January 19, 2023
Weitzman Receives National Park Service Grant to Protect and Preserve Route 66 Cultural Landscape
![Twilight view of the neon-lit Blue Swallow Hotel along Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico](/sites/default/files/styles/image_3_2_large/public/images/Route66.jpg?h=999b7b58&itok=tcEFnaxj)
Tucumcari's Blue Swallow Hotel, which opened to travelers along Route 66 in 1939 (Photo: Licensed by iStock/Getty Images)
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Tucumcari's Blue Swallow Hotel, which opened to travelers along Route 66 in 1939 (Photo: Licensed by iStock/Getty Images)
US Highway 66, popularly known as “Route 66,” was the US’s first all-weather highway from Chicago to Los Angeles. (Image: National Park Service)