Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Trips and Adventure from the Mother Road (Backroads): Your Guide to Scenic Trips and Adventure from the Mother ... Adventure from the Mother Road (Backroads) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Only venturing away from the freeway will you find the undiscovered remnants of Route 66's legandary history, according to author Jim Hinckley. This guide to the American Mother Road is broken down into managable detaours, enabeling you to discover places where 'the neon still glows and the diners still serve apple pies with fruit picked from the orchard across the road'. Hinckley devotes time to places that are usually only driven through, including tiny mountain communities in Missouri and a remote village in Arizona where mule trains still deliver the post. Route 66's popular attractions are also covered: the Grand Canyon, cities such as San Diego and wild lfie parks. The guide's photography highlights the variety of stunning sites, from iconic Route 66 cafes and memorabilia, abandoned Texas towns to stunning waterfalls and desert landscapes. --Lonely Planet magazine, December 2008&;Stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles, the legendary Route 66 is an iconic landmark all over the world. There are Route 66 associations in more than 20 countries and its popularity now means that many of these coutries even offer Route 66 package tours. But ironically many who would seek the wonders and treasures of Route 66 miss delightful gems waiting to be uncovered just a short detour from the Main Street of America. This is a journet into the backroads along America's Main Street, expoloring the nation's past and it's natural splendours. More than a simple travel guide though, this lavishly illustrated book not only shoes Route 66 as a brdige to the past and the living time capsual that it has become, it also provides a wide array of often overlooked attractions, historic sites and scenic wonders. --MG Enthusiast;Stretching form Chicago to Los Angeles, the legendary route 66 is an iconic landmark all over the world. There are Route 66 associations in more than 20 countries and its popularity means that many of these countries now even offer Route 66 package tours. But ironically, many who seek the wonders and treasures of Route 66 miss delightfu; gems waiting to be uncovered just a short detour from the Main Street of America. More than a simple travel gudie, this lavishly illustrated book is a visual treat, sure to inspire dreams fo visiting this most famous of highways. Not only does it show Route 66 as a bridge to the past and a living time capsual, it also provides a wide array of often overlooked attractions, historic sites and scenic wonders. --Triumph World, February, 2009 For a more in-depth look at anothr classic route, Route 66 Backroads is perfect. Follow the iconic road across the USA, trversing prarie and vast plains en route --Wanderlust magazine, February, 2009&If you ever plan to motor west. Take my way that's the highway that's the best. Get your kicks on Route 66 ... A whole generation grew up with those spine-tingling lyrics to the rock song.That, and maybe Jack Kerouac's On The Road, inspired young men, and women, to go West and when they had arrived in the US seek out and travel the fabled highway.They probably know it winds from Chicago to LA - more than 2000 miles of motorway.But writer Hinckley, and three photographers, suggest here that the real American experience lies among the highways and byways just off the so-called Mother Road., or Main Street USA.In a lavishly-illustrated 200 pages, complete with helpful maps, they take the reader and traveller into places where momma still makes apple pie the American way and where new and unimagined delights await the determined explorer.Route 66 carves a giant S shape across the North American continent, from beside Lake Michigan in the North, to the shores of the Pacific in the West. Along the way it takes in familiar place names like St Louis, Oklahoma, Amarillo. --Daily Mail, February 2009This is your essential guide to 'scenic trips and adventures from the Mother Road' --Route 66 magazine, Winter 2008

For many petrolheads, Route 66 is the road trip to end all road trips. Stretching form Chicago to Santa Monica, it passes through some of the most spectacular scenery that the US has to offer. many of the older buildings and towns have now dissapeared completely, but there are still some gems to be found, especially if you travel of teh beaten track. This new title from Voyageur Press takes you on a journey throguh some of the lesser known routes as you come of the 'Mother Road'.The book has 50 different routes, stretching along the length of Route 66, beautifully captured with some breathtaking phootgraphy. Now, where's my passport and driving license? --American Cars World, Sept, 2009

I have been enjoying in the last few days a beautiful book named Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road. It was written by Jim Hinckley and features photography by Kerrick James, Rick Bowers, and Nora Mays Bowers. The title is somewhat misleading, but not in a bad way. Before looking through the book, I had assumed that it would highlight 66 sites and other places of interest nearby. While sites such as these are covered, the scenic side trips take you far away from the Mother Road, showing many of the other interesting areas within the eight Route 66 states... The photography throughout the book is stunning, and the narrative compelling. I give the book my highest praise: it makes me want to jump in the car and take a road trip-WindyCityRoadWarrior dot com--What s different about this tome: It offers 50 side strips on the road from Chicago to L.A., detours that could bring you face to face with the neon/big fins/diners/motels feeling you re looking for. If only I hadn t gotten rid of my 57 Chevy...LA Times--If you intend to explore route 66, this book will serve as a helpful guide. And even if you are not planning such a trip, the book s photographs provide a remarkable catalog of natural and manmade wonders that will hold your interest --RV Life, August 2008

This lavishly illustrated book guides the reader along iconic Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles - from the Great Lakes to the heaving Pacific Ocean, through Great Plains and high plateaus, major metropolises and remote country towns. Presenting fifty backroad journeys, this book points the way to gems beyond the tourist trail: quaint frontier communities, ancient native cultures, awe-inspiring natural wonders, and of course the small towns, service stations, eateries that operated when Route 66 was flourishing, some now revitalized, some ruined reminders of a bygone era. Find state parks, wildlife refuges, museums, historic sites, literary landmarks, and much more, all a short drive off Route 66, awaiting the traveler who is looking for more on this legendary road.Whether you are a nostalgia buff, armchair traveler, group of enthusiasts taking your cars and traveling on holiday, or simply off for a two-week family break, this book is a detailed travel guide and fascinating historic document in one volume, and bound to appeal to the legion of Route 66 fans worldwide.