Phoenix metropolitan area arterial roads
Although Broadway Road maintains the same name through Goodyear, Avondale, Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and Apache Junction, each town uses a different reference point for address numbers.
[2] This line runs east–west from the "zero point" atop a hill near the confluence of the Gila and Salt rivers, on Avondale Boulevard (115th Avenue) at Baseline Road.
Starting from east, the road begins in Apache Junction in Pinal County, named Baseline Avenue and is a small segment of thoroughfare in a residential neighborhood at the foothills of the Superstition Mountains.
Bell Road is one of the few roadways to cross the Agua Fria River in the northern part of the metro area, providing a link between the growing suburb of Surprise with Phoenix.
West of the Beardsley Canal, the roadway curves around the White Tank Mountain Regional Park, becoming the Sun Valley Parkway through northern Buckeye.
[7] In this area of Scottsdale, a non-contiguous segment of Bell Road approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) long exists north of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, which includes an intersection with the eastern leg of State Route 101.
The street stretches continuously for approximately 33 miles from Scottsdale in the east to Litchfield Park in the west, and runs through the city of Phoenix.
Carefree Highway heads east as a two-lane road through open desert in the northern parts of Peoria and then the North Gateway urban village of the city of Phoenix.
SR 74 reaches its eastern terminus at the partial cloverleaf interchange with I-17; Carefree Road continues east as a four-lane divided municipal highway.
Cave Creek Road enters the Desert View urban village as it crosses over the Central Arizona Project aqueduct.
The highway curves north-north-east toward Cave Creek, drops to four lanes, and passes through several miles of open desert between lobes of suburban sprawl.
At the southwest corner of downtown Mesa, Country Club Drive has a one-quadrant interchange with Broadway Road and then immediately passes under the Union Pacific Railroad main line.
The highway extends from 44th Street in far southern Phoenix east through Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, and Mesa to Meridian Road at the Maricopa–Pinal county line.
Elliot Road is part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial from Interstate 10 (I-10) at the Phoenix–Tempe border east to Arizona State Route 202 (SR 202) in Mesa.
Elliot Road crosses the East Maricopa Floodway and expands to a six-lane divided highway at its diamond interchange with SR 202 (Santan Freeway).
Gilbert Road begins at a southern point of Arizona State Route 87 and after passing by Gila River Resorts and Casino, the highway continues and passes through Chandler for five miles, where after Germann Road, the highway follows the border between the city of Chandler to the west, and the city of Gilbert to the east, and has a diamond interchange with Arizona State Route 202 (SR 202; Santan Freeway).
Some of the venues associated with the Grand Avenue art scene include the Trunk Space, the Lodge Art Parlor, ShopDevious, the Icon Gallery, the Chocolate Factory, the Paisley Violin, La Melgosa Complex: Deus Ex Machina, the Phoenix Fall Space, Stop n' Look & Comet's Corner, the Annex: Soul Invictus, the Lucky Rabbit & Gallery Marsiglia, Lady Luck Tattoo, and other design houses and studios.
It travels east for six miles before intersecting Loop 303 (Bob Stump Memorial Parkway) at a single-point urban interchange in an unincorporated area west of Peoria.
Happy Valley Road expands to six lanes east of Loop 303 and crosses the Agua Fria River into the city of Peoria.
The principal arterial section of 83rd Avenue begins at Bell Road, which at that intersection forms the border of the cities of Peoria and Glendale.
North of its diamond interchange with SR 303, Lake Pleasant Parkway reduces to two lanes and crosses the Central Arizona Project aqueduct.
These early settlers further developed the irrigation canals that the Hohokam people originally created and built new ones to carry Salt River water to their farms.
In 1964, construction of the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was completed at the intersection of Mill Avenue and Apache Boulevard on the campus of Arizona State University.
Prompted by Tempe's centennial in 1971, Mill Avenue was revitalized into an entertainment and shopping district that attracts people from throughout the Phoenix Valley.
The highway extends from the eastern end of Northern Parkway on the Glendale–El Mirage city line east to Arizona State Route 51 (SR 51) in Phoenix.
East of the intermittent river, Northern Avenue becomes a four-lane road with center turn lane and begins to follow the Glendale–Peoria city line.
At Pecos Road, where a rail line passes diagonally through the intersection, the highway leaves Queen Creek and follows the border between Gilbert to the west and Mesa to the east.
North of the airport, Power Road has a diamond interchange with Arizona State Route 202 (SR 202; Santan Freeway) and reduces to a four-lane undivided highway with center turn lane.
Immediately north of the intersection, Scottsdale Road crosses the Central Arizona Project aqueduct and borders the Desert View urban village of Phoenix on the west.
East of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, which heads north to Taliesin West, the highway crosses the Central Arizona Project aqueduct.
