Bearizona Wildlife Park
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Bearizona is a popular family-friendly stop approximately 30 miles west of Flagstaff and located on historic Route 66 in Williams, Arizona.
Category Archives: Explore Route 66
Sleep in a Teepee on Route 66!
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After a long day of exploring California’s historic Route 66, the cone shaped lodgings rising from the palm tree surrounded property are a welcome sight. Since 1949, the Wigwam Motel in San Bernardino County offers explorers a chance to sleep in a teepee on Route 66.
Meteor Crater
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Arizona Route 66 Side Trip to Meteor Crater Fifty thousand years ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky and crash landed into the desert that is now northern Arizona. Over fifty years ago, NASA used this same spot as one of its lunar training sites. What is this place? If you guessed Barringer’s […]
Calico Ghost Town
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California Route 66 Side Trip Calico Ghost Town, located in San Bernardino County, is a great Route 66 side trip. A visit to Calico is also a fun day trip if you are already in southern California. Originally established in 1881, Calico is an old West mining town that has been around since the largest silver […]
Uncharted Territory: The Harvey Girls
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Help wanted – single young women, 21 to 30 years of age, of good character, attractive and intelligent, to be waitresses in Harvey Eating Houses on the Santa Fe Railroad in the West. Good wages, with room and meals furnished. Experience not necessary. For nearly a century starting in the late 1880s, more than 100,000 […]