Re: DLC Arizona
Posted: 19 Jun 2016 23:43
Actually, ScuL that isn't quite correct. when the rockside blocked 89 ADOT (Arizona Department of Transportation) decided to pave over a strech of road used by the Navajo Nation. They named that strech 89-T (T for temporary) 89A was still open during that incident. hwy 89 used to be more curvy back in the day and I think it was redone some 50 years ago to be more of a straight path, and to connect to Page and Glen Canyon Dam. When the new hwy 89 came into service the old portion was re-designated from US-89 to US-89A (A for Alternate) the route remains for the reasons I gave above. There is also some scattered remnants of the old 89 as you leave Grey Mountain and where it rejoins the new path at Willow Springs. https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9634986 ... !1e3?hl=en zoom on in with google earth maps overlay and you can see what I'm saying.
The lower portion of 89A is a state route only it was never part of the US-89 path. It was constructed to so you didn't have to drive all the way to Ash Fork to re-join US-89. SR-89A goes out the south end of Flagstaff, heads down into Oak Creek Canyon through Sedona, Cottonwood, Clarkdale, then turns south into up the Black Hills past Jerome, Prescott, through the Bradshaw Mountains past Yarnell and Congress and joining US-93 at its terminating point. Not many trucks dare the switchbacks in Oak Creek Canyon so that stretch is used mostly by cars. the rest of the hwy though does see truck traffic though.
The lower portion of 89A is a state route only it was never part of the US-89 path. It was constructed to so you didn't have to drive all the way to Ash Fork to re-join US-89. SR-89A goes out the south end of Flagstaff, heads down into Oak Creek Canyon through Sedona, Cottonwood, Clarkdale, then turns south into up the Black Hills past Jerome, Prescott, through the Bradshaw Mountains past Yarnell and Congress and joining US-93 at its terminating point. Not many trucks dare the switchbacks in Oak Creek Canyon so that stretch is used mostly by cars. the rest of the hwy though does see truck traffic though.