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Centennial · 1926 – 2026

GET YOUR KICKS

Plan the Mother Road
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The overview

What this becomes.

The goal

Get Your Kicks is the Route 66 trip planner inside Americana Century. The aim is simple and hard: turn the entire roadside — diners, motor courts, roadside giants, neon, natural wonders — into a real, routable, day-by-day drive you can actually take. Not a paper map. Not a list. A living plan.

It runs the Scenario lens on the Habitus engine: search the corridor, sequence the stops sensibly, and route them for real — every place a verified record, not a hardcoded pin.

Where it is today

Pick your start and end below and the map shows every Route 66 stop worth pulling over for along that stretch — filter by what you're into, with live counts. When you're ready for the day-by-day drive — real road times, pacing, weather on arrival — take it to the planner. Live search and the full verified dataset keep filling in, mile by mile.
Plan the trip

Where are you headed?

Pick your ends — the map shows every Route 66 stop worth pulling over for along the way. Filter by what you're into. Ready for the day-by-day drive? Take it to the planner.

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The whole road

Not just neon.

Route 66 is the entire roadside — the kitsch, the grand, the delicious. Neon is one chapter, and it has its own home next door.

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Diners & Cafés

Chrome counters, blue-plate specials, pie that's worth the detour.

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Motor Courts

Wigwams, teepees, and tidy little cabins from the golden age of the road trip.

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Roadside Giants

The Gemini Giant, the Blue Whale — muffler men and oversized everything.

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Natural Wonders

The Painted Desert, Meteor Crater, canyon country off the shoulder.

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Photo Ops

Shields painted on the asphalt, ghost-town gas stations, the end-of-road sign.

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Obsessed with the neon?

The signs deserve their own lens — every one, across a century, lit / restored / moved / gone.

Go to Echoes in Neon →
Why now

The road turns 100.

Route 66 was commissioned in 1926. In 2026 the whole country is looking down the Mother Road again — and it deserves a planner that's alive, not a paper map. This is that, built in the open.