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Sidewalk Highway / Ribbon Road

Between Miami and Narcissa, OK
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This photo is looking east from the monument at the intersection of the Ribbon Road and Hwy 69. It was placed at the west end of the Miami section of the Ribbon Road or Sidewalk Highway in the fall of 2012. The concrete curbs of the original roadway are easily seen in this photo.

The inscription on the marker reads as follows:

Historic Route 66
Ribbon Road-
Sidewalk Highway

Completed in 1922
as Federal Highway
Project No. 8.
Running 15.46 miles
from Miami to Afton.
The only remaining 9'
section of original
pavement on
the old Route 66
system, Taken out of
service in 1937.
A National Register of
Historic Places Site.

Much of the original pavement is covered with gravel, but you can see the original pavement and curbing in many places. From this monument you go south a short way on Hwy 69 to the Technical Center where you turn west onto the southern section of the Ribbon Road which takes you the rest of the way to Afton.

Turn south on Hwy 69 when you leave here.

Photo(s): 2013