DelSue Motor Inn

When the automobile remade travel, the motor court replaced the railroad hotel, and Williams filled up with them. The DelSue Motor Inn is one of the survivors, a modest mid-century auto court of the kind that lined Route 66 by the hundreds, built for families who wanted to park at the door and sleep cheap on the drive west. Most were bulldozed once the interstate stole their traffic. This one earned a place on the National Register instead, a small monument to the golden age of the road trip.

What the plaque says

DelSue Motor Inn. . This property has been placed on the , National Register of Historic Places , by the United States Department of the Interior.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Williams — steps away
  The last town on Route 66 to lose its traffic to the interstate — a rail gateway to the Grand Canyon since 1901, bypassed only in 1984 after a court fight, and revived twice over.
• Oak Creek Canyon — 31 mi
  The switchback drive from red rock to ponderosa on State Route 89A

More markers nearby

• Williams, Arizona — steps away
• Grand Canyon Hotel — steps away
• Last Town Bypassed by I-40 — 0.2 mi
• Santa Fe Railway Freight Depot — 0.2 mi