ninja’ed!
Icy Bay, Alaska is in front of Mount Saint Elias. Icy Bay is at the north end of the panhandle, and so is Mount Saint Elias.
Google Maps – gMap, Icy Bay
Google Maps – gMap, Mount Saint Elias
Icy Bay has formed only within the last 100 years by rapid glacier retreat, and it is part of the Wrangell–Saint Elias Wilderness.
According to Wikipedia, the glacial retreat has been happening for the last 100 years.
Don’t ninja me back, Railer13! 
The highest point in Kansas is Mount Sunflower, with an elevation of 4,039 feet. Access is via county dirt roads to the edge of the property, then across a cattle guard and onto a private dirt road through a cattle grazing pasture to the summit. Amenities at the top include a picnic table, a little free library, and a sunflower sculpture made from railroad spikes.
Just a little too slow!
US Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles (or actually, Santa Monica), goes through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The state that it comes closes to without actually entering is Nevada – Route 66 passes about 10 miles (as the crow flies) south of Laughlin NV. gMap here, Google Maps.
Route 66 passes for almost 500 miles in New Mexico (487 miles, actually), the longest in any state.
It is shortest in Kansas, at only 13 miles.
Wiki’s picture of the routing overview: U.S. Route 66 - Wikipedia
ETA: Route 66 comes close to Arkansas, but not closer than it does to Nevada. From Sulphur Springs AR to Afton OK it is about 25 miles as the crow flies. gMap here, Google Maps.
Singer/songwriter Bobby Troup was best known, at least in his musical career, for writing the pop song “Route 66.”
However, Troup was also an actor, and became well-known in the 1970s for playing surgeon Dr. Joe Early in Jack Webb’s drama about a Los Angeles County paramedic team, Emergency! Troup’s wife, singer Julie London, also co-starred in the series, as nurse Dixie McCall. Ironically, Troup was London’s second husband; her first husband had, in fact, been Jack Webb.
The first production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway on October 12, 1971. a year before it hit the London stage. The show was condemned by some Christian groups who saw the portrayal of Judas as too sympathetic, and Jesus as not holy enough.
Lloyd Webber and Rice were accused of cashing in on America’s popular “Jesus movement” but claimed to have had no knowledge of it until they came to America to promote the original album.
Another musical from the “Jesus movement”, beating JCS to the stage but having less impact by far, was Godspell, composed by Stephen Schwartz with the book by John-Michael Tebelak. It is best remembered for the song “Day by Day”. The original cast at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh included Sonia Manzano, who became Maria on “Sesame Street”.
Composer Stephen Schwartz has won three Grammy Awards, and three Academy Awards, but despite a long, successful career as a Broadway composer, he has never won a Tony for his compositions.
Schwartz has been nominated for six Tonys, for five different musicals: Pippin, Godspell, Working (for which he was also nominated for Best Book of a Musical), Rags, and Wicked, but his only Tony Award was the special Isabelle Stevenson Award, for volunteer work, which he received in 2015.
“Mr. Padre”, of MLB’s San Diego Padres, is the nickname for right fielder Tony Gwynn. Having played all of his 20 seasons with the Padres, from 1982 to 2001, Gwynn was the NL batting champion 8 times, an NL All Star 15 times, a Gold Glove Award winner 5 times, and a Silver Slugger Award winner 7 times. Gwynn had excellent 20-10 eyesight, and later in his career it decreased to 20-15. He tried wearing glasses around 1994 but stopped, fearing he “looked like a dork”. His number 19 was retired by the Padres organization. He was inducted into Cooperstown in 2007 with the seventh highest percentage in Hall of Fame voting history. Also in 2007, a 9½-foot bronze statue of him was unveiled beyond Petco Park’s outfield in an area named Tony Gwynn Plaza.
Gwynn, born in 1960, died in 2014 at age 54 from complications due to cancer. He had been diagnosed in 2010 with cancer of a salivary gland. He attributed his cancer to the dipping tobacco habit that he had since playing rookie ball in Walla Walla in 1981.
Fred Gwynne’s performance as Jud Crandall in the movie Pet Sematary was based on author Stephen King himself, who at 6’4" is only an inch shorter than the actor, and uses a similarly thick Maine dialect.
Fred Gwynne came to hate the character of Herman Munster. He felt that role kept him typecast for years.
Allen Reed was best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone, whom he played from 1960 until his death in 1977. He was born Herbert Theodore Bergman and in the early stages of his career used the name Teddy Bergman when playing non-comedic roles.
Allen Reed made a guest appearance on the Dick Van Dyke Show as an auctioneer. He actually looks like Fred Flintstone.
Fred Vinson of Kentucky, a former Secretary of the Treasury, was named to the Supreme Court by his friend President Harry S Truman in 1946. He was approved in the Senate by a voice vote and was the last Chief Justice of the United States named by a Democrat.
The Boy Scouts of America Scouting Museum is located on the campus of Murray State University, in Murray, Kentucky.
Murray Kaufman, a.k.a. “Murray the K,” was an influential rock disc jockey on various New York radio stations from the 1950s through the 1970s. Murray befriended the Beatles when they first came to the U.S. in 1964, and infamously gave himself the nickname of “the Fifth Beatle.”
The many “fifth Beatles” included George Martin, producer, Brian Epstein, manager, and Billy Preston, guest musician on Let It Be.
The Glenn L. Martin Company built WWII airplanes such as the B-26 Marauder, the A-22 Maryland, the PBM Mariner, and the JRM Mars. Martin also built over 500 Boeing B-29 Superfortress at its Omaha NE plant at Offutt Field, including all of the Silverplate aircraft, a code word for the B-29s to drop the atomic bombs. Enola Gay and Bockscar were built by Martin. A total of about 4,000 B-29s were built, but today only two are airworthy: Doc, and FIFI. Today, Sunday 06 October 2019, Doc was flying over Sacramento CA in an airshow at MHR Mather Airfield.