there from everywhere in the world. With a lack of passing trade, less money coming through these towns struggled and some even died out completely causing them to become ghost towns.īasically it’s exactly like the Disney film Cars! (Sad to say I knew nothing of the road before taking my kids to see this film and it totally inspired me to check it out in real life – now look at me!) They cut out many of the towns that originally thrived from the passing traffic which of course had a financial impact on those places. I guess there’s many answers to this but the main one was the introduction of the Interstates. Sounds pretty nice huh? So, why was route 66 abandoned? ![]() It was a famous road with songs and tv shows about it! Cue all those neon signs, quirky roadside attractions and exciting and different motels to stop at. (If you’re interested you might like these Route 66 facts)Īs times changed and the US grew more prosperous people began to take vacations and the road was there to take people on their way to to Los Angeles and with it grew a big tourism industry in the towns with them all vying for trade and trying all sorts to entice people to stay in their spot. Again in the war times it was used to move people to the Pacific coasts where a lot of the war related industries were. The road eventually became well used with the mass exodus of people migrating to the west especially in the 1930s dust bowl period. Initially it was built as a way to connect the larger towns to many of the smaller back road communities as before this many of them just didn’t have that access to roads – strange to think of it isn’t it? It was commissioned almost 100 years ago in November 1926 and was one of the very first highways built in the USA. Route 66 has a few other names that you might hear mentioned – the Will Rogers Highway, the Mother Road, Mainstreet America, US66 and of course Historic route 66.
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