Kingman sits about 185 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, and the drive between the Route 66 city and downtown runs roughly 3 hours door to door in normal traffic. The connection runs highway nearly the whole way: US-60 heads northwest from the Valley through the White Tank foothills to Wickenburg, where US-93 breaks north through the Joshua Forest Parkway, past Wikieup and the Santa Maria River, into Kingman at the foot of the Hualapais. It is Arizona's northwest corridor, carrying Route 66 sightseers, Hoover Dam day-trippers, Mojave travelers, and Laughlin-bound visitors between Kingman...