Grants Route 66 NEON

Grants Glows! Grants glows with neon street art. Grants also had a different glow, glowing with Uranium! Wikipedia states, “The Grants Mining District in northwestern New Mexico is a premier historical U.S. uranium hub, having produced over 30% of the nation’s uranium from 1948-2002 with significant reserves remaining.

Take a trip through our slideshow and enjoy the show. Click on an image to freeze the slideshow, click again to restart. The notation “gone” refers to the sign has been removed. The notation “dark” means that the sign is not working.

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Special thanks to all our photographers, Johnnie Meier, Cindy Carson, Rhys Martin, Jim Thole. Additional images selected from around the internet.