{"id":66,"date":"2015-07-24T00:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-01-11T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:14:19","slug":"route-66_mo-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/route-66_mo-az\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 66 through MM, KS, OK, TX, NM and part of AZ (Long way home from the BBQ run)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Overview:<\/h3>\n
Distance:<\/strong>\u00a0approx 3000 miles
\nTime: <\/strong>5-8 Days<\/p>\n
This ride is a multi-day extension of the Iron-Butt BBQ Run<\/a>, that covers the lower mid-west of Historic Route-66. \u00a0It really is the long way home from\u00a0Kansas City, MO: \u00a0Continuing east to south St Louis in order to travel westward through Missouri, south east Kansas, Oklahoma, north Texas, New Mexico, and most of Arizona (Flagstaff). \u00a0The north across the Navajo Reservation into Utah. \u00a0 Last took this trip in \u00a0July 2015, in 5 days.<\/p>\n

Route:<\/h3>\n
Leg 1 (1,070 miles): Follow the Iron-Butt BBQ Run<\/a> to Arthur Bryant\u2019s Barbeque<\/a> in Kansas City, MO<\/h4>\n
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Leg 2 (267 miles): Arthur Bryant\u2019s to Ted Drewes\u2019 Custard stand<\/h4>\n
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Starting at Arthur Bryant\u2019s Barbeque (1727 Brooklyn Ave, Kansas City, MO 64127)<\/li>\n
Take Brooklyn Ave to I-70 East<\/li>\n
Follow I-70 East to Columbia (about 2 Hours)\u2026 If you did he all nighter to Arthur Bryant\u2019s, you may want to get a hotel in Columbia and have Mid-America Harley change out your oil.<\/li>\n
Continue on I-70 E to Exit 128A (Jefferson City)<\/li>\n
Follow US-54 W\/US-63 S to US-50 E<\/li>\n
US-50 E to I-44 E<\/li>\n
Exit 284A (Jamieson Ave)<\/li>\n
Jamieson Ave to Chippewa St (Old RT 66)<\/li>\n
Ted Drewes\u2019 Frozen Custard stand is at 6726 Chippewa St, St Louis, MO 63109<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Leg 3 (120 Miles): Drewes\u2019 to Devils Elbow (Exit 169 I-44)<\/h4>\n
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Note: Essentially RT 66 was replaced with I-44; get yourself a good RT 66 guide and map<\/p>\n
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Follow I-44 taking the parts of Old Rt 66 that interest you. Stops to be sure and see:\n
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Meramec Caverns<\/a> (Stanton)<\/li>\n
Bourbon, MO \u2013 Water Tower<\/li>\n
Carr Phillips 66 Station in Cuba, MO<\/li>\n
Fanning 66 Outpost World\u2019s (largest rocking chair; if you\u2019re into kitsch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
$\"bourbon\"$ <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 $\"Carr66cuba\"$ <\/a>
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Leg 4 (231 miles): Devils Elbow to Joplin<\/h4>\n
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Exit I-44 at Exit 169;<\/li>\n
Follow old RT 66 through Hooker Cut<\/li>\n
Continue on RT 66 (the Tear Drop Road Section) to the Elbow Inn Bar & BBQ<\/li>\n
Cross the bridge (nest to the Elbow Inn)<\/li>\n
Continue on Old Rt 66 \/ I-44 through Lebanon, Springfield.<\/li>\n
Exit I-44 at Exit 57; taking Route 66 through Carthage to Joplin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
$\"elbowinn\"$ <\/a> \u00a0 $\"devil-elbow\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n
If you stayed the night in Columbia, you will need a long summer day to\u00a0get to Joplin.
\nDon\u2019t go father than Joplin as there are not too many hotels in the KS\/OK Leg of the trip.<\/p>\n
Leg 5 (490 miles): Kansas \/ Oklahoma \/ Amarillo by dark:<\/h4>\n
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Leave Joplin on West 7th Street (RT 66) continuing on RT 66 across the KS state line<\/li>\n
Stop at the Stateline Bar
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Ride on to Galena, KS ..Do not miss \u201c Tow-Mater<\/a>\u201c, the inspiration for Mater, the tow truck in the Disney\/Pixar movie Cars.
\n $\"to-mater\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Continue on to the Rainbow Bridge in Riverton, KS<\/li>\n
Ride on to the Route 66 Visitors\u2019 Center<\/a> in Baxter Springs
\n $\"p-66\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Follow RT 66 into Oklahoma and on to Miami, OK \u2026 You simply must stop at the Vintage Motorcycle Museum<\/a> (128 S. Main, Miami, OK 74354)
\n $\"vintageMotorcycle\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
After the Vintage Motorcycle Museum, I like to ride like hell to get to Amarillo by dark ( mainly stay on I-44 and I-40).<\/li>\n
There are some Rt 66 things you might want to see, but for me the only items are:\n
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Stop for a drink at Pops in Arcadia, OK
\n $\"pops2\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
The leaning water tower (Britten Water Tower) at Groom TX is worth a picture from the highway<\/li>\n
Stop for a great steak at the Big Texan Steak Ranch<\/a> (7701 I-40 East, Amarillo, Texas)
\nI also like spend the night in Amarillo<\/li>\n
On your way out of Amarillo on I-40 you may want to stop at Cadillac Ranch (you\u2019ll go by it and exit just west of it, as you can only access the site from I-40 East \u2026 also lots of mud)
\n $\"11760167_10206875305622174_7666183534984414909_n\"$ <\/a>
\n\u2026 IMHO skip it in favor of \u201c Carhenge<\/a>\u201d in Nebraska<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Leg 6 (496 miles): Amarillo through Sante Fe to Gallup<\/h4>\n
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\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Take I-40 West across TX, IMHO, not much to see \u2026Take a trip to Austin and San Antonio through Big Bend if you want to see some Texas.<\/li>\n
Continue on I-40 to Tucumcari, NM Plan on an extended stop in Tucumcari, as it has all the kitsch you could want for a RT 66 trip.<\/li>\n
Keep riding on West on I-40; unless you want to take the old old RT 66 through Santa Fe (I would as it is the scenic route, but it is the very long way around).<\/li>\n
Use exit 256 (To Las Vegas, NM)<\/li>\n
Take US-84 North to I-25 at I-25 exit 319<\/li>\n
Stay on I-25 (unless your RT 66 guidebook has convinced you to stop and see something) through Sante Fe and on to Albuquerque<\/li>\n
Exit I-25 in Albuquerque on to I-40 West.\u00a0(Warning: Bugs, don\u2019t take a wrong turn in Albuquerque)<\/li>\n
Take I-40 West to Grants (they have a great bike week in Grants<\/a>)<\/li>\n
Continue on I-40 to Gallup, NM<\/li>\n
(if it is getting late, you may want to spend the night in Gallup; I generally stay in Winslow, AZ, but Winslow is another 128 miles )<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Leg 7 (182 miles): Gallup through Winslow and Flagstaff<\/h4>\n
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Continue west on I-40; watch your gas.
\nSome stops to consider:\n
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Lupton, great south west tourist trap stores<\/li>\n
Petrified Forest National Park<\/a> (real Road Runner\/Coyote scenery)<\/li>\n
Stop in Holbrook to see the Wigwam Motel<\/a> (need reservation way in advance to stay here)
\n $\"11057267_10206880128102733_7762249170664725532_n\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Jackrabbit Trading Post, great south west tourist trap store<\/li>\n
Winslow (there is corner here) and the\u00a0 La Posada Hotel<\/a>\u2013 303 E 2nd St, Winslow, AZ 86047 (pricey\u2026this is where I like to stay, but the Quality Inn has also been good to me).
\n $\"LaPosada\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Meteor Crater<\/a>, about six miles south of I-40 (lots of signs)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
Exit I-40 at Flagstaff<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Leg 8: Flagstaff to Big Rock Candy Mountain (great scenery, not much gas)<\/h4>\n
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From Flagstaff take US-89 North through the Navajo Reservation to Bitter Springs<\/li>\n
Take US-89A through Jacob Lake to Fredonia\/Kanab<\/li>\n
Rejoin US-89 North at Kanab<\/li>\n
Continue North on US-89 to Mt Carmel Junction (stop for Gas and some HO-made Pie, just do it!)
\n $\"ho-madepie\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Follow US-US-89 North to Big Rock Candy Mountain.
\n $\"BRcandyMT\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Leg 9 (185 to 215 miles): Big Rock Candy Mountain to Salt Lake (blast on home)<\/h4>\n
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Continue on US-89 to I-70. Then you have a choice:\n
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Take I-70 West to Cove Fort and I-15 North to Salt Lake (215 miles)
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Take I-70 East to Salina, the US-89 North to , then UT-28 North to Nephi, and join I-15 North to Salt Lake (185 miles).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Overview: Distance:\u00a0approx 3000 miles Time: 5-8 Days This ride is a multi-day extension of the Iron-Butt BBQ Run, that covers the lower mid-west of Historic Route-66. \u00a0It really is the long way home from\u00a0Kansas City, MO: \u00a0Continuing east to south St Louis in order to travel westward through Missouri, south east Kansas, Oklahoma, north Texas, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-rides","category-route-66","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brummett.info\/biker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}