Which Route 66 landmark near Amarillo, Texas, features ten buried Cadillac cars?

Cadillac Ranch is the Amarillo-area Route 66 landmark featuring ten buried Cadillac cars.

The art installation was created in 1974 by the Ant Farm collective for Stanley Marsh 3, an eccentric Amarillo patron. The cars represent Cadillac models spanning several generations, from the 1949 Club Sedan to the 1963 Sedan de Ville. They are buried nose-first in a field west of Amarillo.

Cadillac Ranch sits near the historic Route 66 corridor, although the interstate and modern road alignments now carry much of the through traffic. Visitors have traditionally been encouraged to add paint to the vehicles, so the cars’ appearance changes constantly.

The installation is not a junkyard or a collection of abandoned vehicles. It is a deliberate work of public art that uses a familiar American automobile brand to suggest changing design, status, and roadside culture. Its colorful layers of paint have made it one of Texas’s most recognizable Route 66 attractions.