This little bit of freeway was inbuilt 1919, solely to be deserted in 1952 with the opening of a safer, trendy tunnel straight by way of the the craggy Arizona mountain. It runs 21 miles from Superior, Arizona to Miami (Arizona, not Florida). This highway will need to have been pretty harmful again within the day attributable to steep uphill and downhill slopes, slender roads and rock falls. There’s additionally the difficulty of drivers dealing with the selection of both a strong wall of rock or a deathly drop, ought to one thing go awry on the slender hairpin turns up and down a canyon.
As a result of size of time its been closed and the repurposing of the highway for the enjoyment of hikers and rock climbers, this one seems least like a highway anymore. Nonetheless, should you go to this deserted freeway, you might be welcomed right into a park relatively than warned with an “Enter At Your Personal Danger” signal, and the views across the previous freeway are spectacular.
It’s fairly wild to suppose it solely took solar, rain and the passing of 70 years for this highway to change into nearly utterly unrecognizable in elements.
