So that bridge you drove across is the Canyon Diablo Bridge, which was built in 1914. It predates Route 66 by 12 years, and became part of the original alignment of Route 66 when it was first commissioned in 1926. Yes, you drove on the ORIGINAL alignment of US Route 66 and drove over a bridge that I was too afraid to drive over LOL! There were actually TWO different zoos built in this area. The original zoo was the one you saw after you crossed over the bridge. This zoo was built on the original alignment of Route 66. When the Route 66 alignment was moved farther north where I-40 currently runs, the owner built a NEW zoo in order to be closer to Route 66 (where the "Mountain Lions" building is). Great video!!!
It would so cool if someone had some old film footage of that campground. What a fascinating place and I've driven by there several times and never noticed it.
husband speaking - most folks are in too much of a hurry - we pass something as we zoom past and think, maybe some day I will stop and see what that is or was. I did that several times on my way from Wash. to Calif. I took the same route, saw a small museum and thought I should stop. Finally I told my self I would and it was closed up and gone.
I went there as a child. We stayed at the RV Park. I remember the zoo. That was a long time ago. I have not thought of staying there in years. Thanks for sharing!
I believe the Apache Death cave is a natural limestone solution cave. I would love to explore it further with a bright headlamp. Great video! Thanks for sharing.
I was a teenager on a Greyhound bus the last time I went to the site Fall 1974. I wish there was a way to photograph my memories of the stop. It was pretty cool, I enjoyed the stop.
I have passed by that place many times as well. Last time I thought about stopping, but there were a couple of cars there, so I didn't. Thanks for posting this. Very interesting!
🤠 October 2021 my friend & I made a road trip from Tennessee to Albuquerque . We stopped here on our trip, what a fascinating area . I took a lot of pictures all around there . We went to Apache Death Cave & went quite a ways back in there . One of the neatest areas lve seen on a road trip . I'd ❤ to go back there . Thanx for sharing your video Jeepsy‼️😊
I've passed by there a few times and never knew there was so much there. I've looked it up, but have never had the chance to stop. Thank you for the tour very cool.
I passed by the location in 1969 the interstate was still under construction. I had absolutely no knowledge of the cave and it's First Nation connection history. Very well done WJ. As you travel through your 'journey of healing' u may find the Myers Briggs 16 personally test(free online) of interest and surprising accurate. Shalom
Very interesting history of that location. Just like around my area just loaded with history but covering a more vast area. Safe travels Sarah and little one. 😊
Hi I just came across your channel randomly and I can't stop watching. I admire what you are doing and also a little envious as well. I'm a 60 yr old man and always wanted to do a self trek. Keep up the great work and wish you well. Just subscribed !
You go wondering jeepsy F.............the haters.i thing your awsome❤,and I will always watch your content every time you come out with something new.Keep up that BEUTIFULL 😀.
Two Guns has special meaning for me. My Aunt and Uncle ran the store and gas station there in the 1940's. My mom took a photo of me in front of the store in 1948 that I still have tot his day.
Hi sarah, cool vid ive heard of that pl@ce but never been there, pretty neat history seems like being so close to 1_40 it could still be viable a lot of that happened all over when the interstates came in right here in my town the old road came right through town all the truck traffic and all, now that main drag lined with motels truckstops ect is totally bypassed by 1_10 & i_25 saw the same thing in northern part of colorado springs i guess we call that progress???thank you for the vid and hi from nm!
Ok I have been missing out. I only truly discovered You-tube videos when I purchased my new large screen Smart TV. I love it and your vlog is at the top of the list. ! As I am in Michigan you are showing me stuff I would never see. And I love it ! Thank you ☺️
As odd as it may seem, that gas station has been cleaned up some, and I'm guessing that who ever left that bed did it. I watched a video about this location sometime last year and the inside was full of broken glass, wood, etc. It's almost completely cleaned up now. Yay for the cleanup! Some of that tagging is definitely good quality but I wish it wasn't on a landmark, as unvisited as it probably is. Maybe you can buy that campground and turn it into a giant Hipcamp spot. ;-) BTW, your video was FAR better than the one I watched last year. That video was just the gas station with a tiny bit of history on Route 66. I had no idea all of that extra history was hiding right there. Thank you for your research and great video, Sarah!
@@wanderingjeepsy I know I wish I could buy it. I always wonder where all of the "historic preservation societies" are when there are so many places like this going to ruin. It seems like they're more concerned with preserving another gingerbread house in some town. I like those as well, but this is definitely classic American history rotting away. So sad.
I've seen quite a few vids from 2 Guns but yours is clearly the best and most extensive of all. I really regret that we first went through there in 1964 in its heyday and didn't stop!
My grandad used to run Two Guns when it was an active trading post and did a lot of pawn with Native Americans in silver/turquoise/Navajo blankets and rugs.
Thank you so much Sarah for taking us all these places the ones that can't get out and go and travel. I'm so grateful finding your channel since the beginning. Safe travels wherever your next awesome Adventure takes you and little one...✌❤😊
I was booked to play in a band at a small bar in Two Guns- so small we played in the parking lot. Diné and Hopi were our audience. We took a break and a young Diné guy walked up to me and said his Grampa was a Medicine Man and could make it rain. I let the old guy up to the mic, “Hey ya ya ya!” and damned if it didn’t start raining!
My cars still down. So, I've been getting rides from medical transport companies. The only way I can obtain food and meds I need is through Walmart. One of my drivers and I were talking all about this place just yesterday. Coincidence😂❤ Thanks for sharing this. Where's punkinhead?... lol. Lil One!🐕
Australia watching , reminds me of my early travelled half the Country for 30 year and then found dream place Noojee , 120 years of a logging Towns time of steam . Love all your travels. Noojee is bit different . Full of trees forest Maintains and 4 rivers and occasional Snow . Your channel is all inspirational and face says it all , living a life of adventure and awareness , stuff that money cant buy
In the series "Abandoned" the guy who hosts it is a well known skater and he did an episode where him and a friend traveled the span of route 66. I'm pretty sure he did skateboard in that pool with some locals.
Thanks Sara I've gone right by there on the way to Amarillo to visit my daughter many times but I never stopped there I always stopped at that Cadillac ranch LOL.
Great video Sarah! Next time I’m out west I definitely will check it out…also wanted to tell you that we had to put down our little girl yesterday 😞☹️ She loved watching little one, she would bark at the TV when she saw her. 😢
I stopped here for the first time on my way to New Mexico last week and took a few photos. I wanted to drive back there at night and do some Milky Way shots with the ruins in the foreground but ran short of time. Also, a little concerned about safety there after dark. Cool video!
Okay, let’s start at the beginning The Shell station at the beginning has a perfect exit from the Interstate right in front of it. Because of travel speeds and better auto mileage, it found itself in a gas dead spot and soon failed. It was never really any part of Two Guns, but it did serve as a gift shop for a while. It was the third gas station in the area. Apparently, you didn’t realize that the strip of road in front of it was the last Rt 66 alignment, and had you taken it west, it would have taken you to location of the last actual Two Guns gas station and café. The building you referred to as the “old zoo” was actually the replacement zoo, built after the original one was abandoned. This is the structure which you recognized as a zoo on the other side of the big bridge. The first round building which you encountered there was the original gas station. There was a lodge and trading post there as well, and these made up the original 1926 Route 66 Two Guns. When 66 was moved over to the other side of the canyon, Two Guns moved with it. That included the new zoo, 2nd gas station and café. NOTE that ALL of the buildings you saw were products of the Rt 66 development and none of them have any history whatsoever before 1926. The Apache Cave was set up as a tourist attraction, with some phoney stone dwellings crated inside. It’s really quite large, and you probably need to take another trip there to see it. Anyway, the Death Cave story came about many years later, having been written about in an adventure magazine. The consensus of opinion is that it’s pure myth, so you don’t have to worry about any spirits there. As most are aware the cafe/gas station/gift shop which marked the high water mark of the development were destroyed by an explosion and fire. The nearby large KOA was a dud and lost its affiliation and shut down.
Traveled that stretch n got Route 66 souvenoirs! Stopped in Williams for authentic Mexican by the "Cigar Store Indian" aka Native American art figure. Love the west 🤠
I was watching your video as you were walking around the campsite pool and you passed by that building doorway, @8:48 in the video it looked like there was someone standing in the shadow in that room. It could have been the graffiti on the wall but it was strange looking to me. I have driven past that area lots of times but never stopped to check it out. Thank you for your awesome videos!
So that bridge you drove across is the Canyon Diablo Bridge, which was built in 1914. It predates Route 66 by 12 years, and became part of the original alignment of Route 66 when it was first commissioned in 1926. Yes, you drove on the ORIGINAL alignment of US Route 66 and drove over a bridge that I was too afraid to drive over LOL!
There were actually TWO different zoos built in this area. The original zoo was the one you saw after you crossed over the bridge. This zoo was built on the original alignment of Route 66. When the Route 66 alignment was moved farther north where I-40 currently runs, the owner built a NEW zoo in order to be closer to Route 66 (where the "Mountain Lions" building is).
Great video!!!
that the rest of the story, thank you
It would so cool if someone had some old film footage of that campground. What a fascinating place and I've driven by there several times and never noticed it.
Yeah I tried to find some footage of the campground, but couldn't
There is always more history in an old town then meets the eye! I'm glad you took the time to show us around and tell the history there!
What a great place. You’re a History teacher now. 🎉
husband speaking - most folks are in too much of a hurry - we pass something as we zoom past and think, maybe some day I will
stop and see what that is or was. I did that several times on my way from Wash. to Calif. I took the same route, saw a small museum
and thought I should stop. Finally I told my self I would and it was closed up and gone.
Always passed it by, but never explored Two Guns due to my passenger car. Thanks for the tour. Lots of cool ruins to see. Thanks for a cool video.
I was there, a few years after it closed. Interesting place. I went in the cave. And yes, it felt a little spooky.
Loved those old black and whites at the end. So atmospheric. What a captivating place!
Thanks, you went into a lot more detail than I did, I only got the gas station & the KOA pool, now I guess i need to go back & see the rest!
I went there as a child. We stayed at the RV Park. I remember the zoo. That was a long time ago. I have not thought of staying there in years. Thanks for sharing!
I believe the Apache Death cave is a natural limestone solution cave. I would love to explore it further with a bright headlamp. Great video! Thanks for sharing.
I was a teenager on a Greyhound bus the last time I went to the site Fall 1974. I wish there was a way to photograph my memories of the stop. It was pretty cool, I enjoyed the stop.
That was outstanding, Sarah! Great that you were able to find pictures online to see what it looked like back then. Fascinating!
I have passed by that place many times as well. Last time I thought about stopping, but there were a couple of cars there, so I didn't. Thanks for posting this. Very interesting!
🤠 October 2021 my friend & I made a road trip from Tennessee to Albuquerque . We stopped here on our trip, what a fascinating area . I took a lot of pictures all around there . We went to Apache Death Cave & went quite a ways back in there . One of the neatest areas lve seen on a road trip . I'd ❤ to go back there . Thanx for sharing your video Jeepsy‼️😊
Excellent, well done. So much history, the ‘Apache death cave’ is disturbing , and cursed. Many horses perished also. Thank you 🤠
I've passed by there a few times and never knew there was so much there. I've looked it up, but have never had the chance to stop. Thank you for the tour very cool.
Great video, so much forgotten history. Thank you for filming. I had no idea this place existence. 😊
You have been to some very interesting places,but this one is a jewel.So very interesting! Thank you! Godspeed!
Yeah I was excited to film this place! 🙂
Really a neat place ☺ thanks for taking us along
Thank you so much. More places to visit!!
That was a kool place to explore...lots going on there over a long period of time. Great job on the video..👍
Vary good views and great quality video ❤
Love this video.great fun information 😊❤
I passed by the location in 1969 the interstate was still under construction. I had absolutely no knowledge of the cave and it's First Nation connection history. Very well done WJ. As you travel through your 'journey of healing' u may find the Myers Briggs 16 personally test(free online) of interest and surprising accurate. Shalom
Very interesting history of that location. Just like around my area just loaded with history but covering a more vast area. Safe travels Sarah and little one. 😊
Hi I just came across your channel randomly and I can't stop watching. I admire what you are doing and also a little envious as well. I'm a 60 yr old man and always wanted to do a self trek. Keep up the great work and wish you well. Just subscribed !
You go wondering jeepsy F.............the haters.i thing your awsome❤,and I will always watch your content every time you come out with something new.Keep up that BEUTIFULL 😀.
Hello Sara wonderful Sara. I’m enjoying your video right now. I have to go to work volunteer work. I’ll catch up with you later. Stay sweet Gary.
Cool pics at the end.thank you for taking us along.loved it🎉❤😊
You certainly best be careful on your own!! Thxs for sharing your adventures 😊
I went to the area two years ago with my grandson we live out on the East Coast. It was really cool. I have great photos.
Two Guns has special meaning for me. My Aunt and Uncle ran the store and gas station there in the 1940's. My mom took a photo of me in front of the store in 1948 that I still have tot his day.
You need two guns if you're going to be out there alone 😂😂
Hi sarah, cool vid ive heard of that pl@ce but never been there, pretty neat history seems like being so close to 1_40 it could still be viable a lot of that happened all over when the interstates came in right here in my town the old road came right through town all the truck traffic and all, now that main drag lined with motels truckstops ect is totally bypassed by 1_10 & i_25 saw the same thing in northern part of colorado springs i guess we call that progress???thank you for the vid and hi from nm!
Yes, you see that in the Spring, north Nevada has lots of older motels😊
I noticed the clouds really standout, beautiful. 😎
Ok I have been missing out. I only truly discovered You-tube videos when I purchased my new large screen Smart TV. I love it and your vlog is at the top of the list. ! As I am in Michigan you are showing me stuff I would never see. And I love it ! Thank you ☺️
As odd as it may seem, that gas station has been cleaned up some, and I'm guessing that who ever left that bed did it. I watched a video about this location sometime last year and the inside was full of broken glass, wood, etc. It's almost completely cleaned up now. Yay for the cleanup! Some of that tagging is definitely good quality but I wish it wasn't on a landmark, as unvisited as it probably is.
Maybe you can buy that campground and turn it into a giant Hipcamp spot. ;-)
BTW, your video was FAR better than the one I watched last year. That video was just the gas station with a tiny bit of history on Route 66. I had no idea all of that extra history was hiding right there. Thank you for your research and great video, Sarah!
If I had the $$$ I'd definitely buy this lil town! 🙂
@@wanderingjeepsy I know I wish I could buy it. I always wonder where all of the "historic preservation societies" are when there are so many places like this going to ruin. It seems like they're more concerned with preserving another gingerbread house in some town. I like those as well, but this is definitely classic American history rotting away. So sad.
Amazing video! I'm so glad you stopped to sxplore!
Wow, great find! Thanks for sharing.
I've seen quite a few vids from 2 Guns but yours is clearly the best and most extensive of all. I really regret that we first went through there in 1964 in its heyday and didn't stop!
Thank you!
That was a most excellent video. Makes me want to go to the zoo! Thank you for stopping by this old historic town and sharing with us what you found.
Very cool!
Loved to old photos you shared in the end.
Interesting area to explore! Did you get further east and “Stand on a corner in Winslow Arizona”?
Enjoy and I hope Lil One is all better. 😎
We had to pick up a hitchhiker there...just HAD TO...and he turned us on to Mesa Verde. Thanks guy standing on the corner in Winslow Arizona 😊❤
good video, thanks for taking us along :)
Ty, I'll stop soon
Wow. Very cool. Thanks for showing us
Graffiti is really cool. Great place to visit. So much incredible history.
Now I want a road trip 😮. Love to visit this place.
My grandad used to run Two Guns when it was an active trading post and did a lot of pawn with Native Americans in silver/turquoise/Navajo blankets and rugs.
Thank you so much Sarah for taking us all these places the ones that can't get out and go and travel. I'm so grateful finding your channel since the beginning. Safe travels wherever your next awesome Adventure takes you and little one...✌❤😊
I was booked to play in a band at a small bar in Two Guns- so small we played in the parking lot. Diné and Hopi were our audience. We took a break and a young Diné guy walked up to me and said his Grampa was a Medicine Man and could make it rain. I let the old guy up to the mic, “Hey ya ya ya!” and damned if it didn’t start raining!
It’s so fascinating, all the pains takings ruins everywhere left there as if it were yesterday
Thanks for showing that to us
New follower, Susie 😊❤
Wow! Incredible place. Thank you for sharing. 💕
GREAT Video -- Thanks, Sarah!!
Wow that's an amazing place thank you for sharing
Really cool this place thank you for showing us!!
My cars still down. So, I've been getting rides from medical transport companies. The only way I can obtain food and meds I need is through Walmart. One of my drivers and I were talking all about this place just yesterday. Coincidence😂❤ Thanks for sharing this. Where's punkinhead?... lol. Lil One!🐕
Australia watching , reminds me of my early travelled half the Country for 30 year and then found dream place Noojee , 120 years of a logging Towns time of steam . Love all your travels. Noojee is bit different . Full of trees forest Maintains and 4 rivers and occasional Snow . Your channel is all inspirational and face says it all , living a life of adventure and awareness , stuff that money cant buy
Cool scenery, thanks!✌🏼😃🐶
Wow that's a awesome video you done for us to really appreciate you and enjoying it ☺️💗.
Thank you!
Thank You for sharing. Hitting that spot up this Summer on Our travels.
That's an interesting and beautiful place, thanks for the video
I think you should do more cooking .i love watching people camp cooking..
You would be suprised how many people like watching people cook and eat ❤
In the series "Abandoned" the guy who hosts it is a well known skater and he did an episode where him and a friend traveled the span of route 66. I'm pretty sure he did skateboard in that pool with some locals.
Thank you so much for bringing us along, very interesting, kind of spooky and one of your best videos 😎
Been inside that gas station at the opening. And the zoo ruins were really cool!
i love to collect grafitti encounters too !!! been doin it for years
That was so interesting, been by many times; never knew: thank you Sarah😎🤩⭐️
Very interesting! If the stones could talk! Good music perfect for this video! Thanks for sharing.
im glad to see your all right after the 3 guys in the desert? be careful on the road trip there crazies out there
Best video ever!
Thank you!
Good job thank you stay safe ALL
Just found your channel. Absolutely love u❤ I'm from Baltimore and I don't ever see these sites. Thanks for the video 😊
Really wonderful to see thank you
One of your most interesting places Sarah
Very cool video! Kind of spooky!😮
Can we get an update on Lil One?
I posted an update on her on my community post 🙂 I have to take her to a veterinarian tomorrow to get her bandage off & check her paw 💜
Thanks Sara I've gone right by there on the way to Amarillo to visit my daughter many times but I never stopped there I always stopped at that Cadillac ranch LOL.
Great video Sarah! Next time I’m out west I definitely will check it out…also wanted to tell you that we had to put down our little girl yesterday 😞☹️ She loved watching little one, she would bark at the TV when she saw her. 😢
Oh no. I'm so very sorry! I hope yall are OK 💜
You done a good job filming thank you
I love to jump in my classic car and travel on route 66
Great video 👍👍
Hello thats a great adventure you told us all .p.s. Glad you found some pictures of the looks from the past at the end 🏆🤔
Awesome
I thought maybe it was just me feeling creepy things. Well I understand it now.
Very neat place
I stopped here for the first time on my way to New Mexico last week and took a few photos. I wanted to drive back there at night and do some Milky Way shots with the ruins in the foreground but ran short of time. Also, a little concerned about safety there after dark. Cool video!
That might have been the prettiest graffiti I've ever seen ❤
Okay, let’s start at the beginning The Shell station at the beginning has a perfect exit from the Interstate right in front of it. Because of travel speeds and better auto mileage, it found itself in a gas dead spot and soon failed. It was never really any part of Two Guns, but it did serve as a gift shop for a while. It was the third gas station in the area. Apparently, you didn’t realize that the strip of road in front of it was the last Rt 66 alignment, and had you taken it west, it would have taken you to location of the last actual Two Guns gas station and café. The building you referred to as the “old zoo” was actually the replacement zoo, built after the original one was abandoned. This is the structure which you recognized as a zoo on the other side of the big bridge. The first round building which you encountered there was the original gas station. There was a lodge and trading post there as well, and these made up the original 1926 Route 66 Two Guns. When 66 was moved over to the other side of the canyon, Two Guns moved with it. That included the new zoo, 2nd gas station and café. NOTE that ALL of the buildings you saw were products of the Rt 66 development and none of them have any history whatsoever before 1926. The Apache Cave was set up as a tourist attraction, with some phoney stone dwellings crated inside. It’s really quite large, and you probably need to take another trip there to see it. Anyway, the Death Cave story came about many years later, having been written about in an adventure magazine. The consensus of opinion is that it’s pure myth, so you don’t have to worry about any spirits there. As most are aware the cafe/gas station/gift shop which marked the high water mark of the development were destroyed by an explosion and fire. The nearby large KOA was a dud and lost its affiliation and shut down.
That place would be good to stop for a over night camp out ...that hold could be where Billy hide his stuff...
Awesome video keep up the good work. I may not comment a lot but I watch all your videos. I love watching your videos ❤❤❤❤😊
Traveled that stretch n got Route 66 souvenoirs! Stopped in Williams for authentic Mexican by the "Cigar Store Indian" aka Native American art figure. Love the west 🤠
This is a creepy Cool😎 video.
As always, Thumbs up!👍
British hugs to ya lady 🎉
I was watching your video as you were walking around the campsite pool and you passed by that building doorway, @8:48 in the video it looked like there was someone standing in the shadow in that room. It could have been the graffiti on the wall but it was strange looking to me. I have driven past that area lots of times but never stopped to check it out. Thank you for your awesome videos!
I enjoyed every single minute cannot wait til I can hit the road. Thank you
cool place
Thanks!
Thank you!
@@wanderingjeepsysorry it can't be more.
Good video thank you good work