Route 66 Motorcycle Tour: LA to Chicago

Your Route 66 motorcycle tour begins with a scheduled flight to Los Angeles. After arrival, a shuttle takes you to a well-located mid-class hotel near the airport. The rest of the day is free before the actual tour begins the next morning.

An optional city tour shows you Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Hollywood. In the afternoon comes the briefing for your Harley-Davidson USA tour and the handover of the bikes at the rental station, before you hit the road the next morning.

Via Highway 1 and the winding Angeles Crest Highway through the San Gabriel Mountains, Route 66 by motorcycle officially begins. Passing Santa Monica, the starting point of the Mother Road, today's stage ends in the desert town of Barstow, where you spend the night.

This Nevada-Arizona motorcycle tour leads through the Mojave Desert, past the well-known Bagdad Cafe and Roy's Café in Amboy, on to the Hoover Dam. At Lake Mead you enjoy the view before reaching the glittering city of Las Vegas in the afternoon, where you stay overnight.

This guided motorcycle tour of the USA gives you free time today for show tickets, the local Harley-Davidson dealer, or a day trip to the Valley of Fire and Mt. Charleston, entirely at your own pace. Second night in Las Vegas.

This stage of your Route 66 desert tour leads over Sitgreaves Pass to the old western town of Oatman with its wild burros, then through the Hualapai Reservation with a first glimpse of the Grand Canyon. After a stop in Seligman at Angel Delgadillo's, today's stage ends in Williams.

From Williams, your Grand Canyon motorcycle tour follows the South Rim with stops at Duck Rock, Grand View and Desert View, plus an optional helicopter flight over the canyon. Lunch break at the old trading post in Cameron, then back to Williams for another night.

Past the abandoned Twin Arrows gas station and a photo stop in Winslow, immortalized by the Eagles, the Route 66 itinerary continues to the Jack Rabbit Trading Post and the Petrified Forest National Park. Overnight in the old railroad town of Gallup.

Passing the mission church in Laguna, over 300 years old, you reach Albuquerque on the Rio Grande with a lunch break on the historic Plaza. This Route 66 desert tour stage ends in the old town of Santa Fe, where you spend two nights.

A rest day in Santa Fe for strolling and shopping, or an onroad tour of America to the old Native American pueblo of Taos along the Rio Grande, with views from the steel-girder bridge of the snow-capped foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Second night in Santa Fe.

Through the High Plains, after a photo stop at the Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, you reach the Mid Point of Route 66 in Adrian. This USA biker tour ends at the famous Cadillac Ranch, with overnight stay in Amarillo, Texas, and an optional steak dinner.

Past the restored U-Drop Inn in Shamrock and the largest Route 66 museum in the USA in Elk City, your Route 66 stages continue through the Panhandle across the Canadian River to Oklahoma City, where you spend the night.

Past the Red Barn in Arcadia, the Seaba Station and the Blue Whale in Catoosa, your 19-day motorcycle tour crosses the short, just 20 km stretch through Kansas with the Rainbow Bridge, ending with an overnight stay in Joplin.

After the historic courthouse in Carthage, a jeep train takes you to the Fantastic Caverns near Springfield, including a stop at the Bass Pro Shop. The Route 66 itinerary continues through the Ozark Mountains to the Devil's Elbow Bridge near Rolla.

The towering Gateway Arch marks St. Louis on the Mississippi River, after which your onroad tour of America crosses the river into Illinois. In the evening you reach the overnight stop in the state capital, Springfield.

Past the water tower in Atlanta and the giant hot dog man, your Chicago motorcycle tour stage reaches the Dixie Truck Stop and the Gemini Giant in Wilmington. You return your bikes at the rental station in Des Plaines, with overnight stay near O'Hare Airport.

This USA biker tour lets you explore the Windy City on your own: the Willis Tower Sky Deck, Millennium Park and Navy Pier are on the agenda, before you round off the evening together at a restaurant.

The hotel shuttle takes you to Chicago airport on your own, from where your Route 66 stages journey ends with the return flight to your chosen European departure point, connecting flights possible.

Arrival at your chosen departure point in Europe and the end of this 19-day motorcycle tour along the legendary Route 66 from Los Angeles to Chicago, with many memories of the Mother Road in your luggage.