Arizona State Route 79
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State Route 79 (SR-79) may refer to either of two different north-south oriented state highways in Arizona.
[edit] Current route
The current SR-79, also known as the Pinal Pioneer Parkway, is the section of what was together U.S. Route 80 and U.S. Route 89 before both US routes were decommissioned in southern Arizona. It has a northern terminus on U.S. Route 60 in Florence Junction, passes through Florence, and ends four miles north of Catalina, feeding into State Route 77 toward Tucson. The entirety of SR-79 is a direct surface route, roughly paralleling Interstate 10 (actually a north-south segment of the normally east-west freeway) and serving as the major road to Florence (which has no Interstate access).
[edit] Former route
The original SR-79 was a mountainous road in central Arizona, part of the most direct route between Flagstaff (with its northern terminus at old U.S. Route 66) and Phoenix (with its old southern terminus at its rural junction with State Route 69). Both SR-79 and SR-69 south of their mutual junction were decommissioned in favor of Interstate 17 upon that highway's completion. SR-79 passed through Camp Verde, where this older route had two branches: State Route 179, still in use as the road to Sedona, and State Route 279 to Cottonwood, since absorbed into State Route 260.
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