Roadside Attractions in Arizona
9 places
Quirky·Yavapai County
Burma-Shave Signs
West of Seligman, Arizona State Route 66 carries replica Burma-Shave signs: a short rhyme split across a run of small boards spaced along the shoulder, the punch line landing on the last board before the brand name. Ten sets, five facing each direction, run for about fifteen miles beginning roughly a mile and a half west of Seligman, between mileposts 138 and 139.
History·Mohave County
Cool Springs Station
Cool Springs Station is a stone filling station on the Oatman Road at the foot of the Black Mountains, rebuilt between 2002 and 2004 on the original stone pillars and foundation of a Route 66 camp and now kept as a small museum and gift shop below the climb to Sitgreaves Pass. The first station went up in the mid-1920s on the Old Trails Highway, which became Route 66 in 1926.
Museums & Art·Mohave County
Electric Vehicle Museum
The Route 66 Electric Vehicle Museum occupies part of the Powerhouse in Kingman, the 1907 power plant on Andy Devine Avenue that also houses the Arizona Route 66 Museum, and it is given over entirely to electric vehicles. The Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation brought a display of electric vehicles to the Route 66 International Festival in August 2014, and the city kept it as a permanent museum; it has been billed since as the first museum anywhere devoted solely to electric vehicles.
Quirky·Mohave County
Giganticus Headicus
Giganticus Headicus is a fourteen-foot green concrete head in the style of a tiki carving, half-buried in the desert beside Route 66 at Antares, northeast of Kingman. The sculptor Gregg Arnold, formerly of New Jersey, built it in 2004 from metal, wood, chicken wire, styrofoam and cement, outside what had been the Kozy Corner Trailer Court and the Ranchero Motel. The property around it has since become Antares Point, a gift shop and sculpture yard.
Quirky·Mohave County
Hackberry General Store
The Hackberry General Store is a Route 66 souvenir shop built into a 1934 roadside grocery and Conoco station in Hackberry, crammed with gadgets, signs, mementos, billboards and other artifacts of the road from the 1940s through the 1960s, with vintage cars parked outside. Also known as the Northside Grocery, it opened on what was then a new alignment of Route 66 north of the railroad, and a 1937 directory listed it as the Northside Garage and Camp.
Quirky·Yavapai County
Juan Delgadillo's Chevy
In front of Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In in Seligman sits a 1936 Chevrolet that Juan Delgadillo turned into a roadside sign. He cut the roof off the hardtop, covered the body in paint, horns and automotive emblems, and stood an artificial Christmas tree in the back, a lure meant to pull drivers off Route 66 and up to the counter.
Nature·Mohave County
Keepers of the Wild
Keepers of the Wild Nature Park is a nonprofit animal sanctuary on about 175 acres of canyon land beside Route 66 at Valentine, roughly 30 miles northeast of Kingman. Every animal in it was rescued, by the sanctuary's own account, and in 2025 Sedona Monthly counted more than 50 species there, from tigers and other big cats, bears and coyotes to camels, llamas, alpacas, deer, tropical birds and tortoises.
Entertainment·Mohave County
Oatman Gunfights
Staged gunfights on Main Street in Oatman turn the old Route 66 into an open-air stage: costumed gunfighters walk out into the roadway, onlookers close in around them, and a shootout plays out with real guns firing blanks while the crowd stands within ten or fifteen feet of the action. The best-known troupe, the Oatman Ghost Riders, had by a 2014 account been staging reenactments daily for more than 25 years, and Roadside America also recorded a second group, the Bitter Creek Outlaws.
Quirky·Mohave County
The Dollar Bill Bar
The saloon in the old Oatman Hotel on Main Street in Oatman is papered in one-dollar bills, walls and ceiling alike, each dated and signed by whoever pinned it up. Local tradition traces the habit to the town's gold miners, who signed a dollar and pinned it to the wall so that, when they were short of cash for a drink, they could find their own bill and spend it.