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    Sean S.

    Wry small park in Historic Downtown Kingman. Old locomotive on site which you walk up on. Lots of shade oak trees and the like. Nice quick little pit stop. Not really room to do anything but if you're in the area.....

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    Courtney M.

    Mood- History of Course The park was established in 1957. In the year of 1987 it was placed on the National Historical Register. This particular park has a locomotive that was retired in 1953 Named the Sante Fe #3759 which was donated to the City of Kingman. This was due to the rich history this city has with all of the railroads. February 1955 there was a special request from the Railway Club of So-Cal for an excursion dubbed the Farewell to Steam at which #3759 was brought back to life briefly for one last ride. After this ride it sat in storage until it was donated to the city. In 1987 the caboose was retired and donated to the City of Kingman and to be connected to #3759. The residents rallied together during this time to pull the locomotive forward 30ft to make room for the caboose. Talk about a town that believes in community spirit and pride!!!! There are several benches thru-out. No dogs are allowed in the park. There are several signs posted about this. Currently it is decorated for the holiday season. Would thoroughly recommend - pricing is free, you are able to climb aboard and check it out through just the middle. Lots of lush green grass and great places to just sit and relax under the trees. Location is Kingman AZ- Route 66/1St - ample parking on streets

    Jason B.

    This is a must stop for family's when traveling through Kingman Az. This is a very historical city that's right on RT66 What a cool locomotive to see in person. It's just massive in size

    Sean C.

    Pros: Great place for families. Great photo ops Great shade and a lot of neat sites around the park. Nice benches and place to relax Cons: A LOT of homeless people and getting starred down by them. The train is faded and really rusty the city of Kingman is not taking care of its history. The city doesn't have any pride on taking care of there history.

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    Tom B.

    Nice little interesting park at the entrance to downtown with a few trains to look at it's worth stopping and looking at the trains plus you can climb stairs to look inside the locomotive. After wards you can walk across the street to the visitor center and there are restrooms.

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    Faith A.

    I'm a bit of a train enthusiast so when I saw this park across the street from the Kingman Visitor's Center I had to stop by. This free park is clean and well kept. There is an engine, car and caboose - all in excellent condition. Lots of information on how the town acquired each piece. It's definitely worth a stop. If you are not a train lover, there is plenty shaded benches to relax while your train nerd friend looks around.

    Sheila J.

    Who doesn't enjoy the fascination of trains? Especially when they aren't moving and you can get up close and personal? Locomotive Park is across the street from The Powerhouse Visitor Center, which houses the Route 66 Museum. The Park has several trains that you admire and take photos of/next to. Some have ladders on either side, to climb up on and view other sections of the locomotive. The surrounding area has benches to sit on. There's even a diner across the way, should you wish to grab a bite, before or after. Take some selfies or set your mobile device on a 3 to 10 second timer, for cool shots.

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    Christie L.

    In 1883 the town Kingman was established as a railroad stop. You will find Locomotive Park at 1st and Andy Devine Avenue. Here you will see the AT&SF steam engine #3759, and a Caboose that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Engine 3759 was originally a coal burning steam locomotive that was later converted to use oil. There is a visitors center across the street that has a lot of interesting information, as well people inside that are willing to answer any questions you have about the trains and area. A woman told me that the engine 3759 was retired in 1953 and traveled over 2.5 million miles. The Santa Fe Railroad presented the engine to the city of Kingman as a gift and it has been here at the Locomotive Park for people like you and me to look at and even climb up on! In 1987 the caboose you will find here was retired and donated to Kingman to be added to Locomotive Park. I didn't really get a whole lot of information about the caboose, but it was neat! This park isn't too big. They have signs posted pretty much everywhere warning people that dogs are NOT allowed. They have one ash tray, but they also have a sign suggesting that you wait to smoke until you leave the park. This is a great place to bring your kids and show them the train, and climbing on it is fun, but something to note is that this isn't a park with playgrounds and basketball courts. This is a historical park that does offer plenty of shade under trees if you want to stop and have a picnic lunch, but it seeing the train and a having some shady trees is pretty much all this park has to offer. The visitors center I mentioned before is right across the street at the old powerhouse. Stop on in and learn a bit about the trains!

    PatrickJ T.

    Locomotive Park is located on Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona. They are right across the street from the Powerhouse Visitors Center and Route 66 Museum. Nearby to Mr. D'z Route 66 Diner. You will find a cool Steam Engine and Caboose here. Nice place to go for photographs, and to learn a bit of history at the same time.

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    Kingman Visitor Center - 02.16.25 Kingman Visitor Center and Route 66 Museum

    Kingman Visitor Center

    4.3(28 reviews)
    0.5 km

    This is one of the biggest and nicest visitor centers you'll visit along your Route 66 journey. We…read moretried to stop in as many as possible as we traveled from Chicago to Santa Monica and this one definitely did not disappoint. It has all the 'stuff' you'd expect (food, souvenirs, restrooms, etc.), but they invested just as much in providing an experience for you to learn more about Kingman and Route 66 overall. We got our Passport stamped and had to keep moving, but the time we spent there was very well spent.

    This is a fun visitor center with a little something for everyone. Two wonderful gift shops, a…read moresecond floor free museum, a super neat pay museum (that I would strongly recommend), a dog park, and several photo ops. The gift stores had moderate priced items and a nice selection. The free museum gave a nice history of this Route 66 stop. The gem was definitely the pay museum. We learned so much about the history of the area and the dust bowl. As an added bonus was the electric car display. So much fun! We almost skipped this because we were just planning on a short stop. Glad we stayed and explored! We were traveling with an active 6 year old and she stayed engaged throughout. So many fun photo backdrops made this a stop that made our highlight reel from our vacation. Plan to spend at least an hour. Your paid admission to the museum also includes 3 other stops. Not all are open every day. We only made it to one of the 4. Again, good for all ages. Entertaining and informative.

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    Route 66 Museum - 02.16.25 Route 66 Museum upstairs of the Visitor Center

    Route 66 Museum

    4.1(48 reviews)
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    A fantastic museum. Sitting on the west end of town in the old powerhouse building, the museum…read moretells the story about transportation, with a definite emphasis on Route 66, the mother Road.... Everybody who works in the museum is so friendly, and you can tell that they really enjoy sharing the stories. The prices to get in are Reasonable, and your ticket gets you into other museums around town, as well The artifacts are very interesting, as well as the videos you see along the way. Toward the end of the museum is an interesting display of. Historic electric vehicles, including one that was so fast, it actually raced at the Bonneville salt flats, in Utah. And yes, there is a gift shop of course, very large with lots of cool stuff. Thank you for the great stop.

    Visited the Arizona Route 66 museum/visitor center in Kingman on our way to The Town of Oatman, AZ…read more The visitor center is on the 1st floor and offers a nice size gift shop with so many cool souvenirs. They also have nice clean bathrooms. The 2nd floor is the entrance to the Museum. The Museum was very informative about the history of Route 66 and Kingman. We also got to tour the electric vehicle museum. Admission was only $10 for adults. Unfortunately the day we went The Bonelli house was not open which is included in that price. It's a self tour and they also have an hour long movie about Route 66 and the boom and bust that happened. After visiting the shop and touring the museum we had a little picnic lunch outside before continuing our road trip. They had some clean picnic tables under an awning with some shade so we were able to enjoy our lunch outside instead of in our car which was nice! Great place to stop and take a break while visiting Arizona.

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    Route 66 Association of Arizona - painting honoring Gianticus Headicus Route 66 Az

    Route 66 Association of Arizona

    4.3(3 reviews)
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    AMERICA'S MAIN STREET…read more I have always been fascinated by Main Street, USA. This is one reason I am fascinated by US 66. From 1926 to 1985 Route 66 was America's Main Street. From Santa Monica, California to Chicago, Illinois it travelled through eight states: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Disparate from many of the US highways at the time, it did not travel in a straight line. Instead, it travelled diagonally to connect to downtowns that needed a connection to a major Highway in addition to large cities. US 66 grew with the popularity of the automobile and the migration west to California. With the popularity of US 66 came interesting roadside architecture. Examples are Cadillac Ranch, art deco motels, classic gas stations, drive-ins and restaurants. When traffic increased and cars became more powerful, US 66 evolved. For example the hairpin curves between Oatman and Kingman, Arizona were so dangerous that US 66 was relocated to the current I-40. By the 1960s, US 66 became an American institution. US 66 became as American as apple pie. There was a show about US 66 and the song "Get Your Kicks on Route 66." Meanwhile a pledging American institution was making America's Main Street extinct. It was the Interstate. Gradually the Interstate replaced US 66. In 1985 when I-40 was completed in 1985, US 66 was decommissioned from the highway system. It was replaced by I-10, I-15, I-40, I-44, and I-55. Americans love our heritage. US 66 is a part of our heritage. Groups such as the US 66 Association are working hard to preserve the existing segments of US 66 and to reinstate it as a US Highway. Thanks to their efforts "Historic US 66" route markers bring America's Main Street back to life in many of the existing segments. I have recently been on a few segments of US 66. Whenever I drove on US 66 pavement I felt a connection to America's heritage and a feeling of being in a real life train set. Whenever I am driving from Las Vegas to Southern California, when I exit the fast lane of I-15 for a break at a business off the slower lanes of the I-15 Business Loop, I am on US 66 most likely in a historic area. A not too distant experience was visiting the First McDonald's in San Bernardino off US 66. If I kept going West on the former US 66 that is now signed California 66, I'd end up taking the scenic route to Santa Monica Pier. When I drive from Vegas to Arizona destinations, I often stop on US 66. In Kingman, US 66 is both a Main Street and a I-40 Business Route. The US 66 Association is here in the Powerhouse Visitor Center. In downtown Kingman, US 66 looks like a charming train set turned to life. This is one of the larger segments of US 66. From Kingman, it changes into Arizona 66 and travels through the desert passing Grand Canyon Caverns until it rejoins I-40 West of Williams. When I vacationed in the Grand Canyon, it was US 66 in Williams that I stopped off before driving into the park. I knew I was on US 66 when I saw the bear attraction. When I drive the Laughlin route toward Lake Havasu City, I am driving on US 66 when I cruise through Needles, California . Recently I was hanging out on US 66 when I was spending a few hours in the ghost town of Oatman. And this summer when I walked in the Chicago Loop I was walking on the easternmost segment of US 66. US 66 is currently a discontinuous Main Street. Many have been negatively affected by the Interstate. A reinstated US 66 would connect these Main Street at the same time it would increase tourism. America needs it's Main Street back. The Route 66 Associations in each of the states that US 66 travels through are fighting the good fight by trying to reinstate US 66 to the highway system. I support them. And on the subject of US 66 for the next couple of days I will mentally be at the easternmost city of US 66 finishing up my 2014 Chicago reviews. I'll mentally be back in Vegas in a few days when the weather turns cooler. Most likely reviewing a Las Vegas Park or restaurant . So, my Vegas Yelper friends I will share my local experiences then. However, because this is the Internet you can join me on a mental trip to the easternmost city of US 66 in Chicago. If not I will leave you singing, "If you ever plan to motor west Travel my way the road that's the best. Get your kicks on Route 66."

    Great Route 66 Museum! Very well presented history of Route 66. Worth the stop. I don't have kids…read morebut I think this would be an entertaining stop for kids as well. They also have a small electro car museum.

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