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| Above, The Beast at the Elk City/Clinton KOA on Route 66 in Elk City, Oklahoma. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Five years ago, I took a three-week vacation trip to Metropolis, Illinois (the home of Superman) to attend a memorial service for actress Noel Neill.
The route generally took me along Interstate 40 until I reached Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to get on Interstate 44 to Tulsa. Before heading to Tulsa, I spent a night at the Elk City/Clinton (Oklahoma) KOA Kampground which is on Route 66 in Elk City. There's a Route 66 museum in Clinton, Oklahoma, but I left the area before it opened.
Historic Route 66 cuts through Tulsa and the city is active paying homage to the "Mother Road" with historic and new attractions.
Travel Awaits has an article on the Route 66 things to see and do in Tulsa.
They begin it with:
Whether you use a nickname — like the Mother Road or Main Street of America — or refer to it by its given name, Route 66 is arguably the most famous highway in the United States. One of the nation’s first interstate roads, Route 66 arced southward through eight states and crossed three time zones connecting Chicago and Santa Monica.
In Oklahoma, Route 66 enters the Sooner State in its upper northeastern corner near Joplin, Missouri. Stretching more than 400 miles, the route divides the Cherokee Nation from the Osage Reservation as it races through the heavily wooded Ozark mountains toward tallgrass prairies and the Texas Panhandle, connecting Tulsa and Oklahoma City. But Oklahoma is more than roughly the midpoint of the journey along Route 66. It is also where Oklahoma businessman Cy Avery (also known as the Father of Route 66) conjured up the concept of the Main Street of America.
While many sites along Route 66 have long been abandoned, Tulsa has worked hard to restore historical gems as well as to build new sites that pay homage to the Mother Road. These are the can’t-miss places you’ll want to explore along Route 66 in Tulsa.
To see what Tulsa has to offer on Route 66, go here.
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