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Do stretches of the old road still exist, but they're just called something else now?

The old road still exists, but it goes by different numbers depending on location. Due to the historical and cultural significance of this road, at many locations there are markers indicating that at one time it was part of "Route 66".

To this day there are web sites devoted to keeping the memory of Route 66 alive. This is one I've been consulting recently: