Arizona State Route 79
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in Arizona.
Central Arizona
AZ-79 was a mountainous road, part of the most direct route between Flagstaff (its northern terminus, with old U.S. Highway 66 and Phoenix before Interstate 17 wholly supplanted it, its old southern terminus at its rural junction with Arizona State Highway 69, the latter also decommissioned south of that point in favor of Interstate 17. It passed through Camp Verde
Southern Arizona
AZ-79 is the section of what was together U.S. Highway 80 and U.S. Highway 89 before both US routes were decommissioned in southern Arizona. It has a northern terminus on U.S. Highway 60 in Florence Junction, passes through Florence, and ends four miles north of Catalina, where it ends, feeding into Arizona State Highway 77 toward Tucson. All of AZ-79 is undivided surface route, and Interstate 10 to its west (between Phoenix and Tucson, Interstate 10 is a faster, more direct route, and in fact a north-south segment of the long Interstate.