Main Street stretches toward mountains that frame Barstow like nature’s own theater backdrop, offering daily performances of spectacular sunrises and sunsets at no charge. Photo credit: California ...

Main Street stretches toward mountains that frame Barstow like nature’s own theater backdrop, offering daily performances of spectacular sunrises and sunsets at no charge. Photo credit: California ...

The reopening of Barstow’s Route 66 Mother Road Museum at the historic Harvey House on March 22, 2025, is expected to draw visitors from California and across the country.

Located at the Barstow Harvey House, the museum will make its “triumphant return” with a "Grand Re-Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 22.

Located at the Barstow Harvey House, the museum will make its “triumphant return” with a "Grand Re-Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 22.

Mayor Clark had that burned-out neighboring house torn down not using Harvey city funds, but using his personal account. "I just decided that it was best for me to go ahead and front that money to ...

“The museum in the Harvey House, it’s a shame not to have it operating,” O’Brien told me Monday by phone. And so, the Route 66 Mother Road Museum, 681 N.

Barstow is one of the cities name-checked in the song “Route 66”: “…Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.” A museum in Barstow devoted to the famous highway opened on July 4, 2000 at the Harvey House, the ...