Route 66 Walking Tour

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Neon Signs, the Green Book & an Unsolved Murder

Route 66 Turns 100. Most People Will Just Drive Past. Flagstaff is the only city in Arizona where Route 66 is still a working main street. Not a museum. Not a plaque on a bypassed stretch of highway. The road people take to work, to school, to the grocery store. And almost nobody knows what happened here. A French priest who believed roads were holy work. A Boston astronomer convinced there were Martians on the hill above town. A man from Chicago who came to die and ended up building a city. Their stories are written into every block of this road - if you know where to look. Your guide does. On this two-hour guided walk, you'll cover both the original 1926 alignment and the 1934 reroute through downtown and the historic Southside. You'll pass neon signs born from a war between motels fighting for survival, the remains of an auto camp where family vacations became democratic, and a mural that ties a century of the Mother Road into one wall. There's an unsolved double murder from 1916. A boarding house built for Basque sheepherders. And a fifty-year gathering that drew 100,000 people to this road every Fourth of July. We don't spoil the stories here. That's what the walk is for. Freaky Foot Tours has five generations of Arizona roots, mother and son owned since 2015. This tour is made possible with partial funding provided by the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona.