Jacky Runice
| Special to USA TODAY 10Best
10 places you need to see when driving Route 66
While some of the landmarks have shut their doors, there are still plenty of great stops. Here are our favorite ways to “get your kicks on Route 66.”
10Best Editors, USA TODAY 10Best
If you consider Tulsa, Oklahoma simply “flyover country,” you’re woefully misguided. Discover a town that’s unlike any other in terms of American history, music, pop culture, art deco architecture and Native American art – and did we mention barbecue, Latin, Asian and soul food?
Artists and athletes are loving this singular city that offers Western ruggedness, Southern hospitality and Midwestern friendliness.
Music
The latest buzz in Tulsa is the recent opening of the Bob Dylan Center. The enigmatic icon sold his archives to the Tulsa-based George Kaiser Family Foundation (George Kaiser is a veritable patron saint of the city, contributing to the city’s enhancement via bike trails, The Gathering Place along the Arkansas River, the Woody Guthrie archives and other areas of Tulsa’s cultural ecosystem).
Exhibits at the Dylan Center focus on the musician’s boundless creative impulse. You’ll see Dylan’s process via handwritten pages of edits of beloved songs,…
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