Part of Our Route 66 Everytown Collection – Romeroville Edition
Cruise the crossroads of two great trails in this ultra-soft unisex jersey tee, expertly knit from 100% Airlume-combed, ring-spun cotton. Front and center is the proud slogan "The Ozark & Santa Fe Trails Meet," celebrating Romeroville, New Mexico: the tiny high-plains waypoint where wagon ruts, auto tracks, and the Mother Road once converged.
Perfect for history hunters, road-trip romantics, and collectors of our exclusive Route 66 Everytown Collection, allowing you to carry the spirit of restless travelers and open horizons wherever you roam.
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About Romeroville, New Mexico: A Junction of Legendary Trails
Perched on the edge of the Sangre de Cristo foothills, just south of Las Vegas, lies Romeroville: a quiet crossroad with a story as old as the trails that shaped the West. In the 1880s, rancher and Territorial delegate Trinidad Romero built a grand adobe inn here to serve weary freighters and stagecoaches along the Santa Fe Trail.
Decades later, early motorists following the Ozark Trail, one of America’s first coast-to-coast auto routes, and found the same dusty junction. They raised a concrete obelisk to guide travelers heading west through the open plains.
When Route 66 arrived in 1926, it followed those same ruts in the earth. Tin Lizzies (Model Ts), cattle trucks and Okie caravans rolled past Romero’s fading inn and the few flickering gas pumps that glowed in the prairie night. Travelers stopped to refuel, study the Ozark Trail marker and push onward toward Santa Fe's mesas or the broad plains of Tucumcari.
In 1937, the highway shifted south. Yet Romeroville’s legacy as a meeting point of travelers and trails remains. Stand here today, and you’ll feel the weight of history beneath your feet, whether that is the iron wagon wheels, white-wall tires or the rumbling eighteen-wheelers all passing over the same ground.
Among sun-baked adobe ruins, the lonely Ozark Trail monument, and distant mountain silhouettes, you can almost hear the echoes of those who paused, if only for a moment, at this timeless Route 66 crossroads.
Product Features:
- 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton for premium softness
- Side seams for added structure and durability
- Tear-away label for comfort
- Classic crew neckline with a flattering unisex fit - true-to-size for all day comfort (see size chart for details)
- Fulfilled in the USA
Care Instructions:
- Machine wash: cold (max 90°F / 30°C)
- Tumble dry: low heat
- Non-chlorine bleach as needed
- Iron or steam: medium heat
- Do not dry clean
