Cucamonga Service Station

A small white frame service station on Foothill Boulevard — Route 66 — restored to its 1915 appearance and now operated as a free visitor centre. Twin period gas pumps stand under the canopy out front, and the interior holds a small collection of Route 66 memorabilia, oil cans, and station signage. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

It is a fifteen-minute stop. The volunteer staff are usually present on weekends and happy to talk through the history. The station marks the official western end of the Route 66 Inland Empire heritage corridor.

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Built in 1915, the station predates Route 66 itself — when the federal highway was officially designated in 1926 the road simply absorbed the existing Foothill Boulevard alignment, and the station found itself on the Mother Road. It pumped Richfield and later Mobil gas continuously until closing in the 1970s, then sat boarded up for thirty years until a community fundraising campaign restored it as a small museum.

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