Cool Springs , AZ
Cool Springs is the first little settlement you will encounter on your way up the Oatman Highway. It's 15 miles strait across a valley and sits at the foot of the mountains.
This place was built in the 1920s, and from the beginning was an important stopping point for gas and supplies for Route 66 motorists. By the 1930s, there were eight cabins and a restaurant specializing in sandwiches and chicken dinners. After Cool Springs was bypassed, it held on for a while, but was burned to the ground in the mid-1960s. Today, all that is left is a small stone store built in 1926, a gift shop and a museum. The antique gas pumps in front give a feel for how traveling the old road must have been.
In 1991, it was used as a set (that got blown up) in the Dolph Lundgren-Jean Claude Van Dam movie Universal Soldier.
From Cool Springs, follow Oatman Hwy to Ed's Camp
From Cool Springs, follow Oatman Hwy - Go right at the Stop and cross under I-40 - Go left onto the Frontage Rd toward Kingman - Follow the Frontage Rd onto Andy Devine/Route 66 to Downtown Kingman
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