City approximately 57 miles (92 km) southeast of Flagstaff, where U.S. Route 66 originally routed through the city and achieved national fame in 1972 for the Eagles / Jackson Browne song “Take It Easy”
General Information
Individual attractions, shops, and restaurants operate on varying schedules
Individual attractions, museums, and events may have separate fees
How to Get There
From Flagstaff (55 mi): Take I‑40 E from Flagstaff and continue east for approximately 55 miles to reach Winslow along historic Route 66.
Overview
Winslow is a small northern Arizona city on old Route 66, about 57 miles east of Flagstaff, and is famous around the world thanks to the Eagles’ 1972 hit “Take It Easy,” with its line about “standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.” Visitors come to stand on that corner, tour the beautifully restored La Posada Hotel and use the town as a base for Meteor Crater, the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park.
Winslow was a railroad and Route 66 town, named for either railroad president Edward F. Winslow or a local prospector, and it was thriving until Interstate 40 bypassed it in the 1970s and many downtown businesses closed. The community revived itself by embracing its song.
Things to Do
- Standin’ on the Corner Park: opened in 1999, with a two-story trompe-l’œil mural by John Pugh, a flatbed Ford, and a bronze statue of a man with a guitar. A statue of Glenn Frey was added in 2016.
- La Posada Hotel: the last of the Harvey Houses, designed by Mary Colter and opened in 1930. It closed in 1957, was slated for demolition in 1994, and was bought and restored by Allan Affeldt and reopened as a hotel.
- Nearby: Meteor Crater, the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest (about 60 miles east) and the Little Painted Desert (18 miles north).
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Winslow, Arizona", and "Standin' on the Corner Park", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
