Abandoned Route 66 Arizona: Where the Road Came to an End

When Route 66 came to Arizona, the state was less than fifteen years old. But Arizona embraced the Mother Road, clinging to it long after any other state and then making sure that the world didn't forget it. Today that heritage is marked along the roadside by abandoned places which all tell a story, a narrative picked out in trading posts and motels and ordinary people. To many travelers, these stores, diners and motels were a lifeline; to the people who owned them, they were, quite simply,...