Instead of spending a day with the crowds at Joshua Tree National Park during the President's Day free weekend in February 2015, we decided to drive back to Mojave National Preserve for another day of exploration. Along the route from Twentynine Palms, we saw some beautiful scenery even before we reached the preserve. US Highway 66 was created by an act of Congress in 1926 as a 2,400 mile link between Chicago, Illinois and Santa Monica, California. Known for generations as Route 66 or the Mother Road, it was decommissioned in 1985.
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| Northern part of the Bullion Mountains from Amboy Road |
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| Southern section of the Bullion Mountains |
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| Sheep Hole Mountains |
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| Bristol and Granite Mountains |
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| Calumet Mountains |
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| Looking west on Historic Route 66 |
The Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program website is
http://ncptt.nps.gov/rt66/.
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