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Western terminus near Tuba City. The vast majority of U.S. Route 160 (US 160) through Arizona runs through rural and sparsely populated sections. As a result, the road is entirely two-lane except two short four-lane sections in Tuba City and Kayenta. [2] US 160 begins at a junction with US 89 north of Cameron within the Navajo Nation. [3]
Cameron (Navajo: Naʼníʼá Hasání) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, on the Navajo Nation. The population was 885 at the 2010 census . [ 3 ] Most of the town's economy is tourist food and craft stalls, restaurants, and other services for north–south traffic from Flagstaff and Page .
In 1961, the highway was extended further east from US 89 through Tuba City to the New Mexico state line. [4] In 1965, the portion from Teec Nos Pos was renumbered to SR 504 to match New Mexico, [ 5 ] which would be renumbered again in 1987 to US 64 . [ 6 ]
U.S. Route 160 (US 160) is a 1,465-mile-long (2,358 km) east–west United States Numbered Highway in the Midwestern and Western United States. The western terminus of the route is at US 89 five miles (8.0 km) west of Tuba City, Arizona.
The Tuba Trading Post, in Tuba City, Arizona, is a building complex which was started in 1891 by trader Charles H. Algert as a two-room shed built of native limestone. It is a mostly stone building made up of segments of different styles. [ 2 ]
This section began southeast of Tuba City and ended at a junction with SR 64 in Tuba City proper. [8] By 1961, SR 264 from the SR 64 junction to a point 46 miles (74 kilometres) southeast of Tuba City had been paved. Later that year, SR 264 was extended east to the New Mexico border, ending at the beginning of New Mexico State Road 68 (NM 68). [9]
The Tuba City Trading Post was established in 1870. It dealt with the Navajo and Paiute who came to the area for the natural springs, as well as the Hopi already in the area. European-American Mormon emigrants claimed to found Tuba City in 1872. In 1956, uranium began to be mined near Tuba City.
In the town of Cameron, the highway passes local businesses before intersecting with AZ 64, the highway that leads to the east entrance of Grand Canyon National Park. After the traffic circle with AZ 64, the road crosses over the Little Colorado River next to the decommissioned Cameron Suspension Bridge, which carried US 89 until 1959. [2] [3]