Hungry yet? The perfect roadside restaurant awaits. Want more? About a half hour away is Combine City, a colorful spoof on Cadillac Ranch only using, you guessed it, tractors. The work of San Francisco-based art collective Ant Farm, this Route 66 collection of spray-painted vintage Cadillacs nosediving straight into the mud is probably the most famous public art installation in America, and only about 15 minutes west of downtown Amarillo. Made famous as the inspiration for Flo’s V-8 Cafe in the Pixar film Cars, here you can snap a selfie in front of the diner (and brag to friends that you’ve driven half the Mother Road even though you haven’t), grab some grub and snag a Route 66 souvenir or two.Īmarillo’s Cadillac Ranch offers one of Route 66’s most artistic stops.Īfterward, make a U-turn and head straight back to Amarillo and be on the lookout for the biggest roadside prize of them all, legendary Cadillac Ranch. Grab a set of wheels and make a beeline for the kitschy Midpoint Cafe about 50 miles west of dusty Amarillo. Route 66 stretches some 2,200 miles from Chicago’s Grant Park to the Santa Monica Pier in LA, and an Amarillo starting point means you’ll be smack at its halfway point - almost.
Starting in dusty Amarillo and ending seaside in Galveston, here’s the perfect six-day itinerary for a nose-to-tail Texas road trip. Sure, it’s daunting in size (five New Yorks could fit inside Texas), but we’ve criss-crossed the entire state and so can you. The Lone Star State has all that and so much more. This article was updated on August 20, 2020.ĭon’t pretend you haven’t pictured yourself speeding down Route 66 in search of Cadillac Ranch and other fabled roadside nostalgia kicking up dirt in Hill Country back roads joining the queues in Austin for legendary barbecue following in the footsteps of real cowboys at the Fort Worth Stockyards or stepping into a pair of boots and kicking up your heels at a roadside honky-tonk.
Note: All travel is subject to frequently changing governmental restrictions-please check federal, state and local advisories before scheduling trips.
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