Lonely Planet Route 66 Road Trips

by Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher

Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet’s Route 66 Road Trips. Featuring three amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you’ll visit along the way, you can explore retro Americana and experience big horizons and epic scenery – all with your trusted travel companion. Jump in the car, turn up the tunes, and hit the road!

Inside Lonely Planet’s Route 66 Road Trips:



Lavish colour 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-colour 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 Missouri, St Louis, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Texas, Amarillo, New Mexico, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Arizona, Grand Canyon National Park, California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet’s Route 66 Road Trips is perfect for exploring Route 66 in the classic way – by road trip!

About Lonely Planet: 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 grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, eBooks, and more.

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Genres: Travel

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2015

About the author

OUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.

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.