Destinations · California
CA · 34.5008, -117.1858
California Historic Route 66 Needles to Barstow Scenic Byway is a signed byway within 30 miles of Apple Valley, California.
Understand
Despite the name, there are no apple orchards in the city. Prior to World War II, the city was known for growing award winning apples. The local apple crops were decimated by three devastating years of fungal infection and extreme weather in the mid 1940s. The Postal Service approved the name "Apple Valley" for the local post office in 1949, after destruction of most of the local orchards and the end of the commercial apple industry in the area.
Planned by the Byway engine on real roads: every stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature, and the total time counts driving and the stops themselves.
Loop 1 · 8 h window · 223 mi
7 h 46 loop · 7 stops · back by 4:45 PM. Incorporates Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110.
Byway's engine bakes one loop from Apple Valley: 8 h, 223 miles, 7 stops. The time counts the driving and the stops themselves.
The 8 h loop stops at Baldy Mesa, Route 66, Hawaiian Gardens Veterans Memorial, Bunnyhenge, Mormon Battalion Mountain, Tokay Hill and Cajon Mountain Lookout. Each stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature.
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
The engine starts from town, weaves the byways and verified stops around it, and hands back an honest schedule — zero hallucinations.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.