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Route 66 Centennial Walking Tour

Category: Event Calendar

Dates and Times

  • Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Thursday, Apr 2, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Friday, Apr 3, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Saturday, Apr 4, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Sunday, Apr 5, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Monday, Apr 6, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Tuesday, Apr 7, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Wednesday, Apr 8, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Thursday, Apr 9, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Friday, Apr 10, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Saturday, Apr 11, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • Sunday, Apr 12, 2026  4pm - 6pm
  • + 87 more

Location

Heritage Square
22 E. Aspen Ave

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Details

Route 66 turns 100 in 2026. Three unlikely visionaries fought to bring this highway through Flagstaff — and most people have never heard their names.

Father Cyprian Vabre, a French priest who believed good roads were God's work. Percival Lowell, a Boston astronomer who came to chase Martians on the hill above town. Michael Riordan, a man from Chicago who arrived to heal his lungs and ended up building a city. Their stories converge on the ground beneath your feet, and your guide will show you exactly where.

On this two-hour guided walk, you'll cover both the original 1926 alignment and the 1934 reroute through downtown and the historic Southside. Along the way: neon signs born from a motel war between the DuBeau and the Downtowner, a listing in the Green Book that told Black travelers where they could safely sleep, an unsolved double murder from 1916, and a 50-year gathering that drew 100,000 people to this road every Fourth of July.

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 highway. The road people take to work every day. Built-in photo stops throughout the route give you time to capture iconic neon signs, vintage motels, and Route 66 landmarks.

Freaky Foot Tours is Flagstaff's trusted storytellers, family owned since 2015 with 1,000+ five-star reviews across Arizona. Voted Best of Flagstaff 2023, 2024, and 2025. Every story originally researched. This tour is made possible with partial funding from the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona.

Arizona has the longest drivable stretch of Route 66 in the country at 385 miles. Now you can walk the most storied mile and a half of it.