Yarnell, Arizona

Route: US 60 to US 93 to AZ 89 (CLICK HERE FOR ROUTE INFO)

Time: 2 hours

Distance: 85+ Miles (from Phoenix)

The southern terminus of SR 89 is located at a junction with U.S. Route 93 northwest of Wickenburg. It is a largely north–south route; the largest city through which it now passes is Prescott, Arizona, where it meets State Route 69 and the extremely scenic State Route 89A. The segment between Prescott and Congress, Arizona (junction State Route 71) is quite scenic. The northern terminus of the highway is located at an interchange with I-40 in Ash Fork.

It is a segment of the former U.S. Route 89 between Ash Fork at I-40 and US 93 northwest of Wickenburg, Arizona. All of US 89 was deleted south of its current southern terminus with Interstate 40 in Flagstaff, Arizona after Interstates offered shorter and more direct routes than the old long-distance US 89 in central and southern Arizona.

There is not much in Yarnell, a few good places to eat, Frog Rock Cafe, is before Yarnell Hill. There is a great Restaurant at the top of Yarnell Hill on the right side just as you come into town.  Great ride, just to get out of town for a bit and enjoy a really small town! Watch out for the Cops while racing up Yarnell, it can be very fun, but also very inforgiving of mistakes. There are guardrails missing in certian spots not that they would do much good as there are very long drops in  most turns.

 

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