centennial route 66

Stop #6 Mesa Verde National Park, CO

Step House is especially significant because it demonstrates that people used the same alcove during two very different periods. Earlier inhabitants constructed pithouses there around 700 CE, while a later community built a 27-room masonry

Stop #1 Springfield, Illinois

Route 66 was once a key path for people heading west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, helping to boost the economies of towns along the way.