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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

A real photo postcards of Oatman, Arizona, and her early burros. Oatman is a favorite along Old Route 66. This once thriving gold mining town is now a very popular tourist destination. Oatman's "wild" burros are the descendants of burros brought here by the miners in the late 1800s; when the miners no longer needed them, they were turned loose. Each morning they come into town looking for food. They wander the streets and greet the tourists. Burro pellets are for sale at many of the shops -- the burros will eat all day if you feed them. Shortly before sunset, they wander back to the hills for the night.

Oatman's still a great stop on old Route 66 - a fun, out of the way place to see whenever we're road tripping (a god diversion from the 40!).
In fact, it's at the beginning of one of the longest continuous stretches of the old road that still exists, and the landscape is spectacular!