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Map of Route 66 across California

Interactive U.S. 66 maps for California

Last Updated: . By Austin Whittall

written by human, not by AI

Route 66 in California crosses the state from the Colorado River near Needles, running with a westwards course through the rugged terrain of the Mojave Desert, reaching Barstow where it ran south near the Mojave River to Victorville and then climbing the gap between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, crossing San Andreas Fault and reaching San Bernardino.
Here it runs west along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains across San Gabriel Valley in the suburbs of Los Angeles and in Pasadena it heads into the downtown district, and then across Hollywood and Beverly Hills to its western terminus on the Pacific Ocean's coast in Santa Monica.

This page consists of one Interactive Map of Route 66 in California with the alignment of Route 66 across the state and each of the towns and cities that is passes through plus five additional interactive maps with these alignments and links to our detailed pages with in-depth information on each leg across the state with their own collections of maps.

Enjoy your Route 66 road trip in California

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Interactive Maps of Route 66 in California

Our California maps

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Click Button and Map will appear below

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Color key to the Map

Pale Blue marks the old original sections or Route 66 that can be driven.
Blue: other alignments of Route 66 (i.e. The Alt 66 in San Bernardino); click on the "town" icon closest to them for full details on the alignment and its history.
Black: sections now gone or which cannot be driven, i.e. buried beneath a freeway or inside a Marine base.
Gaps: The "Gaps" in the colored lines are places where the original roadbed is now buried under the interstate highways (I-40 or I-15, etc.)

For the other parts of the map, check the color key of the map of the nearest city

The Yellow line shows the course of the San Andreas Fault in Cajon Pass (between Victorville and San Bernardino).

Brown is the Bypass US-66 in Los Angeles.
Color key for the segments between Pasadena and Los Angeles - Hollywood:
Blue: The 1926 to 1931 alignment of Route 66 into downtown Los Angeles.
Orange: The 1931- 34 alignment along Mission St. and Pasadena Ave.
Green: The 1935 alignment through Eagle Rock.
Red: The 1936 - 39 alignment along N Figueroa St. -later named US 66 Alt.
Pale Blue: The 1936 ⁄ 1940 - 1964 Route 66 through Los Angeles via the Arroyo Seco Parkway and then (after 1949 along the Hollywood freeway and Santa Monica Blvd.) into West Hollywood.

towns

Click on any town icon and follow the link to that town's web page, you will find plenty of useful information (weather, history, interesting spots, landmarks, hotels and motels and directions on the alignment of Route 66 close to it).

If you can't see the button, refresh the page and "map button" will reappear.

More Interactive maps of Route 66 in California

We divided the course of the highway across California into six legs between Needles and Santa Monica.

Below are these five interactive maps

Topock to Barstow

Barstow to Pasadena

Pasadena to Santa Monica

San Fernando Terminus

Into Los Angeles

Topock to Barstow

Barstow to Pasadena

Pasadena to Santa Monica

San Fernando Terminus

Into Los Angeles

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Credits

Banner image: Hackberry General Store, Hackberry, Arizona by Perla Eichenblat.

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