If you don’t divine from the signs that you’re on Route 66, the souvenirs will tell you. In Needles near the Arizona border, the road sign at my first exit was one I’d see often on my journey: ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. There’s a traffic jam on an original stretch of Route 66, caused by a bunch of jackasses. Not in a ...

OATMAN — Tourists crowded this Wild West-themed town on a recent Friday to coo at and feed the resident wild burros that help the historic mining camp retain its wooly character. Led by Oliver, the ...

2001-06-17 04:00:00 PDT Oatman, Arizona-- It wasn't so much the wild burros that brayed outside the window before dawn. Or the cavalier way the heavily tattooed bartender tossed us the key to the ...

OATMAN, Ariz — Below the Black Mountains of Arizona is an old ghost town abandoned by gold miners. The town is named Oatman and when prospectors left, they also left something behind... their ...

Oatman, a tiny mountain community in western Arizona, sags in a state of happy repose, casual, picturesque and decidedly weird. A handful of historical buildings fronted by wooden sidewalks are strung ...

Here's my plan: I'll drive to a town that shouldn't exist. I'll travel a ghost road, a twisted ribbon of pavement that was killed off decades ago. Along the way I'll stop at a couple of places that ...

“Don’t forget Winona,” says the song, but honestly, when I drove into Winona, there wasn’t a whole lot there to forget. I mean, I saw the sign that said “Winona” and the old iron bridge, but the rest ...

With its frontier false fronts, wooden balconies and adobe buildings, Oatman, Ariz., looks the part of a classic, Old West town. In fact, the town is so typical of the genre that several of its ...