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.

If you wish to purchase your own copy of the EZ Guide, please go here.

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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manor motel near Joliet on Apr 22, 2021 at 4:18:53 pm [Print]
Manor Motel (IL page-6). I got a bad report. be sure to check the rooms first. And don't let a bad motel scare you off from staying at the MANY great vintage motels along 66!!! For example the nearby Braidwood Motel (near the Polka Dot in braidwood) is good.

OKLAHOMA HISTORIC 66 SIGN ALERT on Apr 12, 2021 at 6:15:51 pm [Print]
For now IGNORE any Oklahoma Historic 66 sign that direct you from the directions in the EZ 66 guide onto sections of I-44 and I-40 in Oklahoma! These misleading signs will soon be removed.
Examples: I-44 thru Tulsa. I-40 west of the Ft Reno turnoff (west of El Reno) and I-40 at Hinton Jct near Bridgeport.
Don't just blindly follow any H-66 sign you see in any state. Check the book directions if in doubt.

Manor Motel il page 6 on Apr 12, 2021 at 6:09:53 pm [Print]
Got this bad report in recently: Be advised to check it out first. If I get more I will remove it." (update: got another bad report.)

I strongly urge you to remove Manor Motel (IL page-6). I looked it up, there weren't any bad reviews, but it was horrible. And that was our first hotel enroute. Needless to say my husband insisted on staying at regular chain hotels after that experience. I wouldn't have even known about that place if I had not seen it in your book. Again, I know it was my decision, however I feel so strongly that you should remove it. I have since left a review on google along with pictures (Travelsalot1988) if you want to see them. I just wanted to pass this along to you.

Eat Rite closed on Dec 19, 2020 at 1:06:10 am [Print]
it has been reported that the Eat Rite diner in downtown ST Louis has closed permanently (MO page-4)

A new restaurant has opened in the old Eat Rite. new name and menu. I am waiting to see how it goes.

OK page 21 and 20 (Oklahoma City EB EASTBOUND) on Nov 27, 2020 at 5:35:35 pm [Print]
Well, now you are not supposed to exit directly from I-44 eastbound onto May Ave. There is a solid white line. A sign BEFORE you "merge(es)onto I-44 East" informs you that you must use NW 36th St to reach May Ave. Just follow the signs curve right towards West I-44, which takes you to a stoplight at 36th. Turn left, cross I-44 and head to May Ave. You don't need to get on I-44...that happens AFTER the NW 36th intersection.

MO page 19 on Oct 28, 2020 at 8:31:24 pm [Print]
Lisa also reminded me about the new traffic circle at the JCT of CC and Hwy 38. And past this (EB eastbound)new construction calls for a right to remain on CC eastbound. In the near future Hwy CC will NOT reach the traffic circle at Hwy 38 turn, but you will join CC EB at the above mentioned right turn...not sure what they will call the old section of former Hwy CC in Marshfield yet...sheesh. (Former CC to Marshfield is now "Hubbel Drive)

HOUSE CLEANING on Oct 24, 2020 at 4:26:18 pm [Print]
I just read back thru the updates to the start of the 2nd edition! A lot changed since then...good and bad. I removed some duplicate and "no longer in effect" entries and updated others. If you have the 4th Edition you only need go back as far as the end of 2015 (some "on paper" updates since then). But I left important entries for the second and third versions. And there is one long entry that covers earlier updates.

bumping to the top again on Oct 24, 2020 at 4:22:06 pm [Print]
Gasconade river bridge MO page-17: You can now drive old 66 between exit 145 and exit 140 east of Lebanon. A new outer road bridge has been opened, bypassing the closed and endangered 1923 Gasconade river bridge. You do NOT have to "JOIN I-40 WEST or EAST anymore. There is a side road that will let you get closer to the old bridge. B
MO page 23 on Jul 13, 2019 at 9:44:08 am [remove] - [edit] [Print] Just a reminder that since the last edition Gay Parita has indeed been reopened by the late Gary Turner's daughter Barb and her husband George. Good folks!




Mesita to Laguna NM on Oct 21, 2020 at 11:57:32 pm [Print]


This road from exit 117 past owl rock to LAGUNA is apparantly OPEN again. Don't venture off the pavement or get out to explore.

Vinita Oklahoma on Oct 19, 2020 at 11:16:56 pm [Print]
Had a bad report today on the Relax Inn in Vinita. Bad customer relations.