Texas Route 66 - Traveling the Mother Road in Texas

LEGENDARY ROUTE 66

Texas Route 66 Main Page

The stretch of Texas Route 66 provides not only a number of vintage Mother Road icons as you travel across the "Staked Plains" of the Texas Panhandle, but, also glimpses of the Wild Wild West.

Closely following Interstate 40, more than 150 miles of the original 178 miles of the old road still remain. The only sections of original Route 66 not available are between Jericho and Alanreed and Adrian to Glenrio. Otherwise, Route 66 still exists even with original concrete paving in many spots.

Enjoy the journey across the Lone Star State.

Greetings from Texas Postcard

About Route 66 Through Texas

Westbound on Route 66:

Shamrock - Texas Main Street City

McLean - Where Time Stands Still

Alanreed to Britten - Gone Are The Glory Days

Groom & Conway - Life after the Jericho Gap

Amarillo Air Force Base and Airport

Amarillo - Panhandle Cowtown

Cadillac Ranch

Ghostly Amarillo Natatorium

Quirky Amarillo

Bushland and Wildorado - Skeletons Along the Staked Plains

Vega - Prairie Town in the Panhandle

Adrian - Midpoint USA

Glenrio - A Route 66 Casualty

Texas Mother Road Photo Gallery

Shamrock to McLean

Alanreed to Conway

Amarillo

Beyond to New Mexico

Tower Station and U-Drop Inn, Kathy Weiser, August, 2007.

This image available for photographic prints and downloads HERE!

Britten, USA water tower just west of Alanreed on I-40,

August, 2007, Kathy Weiser

This image available for photographic prints

and downloads HERE!

The sun has riz,

The sun has set,

And here we is

In Texas yet.

-- Tom Snyder, Route 66

Traveler's Guide

About Texas 66

Return to Route 66

To Oklahoma 66

From the Rocky Mountain General Store

Route 66 Postcards - Legends of America and the Rocky Mountain General Store has collected numerous postcards for our Route 66 enthusiasts. For many of these, we have only one available. To see this varied collection, click HERE!