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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2010: Route 66 and Kelso Dunes Wilderness Bicycle Camping / Day 1: Route 66: Barstow to Ludlow /

Barstow's downtown area has many older, modest dwellings built along desert hillsides

6004-barstow-hillside.jpg Among the many antiques on the Route 66 Motel property is this cigarette machineThumbnailsA 24-hour donut shop on Barstow's Route 66 is closed due to the water contaminationAmong the many antiques on the Route 66 Motel property is this cigarette machineThumbnailsA 24-hour donut shop on Barstow's Route 66 is closed due to the water contaminationAmong the many antiques on the Route 66 Motel property is this cigarette machineThumbnailsA 24-hour donut shop on Barstow's Route 66 is closed due to the water contaminationAmong the many antiques on the Route 66 Motel property is this cigarette machineThumbnailsA 24-hour donut shop on Barstow's Route 66 is closed due to the water contaminationAmong the many antiques on the Route 66 Motel property is this cigarette machineThumbnailsA 24-hour donut shop on Barstow's Route 66 is closed due to the water contamination

These older areas are picturesque compared to the bland suburban tract housing that surrounds them, and which dominate most of this small city.