The Note behind this club · September 7, 2026
The road turns 100 and its founding sponsor is Booking.com
US Route 66 was commissioned on November 11, 1926. The Centennial Commission runs the national calendar for the hundredth year and eight state associations run their own, ending with Illinois in Springfield on the date itself.
The commission publishes no lodging list. Booking.com is a founding sponsor. That is the whole argument in one fact. The motels that survived the interstates are owner-run, and most take reservations on their own pages, usually through a white-labeled engine like Cloudbeds. That counts. The book button on the operator's site is the test, not who wrote the software behind it.
Sixteen stays, eleven operators
Ten motels and hotels and six homes, across seven states. Blue Swallow in Tucumcari, serving the Mother Road since 1939. Wagon Wheel in Cuba, which calls itself the oldest continuously operated motel on the road. Two Wigwam Villages, Holbrook and San Bernardino, one still run by the founder's family, one restored by the Patel family. Skyliner in Stroud, where the site says Cody and Terra became the sole owners this year. Shamrock Court in Sullivan, welcoming travelers for the first time in over 45 years.
The six homes are all Evolve, and each listing names the road: under a mile in Lincoln, right off it in Williams, near Standin' on the Corner in Winslow.
Why motels are in a club at all
This is the first club with motels in it. The rule was never the shape of the building. It was always the operator's own site. A 1939 motor court with a working reservations page passes the same test a beach house does.
Kansas, Texas, and the ones that failed
Kansas has no stay. Its 13 miles hold no owner-run motel with its own booking page. Texas rests on one Evolve home in Amarillo. Sands Motel in Grants has a Reserve Now button that goes to Booking.com. The Boots legacy site sends you to Hotels.com. Both were left off for that. Not a ranking.
Who should own this
The Centennial Commission, which has the calendar and the audience and no lodging page. Failing that, the Old Route 66 Association of Texas, the one state group I found that publishes a lodging partner list.
For the operators
Every link carries a tag. Check dates sends the guest's dates and party size to you and opens your page. Changes: hello@stayclubs.com, same day.
The road's sponsor sells rooms. The motels on it sell their own.
Facts on the club page are what each operator's listing states, checked September 2026.
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