Exploring Route 66 in Petrified Forest National Park
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Despite covering over 2,400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 only went through one National Park on its journey. We visited Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona on a cold and rainy late September day and explored the Painted Desert area of the park for traces of Historic Route 66. We take a look at the Route 66 monument, where the old road was, the Painted Desert Inn, and the Painted Desert Visitor Center.
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Thank you for this !! Chilling and awe inspiring to touch the ancient past.
I love your videos. I aim to watch them all. I was rasied in Northern Cailfornia but now reside in the Monterey Area. I will probably neve nake it to all the locations you go to so I enjoy allthe history of the South western parts of the US
Two iconic landmarks! We've seen areas where Route 66 passes through the Chicago suburbs, and is often still accompanied by terrific (but aging) neon signs. We need to visit the Petrified Forest, and this might be one more reason to. Great video!
Thank you. Love checking out all the old neon on Route 66 too. A little east of the park is Gallup, NM and there is a ton of great neon there too.
I wish I had taken the time to Vacation the entire length of Route 66 stopping in all the little towns! As it is I live less than a mile off Route 66 now and I've been learning about its history ever since I got here last year! So I really appreciate these Sidetrack Adventures!
Great road trip, great share - thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice visit video. I passed thru on I-40 a few times, and on family vacations on 66. Short stretches of 66 remain today where they're used as access to the towns that the Interstate bypasses. Many have early-day motels and restaurants that remind you of days gone by. And with plenty of gift shops.
Yes, there is a ton of great old motels and diners in nearby Holbrook, including a Wigwam Motel. Seeing those places make driving the old roads so much fun.
Love the cicadas and the Ver-Dee! People here in Arizona pronounce things funny. I can say that…I’m from “Preskitt.” :-)
Excellent! You show many interesting things I missed when I was there. I gotta go back to the Painted Desert -- some of the most wonderful views on the planet!
I can't wait to get back there when the weather is better.
i drove the route 66 in 1958 in a 56 chevy hardtop at 80 mi les per. there was no
interstate then. i sure like your vidieos. i am 86 years old now and live in oklahoma
My grandfather was from Oklahoma!
Just the sort of places l want to visit....at some time. Like all these vids.
Hi from tge U.K.
Thank you! Can't wait to get back to the UK.
In my top handful of national parks. It's incredible.
It's amazing to walk around and see the petrified wood and think about how it was there before the dinosaurs.
Great video 👍 The Petrified Forest is an amazing place to visit. 😃😎
Thank you. Can't wait to go back. Would love to see it with snow.
Close to here (but not inside the national park) is Dotch Winsor’s Painted Desert Trading Post. It’s a building that was restored just a few years ago by the Route 66 Association. You should visit and make a video about it.
It’s a few miles behind a locked gate, but all you have to do to gain access is to text the phone number listed on the sign at the gate and someone will text you the code for the lock.
I’ve visited it twice.
I drove through both parts of the park in 1989 the route 66 memorial wasn't there then don't remember the other shops, so I don't believe they were open the day I was there. I did talk to a Ranger in the petrified forest at the fire station.
Great video alot of great information
This is very interesting. I had no idea rt 66 went through a national park. I wished Petrified Forest did reserve the mother road; sad about that
How odd that of all the times I've been there, I've never stopped to think that it is the only National Park on Rte 66. Also, leave it to Arizona to provide you with a rare cloudy/rainy day when seeing the park. Shame that the views weren't illuminated by the sun but hey... that rain is a rarity! 😂
The weather was great until then too, but once we got to Holbrook the cold and rain found us!
Wow, we did not know that! We hope to visit Petrified Forest National Park someday! ~ Shion and Matthew
I must say, I always get excited to see when a new video of yours pops up! Love the unique videos, the research, and traveling you do for us viewers! Thank you!!
Thank you. We appreciate it.
I'm in the UK, and I literally only know about Petrified forest, and the Petrified wood, thanks to Beavis & Butthead Do America 😂
Nice informative video. But I feel the Mother Road old alignment surface should have remained at least partly in order to preserve history for future generations.
I have traveled Route 66 many times from OKC to LA, and I-40 which was boring, and tiring..
Very nice video. As usual, short and to the point. :)
Thank you, wanted to film a bit more of the park but the weather had other ideas.
The postcard at 5:48 has a car from 1963 in the center, so the photo is from that year or later. (Yeah, I'm a car nerd.)
I owe my existence to Route 66, my parents met in Barstow at a Gas Station my Father was working at in the early 50s. They both were raised near Bakersfield, my Dad worked in Mojave and was transferred to Barstow temporarily with the promise of free rent and gas. My Mothers family were coming back from Oklahoma when they met. Come to find out both my families only lived about 15 miles apart near Bakersfield. My Dad soon quit his job moved back near home just to start dating my Mom.
Me too... my parents moved from Oklahoma to LA during the depression. Mom moved in 1931 and Dad in 1934. They met in LA some years later and after Dad got his divorce
from his first wife they got married in 1948. I came around in 1952
That's a great story. Its always amazing to think about all the people who traveled Highways back then and the stories. A lot less likely something like this would happen with the interstates.
Never too poor to tour
Why would the park service spend money removing the road? Couldn't they find something more useful to do with the money?
I don't think they would have removed it now because of the significance of Route 66, but it was taken out in the 1960s.
That 99 likes dont look good, have to chance it 👍
So glad you guys do not promote appliances and solar made in communist China; products like Bluetti, for example. Beautiful channel. Love you and your dad share these experiences...
What is a bluetti ? I've never heard of it .
@@pigeonpallz1733 Bluetti is a communist Chinese appliance manufacturer that could be using slave labor (enslaved Uyghur Muslims) in the making of their appliances.
They give away their appliances to TH-camrs in order to promote them and try to hide the fact that they are made in communist China.
Bob Wells (Cheap RV Living channel), who was in the film Nomadland, is such a TH-camr who always pushes Bluetti products...
@@robbrown4621 atleast you were honest and said "could be" . If the products are not made by enslaved people then is it bad to buy ?
It's too bad foresight didn't foresee that they should have left route 66 where it was. But that's the government 🤨
Probably the most photographed Studebaker ever! Heh heh!
Been there done that. But i highly recommend not doing it in the summee when highs temps of 138 degrees. The low. Being what most people experience other places as a high.
Example my then husband and I went there. Exploring in 138 degrees. I called my sister and she was complaining about the heat thar day. I asked her what is the temp. She replied 83 degrees.
I said. That's the low for the night here lol
Used to see a bunch of petrified trees around Holbrook along the 40 but my last couple of trips thru they are gone.
Would be great to stay at the old Harvey house.
About removing the road. There are some places that it works and others where the old surface actually enhances the nature that grows on over and under it. Another great video, thank you.
Thank you for watching.
Awesome video as always. I believe the bumper on the back of the bench belongs to a ‘57 or ‘58 Cadillac. Cheers from Florida.
Thanks for the info! I couldn't tell myself and the sign didn't say.
Thanks once again Steve for your wonderful videos. As I mentioned before on another of your videos, my first road trip when I retire in about a year will be Route 66. I have you to thank for that!
I rode through there in 1970 when I moved from East coast to California. I didn’t know about the monument but the Painted Desert was beautiful