Arizona State Route 86 Arizona State Route 86 State Route 86 (or SR 86) is a state highway in southern Arizona that stretches from its junction with State Route 85 in Why east to its junction at 16th Avenue east of Interstate 19 in Tucson. It formerly went east to the New Mexico border near Lordsburg, but this eastern segment has been superseded by Interstate 10. SR 86 is the primary east–west highway through the Tohono O'odham Nation. Note that this route is commonly blocked off by US Department of Homeland Security Border Patrol Agents to perform random searches of vehicles, due to its
Arizona State Route 79 agency, as of 2011 Arizona State Route 79 was the fastest road in the nation, with the fastest 5% of the vehicles using it clocked at an average speed of 88 miles per hour. SR 79 is the section of what was together U.S. Route 80 and U.S. Route 89. US 80 was removed from Arizona in 1989, and US 89 was removed from southern Arizona in 1992. The original SR 79 was designated in 1924 as part of the original state highways from Prescott to Jerome. By 1926, it extended northeast to Flagstaff. In 1941, this was redesignated as