US 60

Public Information Officer Garin Groff has updates on a major I-10 improvement underway on the Tucson area's northwest side, a major interchange under construction in Kingman and our project replacing two US 60 bridges just east of Superior. 

Full closures for this project, which is replacing the Queen Creek Bridge and Waterfall Canyon Bridge east of Superior, are normally scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, as needed, for blasting and cleanup.

A mystery surrounds the disappearance of a historical marker along US 60 that commemorated a silver mining ghost town.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising motorists to plan for lane restrictions and delays for a pavement improvement project on US 60 north of Globe that is scheduled to begin Monday, June 17.

The Arizona Department of Transportation reminds motorists who travel on US 60 between Miami and Superior to plan ahead for about six months of three times-a-week daytime closures starting Thursday, May 16. This start date is one day later than originally announced for a project involving rock blasting as work begins to replace the Queen Creek and Waterfall Canyon bridges. 

The Arizona Department of Transportation reminds motorists who travel on US 60 between Miami and Superior to plan ahead for about six months of three times-a-week daytime closures starting Thursday, May 16. This start date is one day later than originally announced for a project involving rock blasting as work begins to replace the Queen Creek and Waterfall Canyon bridges. 

Lane restrictions for pavement sealing work are scheduled along US 60 (Grand Avenue) between 163rd Avenue (west of Loop 303) and Center Street in Wittmann this weekend. Allow extra travel time. Learn more in this ADOT news release.

Motorists who travel on US 60 between Miami and Superior should plan ahead for about six months of three times-a-week daytime closures starting Wednesday, May 15, as rock blasting begins for a project to replace the Queen Creek and Waterfall Canyon bridges.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is replacing two bridges on US 60 east of Superior with spans designed to handle passenger and commercial traffic for decades to come.

The 2023 America’s Transportation Awards named the effort Best Use of Technology and Innovation, Medium Project, for the Western region. The competition is sponsored by AASHTO, an association representing highway and transportation departments nationwide.

WICKENBURG, AZ – The Arizona Department of Transportation will be performing pavement improvements along a 23-mile stretch of US 60 west of Wickenburg beginning Monday, May 9.

The work will take place between the communities of Wenden and Aguila (mileposts 63 to 86) and involve spot pavement repairs and chip sealing where needed. Crews will also perform a micro seal from mileposts 82 to 85.

SHOW LOW – With warmer temperatures returning, the Arizona Department of Transportation will resume repaving 11 miles of US 60 and SR 260 in Show Low on Sunday, April 10.

The projects, which started last summer, include repaving US 60, known locally as Deuce of Clubs Avenue, from milepost 336, just outside the Show Low city limits, to Adams Street. Crews are also repaving SR 260, known locally as White Mountain Boulevard, from US 60 to Wagon Wheel Road.

Freeway models are used to show the public what a future highway may look like. This one is from the late 1960s.

SHOW LOW – Did you know that about 60% of all roadway fatalities in Arizona are the result of vehicles leaving the road? That’s why the Arizona Department of Transportation has started a new project along US 60 west of Show Low to create a space for those vehicles to safely stop and recover.

On US 60 west of Show Low, there have been 11 fatal and 34 serious injury crashes over the last 10 years between mileposts 292 and 340. Many of these crashes involved leaving the roadway.

 

US 60 has reopened to traffic between Superior and Miami after this morning's full closure.

ADOT and the project team would like to thank the public for their patience during the unexpected delay to remove a section of the old Pinto Creek Bridge.

No additional full closures are anticipated for the Pinto Creek project. However, motorists will encounter minor intermittent delays through autumn as crews haul material and debris out of the project site.

 

GLOBE  – US 60 will close between Superior and Miami between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, while crews continue work to remove the old Pinto Creek Bridge.

During the closure, US 60 traffic will be detoured to SR 177 in Superior and SR 77 in Globe. The detour includes a 10% grade and will significantly increase travel time. Traffic will not be allowed to queue at the closure locations.

Salome was made famous by larger-than-life Arizona legend Dick Wick Hall, who founded and named the town and was well known of his humorous pokes at Arizona's weather. 

 

GLOBE – While motorists who routinely travel between Superior and the Globe-Miami area may not know what’s involved with maintaining and repairing the only highway between the communities, they’ve come to know even small projects can mean big travel delays.

So when the Arizona Department of Transportation planned the most disruptive local project in recent memory - a five-day closure of US 60 for a bridge replacement project - work crews planned ahead to take advantage of a nearly traffic-free road.

US 60 has reopened between Superior and Miami after maintenance crews with the Arizona Department of Transportation repaired extensive flood damage that forced the highway to close early Wednesday.

Our project on US 60 at Pinto Creek is more than just a new bridge going up. It's a new part of the road's history.