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“Road Trip 66” is the iPhone travel app that takes you along America’s Mother Road, Route 66. Featuring almost 1,800 sights — landmarks, classic attractions, diners and cafes, cool old neon signs, Mom-n-Pop motels, homemade attractions, relics of days gone by, and many more classic examples of pure Americana.

You won’t find the “typical” spots found on most travel apps – no run-of-the-mill fast food joints (unless they have a UFO or giant being on the building). Any app can give you a phonebook listing of what’s nearby.  Road Trip 66 gives you the hand-picked offbeat attractions, AND the original routes, that make taking the back roads a lot more fun!

Follow the original Route 66 and its various alignments

Route 66 is no longer a single road–sadly “progress” and interstates have re-routed it multiple times. “Road Trip 66″ shows you the various routes it once followed, with landmarks all along the way. Now, you can actually follow historic Route 66 turn-by-turn on via map routes! No more pesky maps to try and re-fold. Zoom in and see the various alignments (and where to turn when it deviates) and what cool things are along the way.  Perfect for Route 66 aficionados, road trippers and photographers who love to get in the car and explore!

NEW Passport – When you tap on the “Wanna go” and “Seen it” buttons on the description page, you can save your favorite spots. Automagically, your pins turn to flags, on both the map and listing!

Learn a little along the way…

 Trying to decide what not to miss? Wondering what business once operated in that cool old building? Where to find a classic neon sign for the perfect photo op? Road Trip 66 has it at your fingertips. The app is updated often with new info and trivia to annoy your car mates with.

Easy to use

After you open the app, you will find yourself on the map.  Just slide over to wherever you would like to start along the route. Zoom in, touch the color-coded icon and find out more about whatever tickles your fancy. Not interested in foraging for food or seeing roadside attractions? You can also customize the screen to show only the categories you are interested in finding.

Just pinch to navigate the map, swipe to scroll through the listings, flick to see more photos. Tap any point to get more detail.

Easy to search

Maps?  Listings?  Attractions? Choose your way to search through the tons of geo-coded points of interest (POIs). Every listing is text-searchable, or you can pick a location and see what is around.

Thousands of images – See what you’re getting yourself into!

Requires an iOS 5.0 or later for iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.

13 Comments

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  2. Robin
    July 13, 2012

    Wish this was available for Android!

  3. kelly
    July 16, 2012

    Hi – Thanks for your interest, we are discussing Android, but want to see what the interest level is first. I will mark your comment as a “yes!”

  4. John
    August 22, 2012

    Worked well until this afternoon. Now starts to load then crashes on my iPhone but still works on iPad . Help or advice on getting app to work again

  5. kelly
    August 23, 2012

    Hi John – We just updated the database yesterday afternoon – you may have been caught in the middle of that change. First try closing the app and restarting your phone and then your app. If that does’t work, try deleting the app from your phone and re-installing it. Note – deleting will cause you to lose your Wanna go and Seen it flags. If you are still having trouble – let me know.

  6. Lori
    September 1, 2012

    Just finished a 20-day motorcycle ride of Route 66! While in Arcadia OK on the trip East, we ran into some guys who told us about the App, and man! Did it help us stay on track! It’s not easy to follow the course on motorcycles when you can’t look at a map, but each time we found ourselves off route, we’d pull over, look at your app, and it would guide us back. Truly fantastic! I added a link to my final wrap up blog touting the benefits. Best .99 cent investment ever! Thanks! http://bondorella.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/20-days-on-the-road-and-5149-miles/

  7. kelly
    September 4, 2012

    Great to hear!!! So happy that it was a help – 66 is tricky to follow. Would you consider going on iTunes and share your app love?

  8. Ronald Mc GREGOR
    September 9, 2012

    Without this app, my wife and I would still ne looking for a way out from some fields in Oklahoma.
    Some segments of the route we found in OK that were’nt in your app – maybe you should check this out!
    Thanks for being part of our dream road trip.

  9. kelly
    September 10, 2012

    Glad to help :) I have gotten lost a few time myself while on 66! I will look into those alignments!

  10. Juliusz
    October 9, 2012

    +1 for Android.

  11. Tom Groves
    October 17, 2012

    I need an droid app for this

  12. Alex
    February 6, 2013

    I need an android app like this!!!

  13. Sylv
    February 14, 2013

    Another vote for the Android version!

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