EZ UPDATES

For readers of the EZ 66 Guide for Travelers, I have provided free online updates to help keep your Route 66 experience as current as possible. As you might imagine, Route 66 is constantly undergoing changes, some good, others not so. Businesses open and close, roads are re-routed and street names change.

Please check back here just before your trip for the latest info. Entries are dated as to when they were added.

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EZ 66 readers have been helpful in keeping me keep the guidebook updated in between my own road trips, so if you discover something that needs to be addressed while on your journey, please let me know!

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Dirt 66 sections on Jun 18, 2017 at 3:21:41 pm [Print]
Tim also related his experience with some sections of Dirt 66 in NM and AZ becoming somewhat rough after heavy rains. This is to be expected, but usually the roads are smoothed out again.

MO page-15 on Apr 29, 2017 at 8:20:52 pm [Print]
There is now a ROUNDABOUT at the JCT of 66 and HWY T on the west side of Waynseville MO.

MO page-13 on Apr 29, 2017 at 7:54:25 pm [Print]
WestBound (WB) into Rolla from HWY V: a new connection to County Rd 2000 was scheduled to have been built before now. This will connect the through EZ TOUR route to the section of CO RD 2000 labeled "Dead end 66" on the map.

BTW...ignore the "OPTIONAL" label on that map. It was an option but I changed it back to the main route...but forgot to remove the caption! LOL

Anyway, you'll be able to follow this new connection along the updated 66, or hopefully stay on the original 66 (CO 2020) as in the tour directions. Goes for EASTBOUND too. The new route connects to the old at both ends so no worries.

IL page 5 on Apr 17, 2017 at 2:16:31 pm [Print]
Posted by: Dave on 1 - Apr 12, 2017 at 2:54:29 am The Route 66 Museum in Berwyn appears to be permanently closed. Nothing is inside and a rental space sign is out front.

frontage roads on Mar 22, 2017 at 2:41:24 pm [Print]
Also a reminder that the term "frontage road" (or "Outer Road" in MO) refers to a section of road that mostly parallels the interstate highway. Often 66 will come close to the freeway, serve as a frontage road, and then veer away. If you follow the directions you should have no problems.

MO highway designations on Mar 22, 2017 at 2:38:44 pm [Print]
I want to bump this post up to the top as there has been confusion in the past.

I've gotten a couple of emails about all those funny sets of letters ("FF" "AT" "Z" etc) on the Missouri maps and directions.
Its not a secret code...this is how Missouri designates certain supplementary or secondary roads in their state! So the "ZZ" on a map is "Highway ZZ".
So where you see a letter in a circle on a map, or "Hwy F" (for example) in the directions, just look for those letters on a sign.

Updates on Mar 22, 2017 at 2:34:30 pm [Print]
I just scrolled thru the updates below, and removed a few that no longer apply. But I am leaving most of the updates prior to the introduction of the 4th edition (November 2015), as they still apply to earlier editions.

NM page 28 on Mar 01, 2017 at 11:53:41 pm [Print]
This is just a minor set of two fingered typos...but I want to correct what reader Dan pointed out to me today!

Where it says HWY 566 in the WB directions and in the side trip, substitute HWY 556. The map on the right side is correct!

MO page 15 on Feb 12, 2017 at 10:44:40 pm [Print]
Traffic circle fever strikes again! A new one is being built on the west side of Waynseville at the intersection of County T and Hwy 17 (BL 44).

CA page-19 on Dec 18, 2016 at 9:18:34 pm [Print]
If you visit Route 66 Trailhead Park, the short bit of original pavement is between the parking lot and the overpass. There is an informative sign there, but the date of paveing given as "1941" is an unfortunate typo...it should be 1914.