Kansas State Highway 66 is a 13 mile (21 kilometre) long highway that slices off the southeastern corner of the state. Its eastern terminus is on the Missouri state line near Galena (where it continues as Missouri State Highway 66), while its western terminus is at Alternate U.S. Highway 69 and U.S. Highway 400 at Riverton. This road is noteworthy in the fact that it used to be the famed Route 66. When the nearby Interstate 44 offered a more direct route between Missouri and Oklahoma, there was no need to keep the Route 66 distinction. Kansas then left it as Kansas Highway 66. Image File history File links KS_66. ... Mitchell Freeway in Perth, Western Australia For other uses, see Highway (disambiguation). ... Missouri, named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning canoe, is a Southern U.S. state in the United States with Jefferson City as its capital. ... Galena is a lead ore. ... Missouri 66 is a fourteen mile long road in southwest Missouri which had previously been U.S. Highway 66 for its final six years. ... US 69 is a north-south United States highway. ... US 400 is an east-west U.S. Highway. ... Riverton, Kansas is a small, unincoprorated community at the junction of Kansas State Highway 66 and Alternate U.S. Highway 69 and U.S. Highway 400. ... Alternate meanings of Route 66: New Jersey State Highway 66, Interstate 66, and a company named after the route US Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the United States highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ... MAJOR JUNCTIONS JUNCTION MILEPOST I-40 Oklahoma 120 I-35 Oklahoma 130-135 I-55 Missouri 290 Legend BROWSE STATE HWYS   Interstate 44 is an interstate highway in the central United States. ...

US 66 in Kansas

The easternmost section of Kansas 66 is not Historic Route 66, the alignment east of Main Street in Galena being US 66 from 1979 to its decommissioning in 1985. The historic alignment comes in from Missouri as Front Street and turns south on Main Street before joining Kansas 66. Historic Route 66 then follows Kansas 66 to Riverton where Kansas 66 ends. Historic Route 66 through Kansas, continues as a county road to the north and west of Alternate US 69 to Baxter Springs, and joins Alternate US 69 to the Oklahoma state line. Galena is a city located in Cherokee County, Kansas. ... Baxter Springs is a city located in Cherokee County, Kansas. ... Oklahoma is a South Central state of the United States (with strong Southern, Western, and Midwestern influences) and its U.S. postal abbreviation is OK; others abbreviate the states name Okla. ...