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Hackberry General Store & Visitor’s Center at Route 66

86411 Hackberry, AZ, United States of America (USA) (Arizona)
Address 11255 E. Hwy 66
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ
Passenger cars

Opening times
 Summer (March - October), Daily: 8am - 6pm
Winter (November - February), Daily: 9am - 5pm

Admission
Status from 09/2023
 Free entry.
Contact
Tel.:+1-928-769-26 05  eMail:hackberryrt66 yahoo.com  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
hackberrygeneralstore.com
Our page for Hackberry General Store & Visitor’s Center at Route 66 in Hackberry, United States of America (USA), is administrated by Radiomuseum.org member Jerry Elarton. Please write to him about your experience with this museum, for corrections of our data or sending photos by using the Contact Form to the Museum Finder.
Location / Directions
N35.374890° W113.722798°N35°22.49340' W113°43.36788'N35°22'29.6040" W113°43'22.0728"
Hackberry is an unincorporated community in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. Hackberry is located on Arizona State Route 66 (former U.S. Route 66) 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Kingman.
Description

Route description

State Route 66 is a relic of the former U.S. Route 66 in Arizona and is the only part of old US 66 in Arizona to have state route markers. Its western terminus is near Kingman at exit 52 on Interstate 40 and its eastern terminus was near Seligman at exit 123 on Interstate 40.

In 1984, US 66 was officially removed from the state highway system of Arizona. Most of the old highway had been replaced by I-40, but the portion between Kingman and Seligman where I-40 followed a new alignment to the south became SR 66

 

 

Hackberry

is a former mining town, Hackberry takes its name from the hackberry tree common to the area.

Various service stations in the town served U.S. Route 66 travellers; all were shut down after Interstate 40 in Arizona bypassed the town. Interstate 40's 69-mile path between Kingman and Seligman diverges widely from the old 82-mile Highway 66 segment between these points, leaving Hackberry stranded sixteen miles from the new highway. Hackberry Road would not even be given an off-ramp. The Northside Grocery (established 1934)and its Conoco station were among the last to close, in 1978.

Hackberry became a ghost town.

 

 

 

 

Hackberry General Store

In 1992, itinerant artist Bob Waldmire re-opened the Hackberry General Store as a Route 66 tourism information post and souvenir shop on the former Northside Grocery site. At one point, he was the town's only resident.

Waldmire sold the store to John and Kerry Pritchard in 1998 due to local disputes regarding the environmental and aesthetic impact of quarries, which by that time were establishing themselves in the area to remove local stone for use in landscaping.

The store remains in operation with a collection of vintage cars from the heyday of U.S. Route 66 in Arizona; in 2008, its owners donated land for a new fire hall to be built for the community

 

 
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