Sedona Road Improvement has begun

[katiemack Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close katiemack]

The first week of construction has nearly finished, and if you are planning a trip to Sedona, you can visit the construction website for updates:

www.scenic179.com

[Anne1125 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Anne1125]

Katiemack, we are going to Sedona next March. Will this construction be between the Phoenix airport and Arroyo Roble?

Thanks,

Anne

[katiemack Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close katiemack]

Hi, Anne,

When you come to Sedona, you will leave PHX via I-17, the north-south highway. The most direct and oft-used exit is the Sedona exit off I-17, exit 298.

If you come into Sedona via Hwy 179 (exit 298 off i-17), you will meet the construction on that roadway.

The construction should be happening from just south of the beginning of the Village of Oak Creek, near Beaverhead Flat Rd. to Back o' Beyond Road... roughly about a 10 mile stretch of road.

Hwy 179 is considered the main access road that most people use to get to the city of Sedona, and it is probably the one is posted on the directions to Arroyo Roble. Hwy 179 leads to the "y" intersection at Hwy 89A, and there you turn right to go to Uptown Sedona, and to Arroyo Roble.

You don't have to use Hwy 179 to get to Sedona, though you do have to use HWY 179 if you are going to the Village of Oak Creek and staying at the Ridge, a Sunterra property.

There is a way to get to Sedona thru Hwy 260, another exit off I-17...it is around exit 287, about 10 miles south, before the exit for Sedona.

You take that road, HWY 260, norththru Cottonwood, to Hwy 89 A, (turning left at the Home Depot), and drive in thru the west side of the city of Sedona (if you were going to Sunterra The Summit or Villas of Sedona/Fairfield or Sedona Springs...you probably would prefer to use this route if the construction is a problem)...drive thru West Sedona, pass the "Y' intersection (where HWY 179 and HWY 89A meet) and land at Arroyo Roble, thereby bypassing the construction on Hwy 179.

I don't know if you will find that the best route in March or not....as you get closer to the trip, post here again and I will be happy to let you know what the construction problems may or may not be.

Hwy 179 is going to be re-designed into a split roadway between Bell Rock and Back o' Beyond....looping into the forest service land.

The construction chief claims that there will be very little stopping of traffic during the construction.....they plan to build several of the roundabouts early in the project.

[Anne1125 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Anne1125]

Thanks Katiemack.

[katiemack Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close katiemack]

You're welcome, Anne....and as you approach the date for your trip, please let me know so I can give you an update.....