Lonely Planet Route 66 Road Trips

by Andrew Bender

Lonely The world's leading travel guide publisher

Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Route 66's Road Trips. Featuring three amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, you can search for roadside attractions or dillydally your way through the desert, all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road!

Inside Lonely Planet's Route 66's Road

Lavish color and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-color route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Stretch Your Legs, Detours, Link Your Trip Covers Los Angeles, Chicago, St Louis, Kansas, California, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois and more The Perfect Lonely Planet's Route 66's Road Trips is perfect for exploring Route 66 in the classic American way - by road trip!

Planning a Route 66 trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's USA guide, our most comprehensive guide to the USA, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. Looking for a guide focused on a specific Route 66 city? Check out Lonely Planet's Chicago guide and Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California guide for a comprehensive look at all that these cities have to offer, or Pocket Chicago and Pocket Los Angeles, handy-sized guides focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip. About Lonely Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day.

Genres: Travel

308 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2015

About the author

Andrew Bender is an award-winning travel and food writer known for his Seat 1A travel site on Forbes and contributions to publications including the Los Angeles Times and Lonely Planet. Writing since the late 1990s, he has authored over three dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks and won the Eureka! Travel Writing Award for his coverage of California’s deserts. With an MBA from Wharton and a Master’s in East Asian Studies, Andrew is also a cross-cultural consultant and tour leader for Japan. He speaks fluent Japanese and French, has lived in Japan, France, and the Netherlands, and now resides near Los Angeles, blending travel expertise with cultural insight.

Reviews

[Jacqui H. Travis · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best Route 66 road guides, organized state by state, then town by town. Great fold-out laminated map. Has ALL of the quirky roadside attractions and attractions just a short distance off the Mother Road.
My edition was a few years older than this edition, but I've used it on 3 different trips.

[Pedro Bello · Rating 5 out of 5]

Um mapa em anexo que foi muito util.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good start. I would have enjoyed more detail about each place featured along Route 66.

[Christina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Checked out the eBook edition from the library to help plan a trip to Oklahoma. The longest stretch of continuous Rte. 66 that remains is between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Despite that, this guide devotes only three slim pages to that stretch. There's a hyper link to the Oklahoma Route 66 website, but when I went there for more details, I found I'd have to purchase their self-published guide.

I ended up going to Barnes & Noble where I found the much more thorough Moon Route 66 Road Trip which provides a lot more detail. About 22 pages on the stretch between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, with details on a lot of sites off Rte.66 in the cities it passes through.

[Kåre Alme · Rating 5 out of 5]

One step closer to making the dream come true :-)

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful for our Route 66 drive. A bit difficult to use if you drive the reverse direction ie. LA to Chicago. would be more useful if some distances between locations were included in the book.