ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 5 Oklahoma, green hills to Panhandle

  • ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 5 Oklahoma, green hills to Panhandle
    ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 5 Oklahoma, green hills to Panhandle
  • THE RIBBON ROAD outside Miami, Oklahoma, is a remnant of the solitary stretch of Route 66 that was built in 1912 (before the Route was officially designated) as a single lane. | THE TEXAS SPUR
    THE RIBBON ROAD outside Miami, Oklahoma, is a remnant of the solitary stretch of Route 66 that was built in 1912 (before the Route was officially designated) as a single lane. | THE TEXAS SPUR

    Oklahoma has more drivable miles of Route 66 than any other state. And “drivable,” as twenty-first-century roadies know, is all-important.

    I digress for a moment here, from Oklahoma’s varied and fascinating tourist attractions—and its music legends from Woody Guthrie to Garth Brooks—to consider that notion of “drivable.”

    You wouldn’t, in the year 2024, necessarily attempt to motor west over every ve…