Cucamonga Service Station & Route 66 Museum

Built around 1915, pumping gas when the road out front became Route 66 in 1926, and restored by volunteers a century later, the Cucamonga Service Station is the one Route 66 stop in the city you can actually walk into. It made the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 as the only surviving service station of its original design on the California stretch of the route.

The museum inside is small, dense, and free to enter, run by people who will talk your ear off about the road in the best way. Vintage pumps, oil-company signage, and photographs of Foothill Boulevard when it carried Okies, GIs, and station wagons west. With the Route 66 centennial running all through 2026, this is the anchor stop for any drive down Foothill.

Give it thirty minutes, drop something in the donation box, and check the Pancake Breakfast & Poker Run in September — proceeds fund the restoration.