Millions Still Taking It Easy on the Highway Mecca That Is Route 66

Cities and towns along the historic 2,228-mile highway from Chicago to Los Angeles are staging multiple events while anticipating a surge in tourism.

Passing cars are few along a stretch of historic Route 66 in the ghostly crossroads of Amboy in the Mojave Desert, about an hour north of Joshua Tree National Park. Courtesy of Tyrone Beason/Los Angeles Times/TNS

WINSLOW, Ariz.—Rebecca Houston and Deb Good drove 1,600 miles from Chicago to stand on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, along the historic Route 66.

It was the ride of a lifetime—a chance for the sisters from Missoula, Montana, to take selfies and make memories in front of a bronze statue of Glenn Frey, co-founder of the Eagles.