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Route 66 Arizona audio tour
The Kingman to Seligman stretch of Arizona State Route 66 is the first section ever marked Historic Route 66. It follows the old US 66 alignment northeast through Hackberry and Peach Springs before it reaches Seligman. Yonder’s Guide mode tells the stories of the towns and roadside businesses along it, drawn from Wikipedia, and Ask answers questions about what you pass.
Facts checked
The road at a glance
- Runs
- Kingman to Seligman, Arizona
- First
- The first stretch signed Historic Route 66
- US 66 in Arizona
- 385.2 miles, 1926 to 1985
- Seligman
- Home of the first Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona, founded in 1987
Stories along the way
Yonder narrated these places on a simulated drive along Historic Route 66 (Kingman to Seligman), run through the same engine the app uses. Scroll to follow the car; each card names its source.
Story 1
Kingman, Arizona
Camels were part of the plan for Kingman, Arizona. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a U.S. Navy officer serving with the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, was ordered by the U.S. War Department to build a federal wagon road across the 35th parallel. His secondary orders were to test camels as pack animals in the Southwestern desert. Beale’s Wagon Road later became part of U.S. Route 66 and Interstate 40. Kingman was founded in 1882, before statehood, in Arizona Territory.
Source: WikipediaStory 2
Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In
Delgadillo’s Snow Cap Drive-In was built in 1953 by local resident Juan Delgadillo. Working on an extremely limited budget, he constructed the restaurant mostly from scrap lumber obtained from the nearby Santa Fe Railway yard. To attract attention, Delgadillo sliced the roof off a 1936 Chevrolet hardtop, then decorated the automobile with paint, horns, automotive emblems, and even an artificial Christmas tree in the rear. Delgadillo’s Snow Cap Drive-In is a historic eatery and roadside attraction along Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona.
Source: WikipediaStory 3
Seligman, Arizona
Seligman, Arizona is one of the stops on historic U.S. Route 66. Its site was on Beale’s Wagon Road and served as a stage stop on the Mojave Road. Originally, Seligman was called “Prescott Junction,” the railroad stop at the Santa Fe mainline junction with the Prescott and Arizona Central Railway Company feeder line running to Prescott, in the Arizona Territory. The original feeder line to Prescott was replaced in 1891 by the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway, with the Santa Fe mainline junction at Ash Fork instead.
Source: Wikipedia
Before you go
After Interstate 40 replaced US 66 across Arizona in the 1980s, the Kingman to Seligman road became State Route 66. Check AZ511, run by the Arizona Department of Transportation, for current conditions.
Fill the tank and pick up supplies in Kingman, the largest city on this stretch, before you head northeast. Grand Canyon Caverns, just east of Peach Springs, is among the largest dry caverns in the United States, according to Wikipedia.
Yonder or a curated tour?
Curated audio tours of Route 66 use a scripted narrator and go deep on the famous stops. Yonder covers the whole stretch and any roadside place with a documented history, and Ask answers questions as they come up. Its stories come from public sources such as Wikipedia, so they stick to documented facts.
How curated tours and Yonder differQuestions about this drive
What does Yonder narrate on Route 66 between Kingman and Seligman?
In our simulated drives at 40 to 45 mph, Guide told stories about Kingman, Delgadillo’s Snow Cap Drive-In and Seligman.
Why so few stories on this stretch?
Guide needs a documented place near the road to tell a story. In our test drives Guide found none along long parts of this stretch in the Wikipedia data it could reach, so it stayed quiet.
Can I ask Yonder about a ghost town or a building I pass?
Yes. Ask Mode answers questions such as “What was this place?” using your location and nearby public data.