US - Route 66

The United States Route 66 or Route 66 was an American highway, opened on 11 November 1926 (although not all signs were installed until the following year), one of the first federal highway, which originally it connected Chicago to Santa Monica beach through the states Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, over a total distance of 3 755 km (2 448 miles).

Used for westward migration, especially during the dust bowl, it supported the economy of the communities through which it passed: populations thrived on the growing popularity of the road, and some of them fought tenaciously to keep it alive after the birth of the new Interstate Highway System, but was officially removed from the highway system in 1985, when together with the others it was replaced by the Interstate Highway System. The road currently exists under the name of historic Route 66 and is thus back on the maps in this guise.