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I LIVED in the Painted Desert Motel in the mid 70's. My father bought the place and did some restoration and re-opened it around 1976. We lived there for about a year before moving back into Holbrook after he sold it. We rebuilt the diner and we lived in the office family home and my uncle who worked doing maintenance and maid duties lived in one of the rooms. Strange to see a place you have lived in a video like this.

I just moved from Scottsdale to Bangkok Thailand 7 months ago. Arizona was a fantastic state to live in and I miss it dearly. Moving out here to this country I now realize how good I had it there in the US.

Arizona native here! SIX GENERATIONS! We were here before AZ was even a state! My great great grandfather was a sheep herder and his kids grew up with the Babbit brothers

Hey Jessie, great video! So FYI: Route 66 is typically pronounced as “Route SIXTY-SIX” and not “Six Six.” It’s the first time hearing someone refer to the highway as “Six Six” and it just doesn’t sound right. LOL 😂

I grew up in a house on Route 66, and in the evenings my sibs and I would sit on big chunks of petrified wood in our front yard and watch vehicles go by from every state in the country. Thanks for a great video about my home state!

My late neighbor was on F Troop, his name was Forrest Tucker.

It is sad that the memory of "F Troop" has so vanished. It was a bit less intellectual that Gilligan's Island, but doesn't deserve to be forgotten.

I traveled Route 66 starting in 1960, we made family excursions every year. All the great tourist traps along the highway, which us kids saw mainly at night while dad slept. lol loved the rattlesnake pits, and turquoise jewelry hand maid by genuine Indians! And let’s not forget the dinosaurs, ghost towns, and the Tee Pee Hotel! It was a great childhood!

Domes are gone now in Casa Grande, they demolished them a couple weeks ago. As far as the gas station jail in the SRC. The jail was added as a tourist attraction when the gas station was open, not sure when it finally closed but I'm saying in the 2000's too. Great video :)

My dad was too cheap to pay for a motel so when we visited relatives it was always a 21+ hour road trip. Once we sat at that gas station in the Salt Creek Canyon for a couple hours waiting for it to open because we couldn't make it to the next station.

The Santa Claus building used to be a little mom & pop food mart.. unfortunately, the couple that ran it were robbed and killed at gunpoint, after that it shut down and never reopened… That was probably almost 40 years ago..

It's absolutely heartbreaking to witness the widespread vandalism in these locations. Each of these places once symbolized hope and a fresh start for their owners, only to meet such a tragic fate. The harsh passage of time has been merciless to these buildings.

The drive through the Salt River Canyon used to be the way to get to the Valley from Show Low and Snowflake where we lived before the road through Heber that went over the Mogollon Rim to Payson was made into a paved highway. While deer hunting in the area a rock punched a hole in our gas tank so we jammed a piece of wood in the puncture and surrounded it with chewing gum then headed to the gas station in the bottom of the canyon where the mechanic removed the gas tank and repaired it so we could be on our way. The drive down the canyon back then was scary because the brakes on cars back in the late 50s and early 60s were not even close to what today's cars have and if you went over the edge it was a long way down plus riding the brakes heated the old drum brakes and shoes til they'd give off a very distinct smell which added to the sensation that you'd be much happier when you were out of the canyon and back on top in whichever direction you were headed.

Santa Claus, AZ on US 93 north of Kingman was also a Post Office. Locals would drive there to mail Christmas cards to have them post marked “Santa Claus, AZ” Other would send their Christmas cards in a parcel addressed to the Post Master and include a couple of bucks cash to have their cards post marked from there. It also had a gas station, curio shop and if I recall a small diner.

the Anasazi inn is amazing now. the artwork is beautiful, there are even speakers that play native music, rain, wind and animal sounds. it's awesome!!

Prescott native, raised in Paulden and lived in Yavapai county for 37 years. My grandparents relocated to the state somehwere around the late 50's to mid 60's and were missionaries to the Apache & Navajo tribes. I relocated to central Texas 2 months ago to start a new and promising job with a growing company, as well to relocate my family out here to start a new life. Arizona isn't the same anymore and, while it's my born home, it doesn't feel like where I should be anymore. I've been all over the state throughout my life and have had the great privelege of taking my wife and kids to places there that they had either never seen or heard of. Abandoned places there aren't too surprising, but it's nice to see a recap of some of the more well known spots to help keep that history alive.

As an Arizona native, I've always pronounced it Grand not Grande, and the majority of AZ natives do too. But it's funny because even the residents of Casa Grande even argue over how its pronounced. And watching this video is actually really cool to see what's in my state. I love abandoned places, so definitely adding these to my list!

As a [woman] truck driver I've bypassed those abandoned sites several times and they sadden me, but still I've felt that they have something magical. I'm Greek not telated to any Indian tribe, but i always used to have a huge respect for their culture, history and respect towards nature. So when i left Greece my fellow teachers at the High school i used to work back then gave me as a gift 2 books about Navaho, to wish me goodbye. One day at a checkpoint in AZ a woman officer saw my Navaho chief tattoo on my arm and she got excited: she was a Navaho! It was weird, as if the other teachers in Greece knew that in the fiture I'd be driving a semi truck (10 years now). Thanks for this video, it revived route 66 in my heart❤

The domes from the beginning of the video were demolished not too long ago. They had repeatedly found bodies in trash bags. And the place was extremely haunted I have been there myself a few times and can personally attest to that

I used to eat at that Pancake House in 2002, on my way to and from Witch Wells, where I lived. I have memories of it. So strange to see it as a ruin now. Cool video.

As a veteran urban explorer of California and Maine, I recommend ditching the "creepy" gimmick because that's all it is. Just enjoy abandoned properties for what they are.

I like the ones without graffiti. Ot takes away the history and mood to see that tons of people have been there and graffitied the walls.

Keep in mind that travel on Apache land requires a permit. Don’t push that envelope

Santa claus Arizona is totally gone 3 years ago. I almost bought it in the 1970s but the Duval mine owned the waterline. Many wells were drilled to no avail. Vandalism and taggers really did a number on it.

We drove route 66 in 1976 when I was 10. I have pictures of some of those places around here somewhere. We drove all the way from Sana Monica to Chicago. Good Times.

I have visited several of these. I have even eaten in the pancake house when it was open, though they had already closed the "Fort". It wasn't bad but they were not really welcoming to tourists, it seemed they were catering to local folks. As others have said, the domes are gone. They were an experimental design that didn't really work out. As for Phoenix Mart, there are rumors of Mob involvement, or other shady dealings as part of the reason why the financing fell through. It is interesting to know about the resort near the Salt River Canyon, if that had worked out, it would have been a nice destination.

I was born in Globe Arizona and raised in Prescott Arizona :) I now live in Las Vegas. I miss AZ for sure.

Wow! I visited the F troop fort as a small child..always wondered where that was. Thanks.

There's an abandoned mine that we called, "Devil's Cavern" in between Chuchu, and Casa Grande. I've visited it a few times, even though it is private Reservation land. It's an amazing site. A crevice in the side of a mountain that opens up to an open air area inside the mountain. There's still metal spikes in the walls, a small well water hole with fish, a deep shaft that is so deep, you can't hear a rock hit the bottom. It's temperature is cool, even in the summer. It's a very creepy place. I've heard some crazy stuff goes on there much like the domes in Casa Grande, (which are actually tore down now).

I grew up in Golden Valley, AZ in the 70's and we went to the santa clause village all the time! As kids is was great, it was staffed and had places we could play, snacks....it was magical. This makes me sad 😢

I remember very clearly stopping at the Fort Courage site as an seven year old in 1974 on a road trip from Albuquerque to Salt Lake City with my mother and grandmother. It was pretty cool. Gassed up and ate at the pancake house. Still have an old photograph from there.

The Silverado development is interesting, but the housing crash isn’t what totally killed it. There was supposed to be a solar plant, but there wasn’t enough groundwater to support the community and the plant. Kinda seems like something you’d ensure up front, but I’m not a land developer, so...

We visited this place last November, 2022 on the way up to Pinetop/Showlow. Enjoyed walking around the structures.

I grew up as a kid watching F Troup. And I could spend the rest of my life living in anyone of these places. For me they'er perfect, except the fact that everybody wondering around.

I remember when the pancake house was open, we always stopped. Santa clause was always my favorite stop.

Brought back childhood memories. Thank you

Living still in AZ for almost 50 years. Been to the Gold king and when I was little saw the inside of Fort Courage. Santa Clause's owner was a lady from L.A. that was a realtor.

An army general in the 1880's called San Carlos, Hell's 65 acres. My son is a heavy equipment operator. About 4 years ago his company was trying to build those Apache's at San Carlos a one mile stretch of paved roadway. One day the operators took rifle fire from of the locals. He took out two heavy equipment tires, a windshield of a large scraper, nearly penetrated the heavy steel engine cover on a road grader. Everybody dove for cover including my son. When the shooter stopped firing every body on the construction site left and went home. My son refused to ever do another job that Indian reservation again. A couple weeks later the job super went to the tribal police to get a copy of the incident report. It read that the shooter didn't mean anything by it and it was only a pellet gun and he was shooting at birds. Hell's 65 acres still applies to this day. All Anglo workers were instructed by their boss, for their own safety, to not show up before dawn on the job site alone. Arrive in at least twos or threes.

It would be great to see establishments that have not been abandoned along Route 66.

Great compilation. Heading out that way next month and this vid just added a few more things to my list. Cheers!

In the Apache Tribal HQ at Whiteriver there is a photo taken in the 1930's that shows an early motel at the same location as the abandoned gas station at the bottom of the Salt River Canyon.

Phoenix mart would be great for year round indoor car shows.

I went to the Domes and I heard disembodied male voices and I ended up having to leave because I developed a horrible nausea feeling. It wasn't fun. One of the other members of my group felt the same and ended up sitting in the car 10 min after arriving.

Great video🤙 I love our beautiful & mysterious Arizona❣️ Arizona deserts are my favorite and can't wait to get out to metal detect some great areas this spring & summer💚🌵 I love your exploration of the abandoned motels the most in this video🌴

Years back a friend and I owned a ghost hunting business. Now I have never really been a believer of ghosts or entities. I was more of the camera guy. Until then.. At the domes we experienced footsteps, banging, and even rocks being thrown. The "shadow" is real and haunts the grounds. All of our equipment was reading to leave or die. Run.. Help me.. I was even scratched on my arm while filming. That was a shock! Pretty creepy place.

Civilization hasn't really done well out there...... but it is quite beautiful watching mother earth reclaim her own. Peace ✌️🙏

In 2008 I looked at Silverado ranch outside of Kingman AZ. It had a huge wash and full of Mojave green rattle snakes. No power or water. I think there weren’t to many people wanting to live in the middle of nowhere. It was about 40 minute drive to Kingman and still nothing to offer besides a Walmart.

My high school friend's parents own the Anasazi Inn and Trading Post. They lived in the house shown in the video behind the gas station. We both went to Flag High. I spent so much time out there with her and her family. Now mind you this was the early to mid 90s too. Thanks for bringing back some old memories!😲🤣

Sad how diverse people and their urban culture of tagging vandalism and arson has destroyed every empty or unused place .

# 4: That place was still open in 1998, which was operated as a franchise of Chevron Gas Stations. I guess Armco took over the place before shutting down. I stopped there for a Navajo Taco for lunch inside that "Pancake House" building on a road trip in June, 1998, which was a diner at the time.

I live in AZ and absolutely love it! 9 months out of the year the weather is perfect, the other 3 months is broiler hot. The desert is beautiful and I love four wheeling and camping all over it.

I traveled the salt river canyon several times since we spent summers in springerville or show low as a teen. Then as an adult i still go through there when I want a change of scenery going to texas to visit family. Also traveled all along route 66. Plus I traveled going north of flagstaff. Yes our state has such different scenery.

There is a small community called Locheil, if my spelling is correct. Its on/ near Mexico and only can be reached on a dirt road. The old schoolhouse is still there. Warning! This road is less travelled and drug traffic can be a problem. Make sure you fuel up in Nogalas before going there.

I remember one of the abandoned motels in Grey Mountains, I spent a night in Anasazi Inn in 2010 on my first trip to US. I still have fond memories and lots of pictures from the place, this video comes as a bit of shock to me!

Very nice overview, enough info to gain some insight, while piquing the curiosity for more ☺️ (By the way, it's, "Route Sixty Six." It's kind of famous. 😉)

Jessie, thank you for this post. I live in Prescott and you have peeked my interest in visiting some ot these places. I look forward to watching your other postings!! Bestregards, Bob

Wow, great video!! I’ve been to a few of these locations, but would love to visit all of them. Keep up the great work!

what a sham all that building material just left to rot instead of letting people use them and there's plenty charity's habitat for humanity at current prices that looks like millions what a waist.

Holy crap. We used to live at that last place from 2006 to 2009! I remember the absolutely insane neighbours. Two of them would build three or four houses at a time each, and lived in the unfinished house once they lost their homes in the city. Another wacky neighbour HATED the developers because he ran cattle and horses free range on that land. People driving the insane 60 miles from the city to the strange little community constantly hit his cattle. We owned one of the mobile homes out there. Both types of neighbours hated us, with the developers wanting the mobile homes to go away and us to build a McMansion (I guess so so they didn't feel so alone in being idiots with their money), and the rancher types just wanted the government building WAY out in the middle of nowhere to go away. That was so weird and cool to see.

*You are a great story teller.*

The ped bridge at Salt River Canyon was the bridge. It was pretty much a one-way when I was younger. The station there we would stop at to get snacks on the way to the White Mountains. I have seen all but the one in Kingman. You are missing a few other sites, but we will let you find those. Nice video.

I remember the iconic ancient dog/horse racetrack coliseum south of the 10 just west of Dysart. Now gone

Were any of these roadside service stops STUCKEYS? I may have misspelled it, but remember them all along freeway from California to El Paso Texas. Pecan logs were my favorite thing about STUCKEYS.

Growing up in Window Rock, the Pancake House was operational until mid 2009.y memory isn't the brightest, but i do remember RV and Semi trucks parked outside the pancake house.

Many of these are on tribal lands. Please respect and don't trespass. Try Wupatki NM near Flag. You'll see plenty of amazing 'ghost towns' there.

3:52 im shocked by how good the signs still look after being abandoned for multiple years

Great collection and there are so many other abandoned places around the Grand Canyon State … my favourite is all the nothing found in Nothing AZ on US-93 (future I-11).

It’s Route 66 (sixty six) not route 6-6 (six-six) It has a whole history of its own.

Like so much in life, it all came down to money. The interstate bypassing towns on Route 66, mostly in the 1970s spelled the end of prosperity for the smallest of towns and the one stop trading posts. Some such as Winslow and Holbrook hung in there but still face difficult times. Route 66 travelers have pumped much needed dollars back into these communities. I believe it's west of the town of Gray Mountain is the site of a 1957 KC-97 military transport plane crash. I hear the wreckage is still there and only accessible to hikers.

Great memories. Like many others watching, long lineage of born and raised AZ. So sad what developers and investors have done and are doing this once great state. And yes, I know every place has to grow.. but it wouldn't hurt to put some time and integrity in to what they're "developing." #EndRant...sorry - Thank you for this video...

The domes we're just demolished a few months ago

As someone from Arizona I’m glad your video finally stumbled upon my feed. I only knew about the mine mansion behind the Hualapies, still haven’t visited.

All those sharp spire covered overhangs like that gas station the overhang ended in a point.

I just moved to Arizona for adventure so I'm adding this to the list!

Outstanding video I really enjoyed it! It never ceases to amaze me that you can go way off the grid in the middle of nowhere to some dilapidated structures, and some Nimrod with a spray can will decorate the place with some graffiti. Like an amateur gang member practicing until they can hit the big time and do a bridge or a freight train.

Bloody hell !!! My wife and I came over from the UK in 2007 and stayed in the motel at Grey Mountain on a west coast road trip, it wasn’t the greatest then but it served its purpose for the night. It’s a shame to see it abandoned.

I remember watching F Troop. It wasn't on TV very long, but it was funny. I'm turning 70 this month, I'm a baby boomer, so I was a young teenager when that show was on.

Wow thank you. To bad people destroy things that don't belong to them! It was nice to see some of my old memories of route 66 I had gone on it with my mom and grandma to go back and see family. Thank you for sharing this 🥰🖤

seneca was going to be nice place i drive that area all the time but i remeber seeing some brochures when i was young back in late 70s & 80s

The domes are officially gone.

Enjoyed this thoroughly. Pro Tip: for top 10 videos, always count down to #1.

Route Sixty Six, not Six Six.

There are some absolutely awesome Native American artists out there. Many of them never get their art out beyond the reservation.

I heard that the Casa Grande Domes aren't there anymore. I can't remember wether they finished falling apart or they got taken down! 🤔

While I was out hiking it started to rain. Looking around for shelter I saw an abandoned car. I got in and immediately was impressed at how well preserved it was. It was obviously from the early 20's, but was in surprisingly good shape. I was admiring the wood grain on the dash when the door suddenly opened and some guy told me to get out of his car! He looked kind of mad, so I exited and quickly walked away. I quickly found another shelter from the rain at the Walmart entrance that the car was abandoned in front of. The Walmart clearly wasn't abandoned, but people were still walking in and out like they owned the place. So, I figured what the heck, if they can wander around inside without being hassled, so could I. Follow me for ways to find more "abandoned" shelters!

I use to live really close to the Silverado subdivision. Drove past it many times. Those houses where really beautiful. All of the had glass at firsts. Air soft is played there along. I keep hearing the properties have been forsale but never anything new done. The office is not far from there, still lived in to my knowledge

That Phoenix Mart probably is not abandoned any more. They literally have been building those non stop all over AZ. Would not surprise me if Amazon finishes it

Oh that abandoned mall like building… Lucid and Nikola are both likely to abandon huge facilities like that.

What a beautiful nature/places/shots 🔥

Cool video. You crack me up how you say Route Sixty Six. "Route Six Six".

I spent ten very long years living in Coolidge, AZ and I watched the Arizona Phoenix Mart being built… and then it wasn’t. I’m a Tucson Arizona native and I have heard the promises of growth around Casa Grande as long as I can remember. At least back to the 1960’s. Arizona has long been a place where semi-shady folks can pitch their dreams. Real Estate schemes, especially, have been popular since before we became a state. My folks bought some useless property in the 1960’s. It was several lots a few miles east of Holbrook, AZ and just south of I-40. The property sits on a large underground salt dome and has no access to potable water. The entire development sits nearly empty today. Just a few old scattered trailer homes and dirt streets with street signs no one reads.

Hey , Jessie. Perhaps we could join up sometime and do some exploring , sometime . I'm retired and always want to see around the next corner or over the next hill . I've been rc modeler for years . Haven't tried fpv yet though. Have you built any of your own machines ? Have a great evening . Thanks for sharing your time and adventures. Stay safe buddy . Terry

I used to live about two miles west of Fort Courage, salvaged some old materials to make a shed/garage for Austin Sam,an old friend who knew Tony Hillerman and is mentioned in Sacred Clowns. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.

I am from Holbrook and my friends dad owned that painted desert hotel and the rock shop up from it. He passed about ten years ago and the hotel has not been rented since then and even then I don’t think it has been a suitable hotel since maybe even the 70s … I think that even from the late 90s it was only used for self storage.

I drove past the abandoned Phoenix Mart complex on AZ 287 just East of Casa Grande. That building sits empty, abandoned and the same Phoenix Mart company was going to take ove an abandoned Outlet center in Casa Grande which it didn’t. That abandoned shopping outlet complex would make a great campus for Central Arizona College to take over and have a Casa Grande campus in addition to its main campus instead letting that a banded Tanger Factory Putlet Center.

I knew the kid whose family owned the gas station in Salt River and used to live out there. They were a White Mountain Apache family who moved closer to the Casino. The kid went to Blue Ridge High School with me and was on my Cross Country team.

4:57. The bridge you can walk across WAS the old highway we traveled on in the 40s and 50s.

Very cool video...some of these sites would be great for future episodes of the Walking Dead! In my neck of the woods there are dozens of abandoned cabins, inns & other structures in the Delaware Water Gap Nat'l Rec Area. I found one cabin along the Indian Ladders Trail that was open & totally intact! It was furnished in all the rooms & even had old family pictures on the walls & 30 year old newspapers. Since it still had power I think it's used by the park rangers from time to time!

You could add the whole town of Holbrook to that. I don't think there is a town in AZ that has done less in the past 50-100 years.