This November marks 100 years since the establishment of Route 66. The iconic highway ran from Chicago to California through several states, including Arizona. One Arizona town along that route helped inspire a popular Pixar film.

The U.S. Postal Service plans to introduce a collection of Forever stamps featuring photographs of Route 66. These stamps will be issued at the National Postal Forum in Phoenix next month to commemorate the highway’s centennial.

More than half of the 2,400 miles of Route 66 pass through Indian Country. And much of it follows ancient Native American hunting trails and trade routes.

The funds from the National Park Service will go towards a program for supporting commercial and civic properties along rural stretches of Route 66 in Arizona.

Next year, cities and towns across the country including here in northern Arizona will mark the 100th birthday of one of America’s most iconic highways, Route 66.

Route 66 is known for its representation of the expansion to the West, the Mother Road, vintage cars and diners and Americana trinket shops. But, there is another, more troubling history: Route 66's atomic history.

Nearly 100 years ago, Route 66, the first cross-country road, was built in America. Now, the upcoming centennial of the Mother Road is in 2026. But, we’re losing pieces of that history all the time today.

Route 66 has long been a nostalgic symbol of American opportunity and Western expansion. But for many people of color who made their lives along the historic route, it was a different story.

A documentary, "Route 66: The Untold Story of Women on the Mother Road," examines how women navigated segregation and gender discrimination to build lives for themselves along America's most famous highway.

As the old phrase goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. If that’s really true, then the Petrified Forest has a lot of treasure from 50 years or more ago. The National Park Service is preserving a lot of what Route 66 drivers and passengers threw out the windows in the mid-20th century and is trying to put it into historical perspective.