how do I map my text box string into my url route? - asp.net-mvc

I have a text box that I enter data into and pass with a post to my 'home' controller on action 'results'
I want the url to end up looking like this when I post back
https://localhost:44301/Home/Results/San Francisco, CA, United States
I'm passing the text box data like this.
#using (Html.BeginForm("Results", "Home", FormMethod.Get, new { #class = "navbar-form navbar-left", role = "search" }))
{
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" id="navbarautocomplete" name="location">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</div>
}
Here is my routing.
routes.MapRoute("SearchResults",
"home/results/{location}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Results", location = ""}
);
How do I set my routing or my form to see the data that has been submitted as location in my url?
I can get it to look like this.
https://localhost:44301/home/results?location=San+Francisco%2C+CA%2C+United+States
but I want san francisco after /results/

As #StephenMuecke mentions in the comments, you could POST your search value to a (separate) action, then redirect to your results page, passing the location as a parameter:
#using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Home", FormMethod.Post, new { #class = "navbar-form navbar-left", role = "search" }))
{
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" id="navbarautocomplete" name="location">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</div>
}
Then in your controller:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Search(string location)
{
return RedirectToAction("Results", new { location = location });
}
public ActionResult Results(string location)
{
return Content("location is: " + location);
}
You'll also to have the following route set up in your RouteConfig to get the friendly URL (make sure this is above the default route, as they match top-down).
routes.MapRoute(
name: "SearchResults",
url: "Home/Results/{location}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Results" }
);

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Edited: due to #Ben Griffiths answer:
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