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Cave Creek Road begins at a five-way intersection with north–south Seventh Street and east–west Dunlap Road in the North Mountain urban village of the city of Phoenix. The highway heads northeast as a four-lane road with center turn lane between North Mountain to the west and Stoney Mountain to the east. Cave Creek Road curves north as it ...
Cave Creek flows through the western side of the town southward into Phoenix, where it disappears into the Salt River valley. In 2000, the state of Arizona, Maricopa County , and the town of Cave Creek bought Spur Cross Ranch, a 2,154-acre (8.72 km 2 ) tract of Sonoran desert just north of Phoenix, for $21 million.
Bell Road and Shea Boulevard in Phoenix are named for two farmers, James A. Shea and Harvey Bell, who later on formed the Paradise Verde Irrigation District in the early 20th century in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain water to irrigate the area. The old state route that is now Cave Creek Road went between Phoenix and the town of Cave Creek ...
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Carefree and Cave Creek are sometimes thought of as a single community. [8] The two towns share the local landmark Black Mountain , which rises more than 1,000 feet (300 m) above them, to an elevation of 3,398 feet (1,036 m).
While Carefree and Cave Creek are today a home for upper-income retirees and an enclave for artists and entrepreneurs, the first inhabitants of the area surrounding Black Mountain were Native Americans known as the Hohokam, who appeared about 750 A.D. They were an agrarian society of hunters and gatherers who also used irrigation to maintain crops.
The Cave Creek Inn was built in 1920 and is Cave Creek's longest operating commercial building. It is now occupied by a restaurant. The Cave Creek Service Station was built in 1925. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [5] Frontier Town, which is also pictured, is located at 6245 E. Cave Creek Road.
The North Valley Parkway, also named the Gavilan Peak Parkway are two names for a single section of arterial parkway in Phoenix and Anthem, Arizona, generally running parallel to the Interstate 17 (I-17) from Jomax Road to north of New River Road for approximately 15 miles (24.14 km).