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Route 66 in Arizona: Map, Towns & Things to See

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Photo: Wigwam Motel · Wikimedia Commons

Plan a trip through Arizona

The planner builds a day-by-day plan from the Arizona line (east) to the Arizona line (west) — about 394 mi.

Towns in Arizona (8)

East to west. Tap a town for its guide and stops.

Kinds of stops in Arizona

Where to eat: 5 classic diners and restaurants on or near Route 66 in Arizona. See them →

Arizona has about 400 miles of Route 66, from the Painted Desert to the Colorado River at Topock, including what is usually called the longest surviving stretch of the old road, from Seligman to Kingman. The drive climbs from desert to the pine forests around Flagstaff and Williams, then drops back into the Mojave through the Black Mountains. Our map has 114 stops in Arizona.

114 of 114 stops on the map

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What to see on Route 66 in Arizona

Near Holbrook, the Painted Desert Inn stands on the rim inside Petrified Forest National Park, and in town you can sleep in a concrete tipi at the Wigwam Motel. The Jack Rabbit Trading Post has said "HERE IT IS" since 1949, and Meteor Crater lies a short drive south of the road west of Winslow. Flagstaff has Lowell Observatory, where Pluto was found, and the cliff dwellings of Walnut Canyon. Seligman's Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In serves burgers with a side of jokes, Grand Canyon Caverns sits 210 feet underground, and the road climbs over Sitgreaves Pass to Oatman, where burros wander the main street.

By kind, our 114 Arizona stops include 36 historic buildings, 14 parks and nature spots, 9 ghost towns, 9 retro roadside stops and 8 places named for Route 66.

The road runs beside the old Santa Fe Railway, and Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams and Kingman all grew up as railroad towns before the highway came. Winslow's street corner, made famous by an Eagles song, is a popular photo stop, and Williams was the last Route 66 town to be bypassed by the interstate, in 1984.

Towns, overnight stops and how long to allow

Route 66 towns in Arizona, east to west: Holbrook, Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams, Seligman, Peach Springs, Kingman and Oatman. Holbrook, Flagstaff and Kingman have the widest choice of motels for the night; Winslow, Williams and Seligman suit a shorter day.

Allow two to three days, more if you add the Grand Canyon. The road over Sitgreaves Pass is narrow and steep with tight curves: take it slowly, and skip it with a long trailer. Summer afternoons in Kingman and Oatman are very hot, so drive that stretch early.

Best time to drive Route 66 in Arizona

Spring and fall are ideal. Flagstaff and Williams sit near 7,000 feet, so they are cool in summer and snowy in winter, while Kingman, Oatman and the river are baking hot from June to September. The Grand Canyon's South Rim is open all year.

Historic buildings in Arizona (36)

Lorenzo Hubbell Trading Post and Warehouse

Winslow, Arizona · on Route 66

A 1917 trading post building in downtown Winslow that has been put to work as the town's visitor center.

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Brannen-Devine House

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

An 1892 brick Queen Anne cottage built for a Flagstaff pioneer, a few blocks from Route 66.

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United States Post Office

Kingman, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

Kingman's first purpose-built post office, a 1935 Period Revival building with Italian touches.

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Williams Station

Williams, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

The Williams depot, southern end of the Grand Canyon Railway, steps from downtown Route 66 in Williams.

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Historic Seligman Sundries

Seligman, Arizona · on Route 66

Seligman's old Pioneer Hall: dance hall, soda fountain, then the Sundries shop, now a hot dog restaurant.

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Sultana Bar

Williams, Arizona · on Route 66

A 1912 movie theater and pool hall turned saloon on the old Route 66 in Williams, with Prohibition-era lore.

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Nature & parks in Arizona (14)

Meteor Crater

Winslow, Arizona · 5.4 mi from Route 66

A huge, remarkably well-preserved meteorite crater in the desert between Winslow and Flagstaff.

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Riordan Mansion State Historic Park

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.2 mi from Route 66

A duplex mansion built for two lumber-baron brothers, preserved as a state park in Flagstaff.

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Mount Elden

Flagstaff, Arizona · 1.3 mi from Route 66

An extinct lava dome rising above Flagstaff, laced with forest roads and hiking trails.

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Grand Canyon Caverns

Peach Springs, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A dry cave 210 feet underground just off Route 66 near Peach Springs, reached by elevator, reopened in 2025.

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Sitgreaves Pass

Oatman, Arizona · on Route 66

The steep, twisting Black Mountains summit on Route 66 between Kingman and Oatman.

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Petrified Forest National Park

Holbrook, Arizona · 2.4 mi from Route 66

Fossil wood, painted badlands and open grassland in a national park that old Route 66 once crossed.

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Retro roadside stops in Arizona (9)

Wigwam Motel

Holbrook, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

Fifteen concrete teepees from 1950 in Holbrook, AZ, still rented out to Route 66 travelers by one family.

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Cool Springs Station

Golden Valley, Arizona · on Route 66

A 1920s stone gas station on the Oatman mountain road, blown up for a movie and rebuilt from old photos.

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Copper Cart

Seligman, Arizona · on Route 66

A 1952 Seligman restaurant turned gift shop, its tall Copper Cart sign still standing on Route 66.

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Historic Route 66 Motel

Seligman, Arizona · on Route 66

A 1950 motel on Route 66 in Seligman, built as the Navajo Motel, next door to the Roadkill Cafe.

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Rusty Bolt

Seligman, Arizona · on Route 66

A Seligman souvenir and biker shop on Route 66, with dressed-up mannequins posed on its roof.

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Meteor City

Meteor City, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A Route 66 stop that began as a 1938 gas station, now a geodesic dome shop with a dinosaur drive-thru.

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Ghost towns in Arizona (9)

Brigham City

Brigham City, Arizona · 1.4 mi from Route 66

The walled remains of an 1876 Mormon farming colony on the Little Colorado River, just north of Winslow.

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Canyon Diablo

Canyon Diablo, Arizona · 3.1 mi from Route 66

A railroad camp from 1880 with a wild reputation, now foundations, one grave and old bridge footings.

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Twin Arrows

Twin Arrows, Arizona · on Route 66

An abandoned Route 66 trading post east of Flagstaff, named for the giant wooden arrows planted beside it.

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Hackberry

Hackberry, Arizona · 0.4 mi from Route 66

A tiny, near-empty community on the old road northeast of Kingman, counted among Arizona's ghost towns.

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Oatman

Oatman, Arizona · on Route 66

A former gold camp in the Black Mountains that Route 66 still runs straight through.

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Two Guns

Two Guns, Arizona · on Route 66

A long-closed tourist stop on the rim of Canyon Diablo that faded once the interstate carried traffic past.

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Route 66 sites in Arizona (8)

Jack Rabbit Trading Post

Joseph City, Arizona · on Route 66

The yellow HERE IT IS sign and a big fiberglass jackrabbit have greeted Route 66 drivers since 1949.

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Urban Route 66, Williams

Williams, Arizona · on Route 66

Williams' main street is still lined with 1920s–1940s motels, gas stations and restaurants on old Route 66.

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Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In

Seligman, Arizona · on Route 66

Juan Delgadillo's 1953 joke-filled burger stand on Route 66 in Seligman, built from railroad scrap lumber.

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Arizona State Route 66

Peach Springs, Arizona · 0.2 mi from Route 66

The state-run stretch of old U.S. 66 in northern Arizona, a road first mapped as an early auto trail.

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Seligman

Seligman, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

The small railroad town where the fight to save Route 66 began, with a walkable main street of old stops.

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Winona

Winona, Arizona · on Route 66

The Arizona stop named in the Route 66 song, about 13 miles east of Flagstaff, with a trading post by I-40.

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Route 66 PulloutHolbrook
Angel & Vilma's Original Route 66 Gift ShopSeligman

Historic districts in Arizona (7)

Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District

Holbrook, Arizona · 0.4 mi from Route 66

Richard Neutra's 1960s modernist headquarters for Petrified Forest National Park.

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La Posada Historic District

Winslow, Arizona · on Route 66

A Spanish Colonial Revival landmark district on Winslow's stretch of Route 66, with a hotel and restaurant.

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Railroad Addition Historic District

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

Downtown Flagstaff blocks of brick and stone where the Santa Fe railway and Route 66 meet.

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Williams Historic Business District

Williams, Arizona · on Route 66

Four blocks of vernacular storefronts where the railroad, Route 66 and the Grand Canyon road meet.

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Seligman Commercial Historic District

Seligman, Arizona · on Route 66

Seligman's historic main street, a small Route 66 town listed on the National Register as a district.

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Kingman Commercial Historic District

Kingman, Arizona · on Route 66

Two blocks of old hotels, a railroad depot and early storefronts along Kingman's stretch of the old road.

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Historic hotels in Arizona (7)

Arizona Rancho

Holbrook, Arizona · 0.2 mi from Route 66

An 1880s home turned boarding house, hotel and motel, believed to be Holbrook's oldest standing building.

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Painted Desert Inn

Holbrook, Arizona · 1.6 mi from Route 66

A 1937 Pueblo Revival lodge on the rim of the Painted Desert, now a National Historic Landmark.

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Weatherford Hotel

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A downtown Flagstaff hotel opened by John W. Weatherford in 1897, one block from Route 66.

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Hotel Monte Vista

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A historic downtown Flagstaff hotel a short walk from Route 66, set among the old railroad-era blocks.

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Durlin Hotel

Oatman, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A 1924 adobe hotel from Oatman's gold era, the county's only two-story adobe building.

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Aztec Motel

Seligman, Arizona · on Route 66

A small 1950s motel wrapped around a 1915 guest house, right across the street from Delgadillo's Snow Cap.

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Cottage HotelSeligman

Archaeological sites in Arizona (7)

Flattop Site

Holbrook, Arizona · 2.4 mi from Route 66

A pit-house village site inside Petrified Forest National Park, lived in during the first centuries AD.

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Puerco Ruin and Petroglyphs

Holbrook, Arizona · 4.3 mi from Route 66

The largest known archeological site in Petrified Forest National Park: a pueblo of more than 100 rooms.

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Homolovi State Park

Winslow, Arizona · 1.2 mi from Route 66

Over 300 ancestral Hopi village sites just north of Winslow, with trails, exhibits and a campground.

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Walnut Canyon National Monument

Flagstaff, Arizona · 2.7 mi from Route 66

A short trail drops into a Flagstaff canyon past cliff dwellings built by the Sinagua people.

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Winona Site

Winona, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A National Historic Landmark site near Flagstaff that reveals how life changed after Sunset Crater erupted.

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Elden Pueblo

Doney Park, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A prehistoric trading village below Mount Elden, where macaw bones from Mexico were found.

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Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological DistrictHolbrook

Art & landmarks in Arizona (6)

Lowell Observatory

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.7 mi from Route 66

The Flagstaff observatory where Pluto was found in 1930, with a working 1896 telescope for public viewing.

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Braeside Observatory

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.5 mi from Route 66

A small private observatory west of Flagstaff with a 16-inch telescope run by remote computer control.

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Robotic Lunar Observatory

Flagstaff, Arizona · 1.3 mi from Route 66

A NASA-funded Flagstaff observatory that used the Moon to calibrate instruments on Earth-orbiting satellites.

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United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station

Flagstaff, Arizona · 0.7 mi from Route 66

The Navy's dark-sky telescope station west of Flagstaff, whose plates revealed Pluto's moon Charon in 1978.

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Anderson Mesa Station

Flagstaff, Arizona · 7.7 mi from Route 66

Lowell Observatory's dark-sky research station on a remote mesa southeast of Flagstaff.

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Standin' on the Corner Park

Winslow, Arizona · on Route 66

A small Winslow park built around the song Take It Easy, with a mural, a bronze statue and a flatbed Ford.

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Museums in Arizona (6)

Museum of Northern Arizona

Flagstaff, Arizona · 2.5 mi from Route 66

Founded in 1928, this Flagstaff museum holds Native art and natural history of the Colorado Plateau.

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Poozeum

Williams, Arizona · on Route 66

A quirky Williams museum of fossilized dinosaur dung, including a record-setting specimen nicknamed Barnum.

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Arizona State Railroad Museum

Williams, Arizona · 0.4 mi from Route 66

A Williams nonprofit working to save Arizona's historic railroad equipment beside the Grand Canyon Railway.

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Bonelli House

Kingman, Arizona · 0.2 mi from Route 66

A 1915 house turned museum on a downtown Kingman corner, just off the old road.

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Mohave Museum of History and Arts

Kingman, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

Kingman's museum of northwestern Arizona history and art, run by the county historical society.

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Pete's Route 66 Gas Station Museum

Williams, Arizona · on Route 66

A restored 1949 gas station in downtown Williams, filled with pumps, signs and oil cans.

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Historic bridges in Arizona (5)

Querino Canyon Bridge

Gallup, New Mexico · 0.2 mi from Route 66

A historic bridge where Old Route 66 crosses Querino Canyon, southwest of Houck in Apache County, Arizona.

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Sanders Bridge

Sanders, Arizona · 0.2 mi from Route 66

A 1923 steel truss bridge spanning the Puerco River close to Sanders, Arizona.

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Allentown Bridge

Allentown, Arizona · 0.6 mi from Route 66

A 1923 truss bridge over the Puerco River near Houck, Arizona, still standing though showing its age.

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Canyon Diablo Bridge

Winslow, Arizona · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A 1915 bridge that once took Route 66 across Canyon Diablo, now abandoned beside the Two Guns site.

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Chevelon Creek Bridge

Winslow, Arizona · 3.5 mi from Route 66

A rare steel pony truss bridge from Arizona's first years of statehood, on the old Holbrook–Winslow road.

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Route 66 in Arizona: questions

Is the Grand Canyon on Route 66?

No, but it is close. Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim is about 60 miles north of Williams, and many drivers spend a night in Williams or Flagstaff to fit it in.

Is Sedona on Route 66?

No. Sedona is about 30 miles south of Flagstaff down Oak Creek Canyon on State Route 89A, a popular half-day side trip from the road.

How many miles of Route 66 are in Arizona?

About 400 miles, depending on which of the road's alignments you follow. The whole road, from Chicago to Santa Monica, is about 2,448 miles long.

What towns does Route 66 go through in Arizona?

The main stops, east to west, are Holbrook, Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams, Seligman, Peach Springs, Kingman and Oatman. Smaller places on the road include Joseph City, Winona, Ash Fork, Peach Springs, Hackberry and Topock.

Can you still drive Route 66 in Arizona?

Yes. Most of the old road is open, and the stretch from Seligman to Kingman is one of the longest you can drive without rejoining the interstate. The section from Kingman over Sitgreaves Pass to Oatman and Topock is paved but narrow and winding.