Arizona State Route 80 was a section between Tombstone and Bisbee. The entire route had been paved by 1935. The highway would continue to serve as a portion of US 80 until 1989 when the last portion of US 80 in Arizona was removed. This portion of the highway was redesignated as SR 80 at this time. Arizona State Route 80 State Route 80 (SR 80) is a roughly arc-shaped highway lying in southeastern Arizona that, with New Mexico's State Road 80, is a relic of the old U.S. Route 80, now truncated from San Diego to Dallas. This segment of old US 80
Interstate 10 in Arizona were laid out along railroad tracks, and US 60/US 70 was routed mostly parallel to the Santa Fe rail tracks east of Wickenburg, and the Arizona and California Railway west to Vicksburg. The two old federal routes then struck west across the desert and state line, picking up the Southern Pacific mainline at Indio, California, and I-10 overlies the old roads most of that distance. Moving east from the California line at Ehrenburg, I-10 follows the old route of US 60/US 70 for the first east from Blythe, California. In 1960, this western-most stretch of I-10 was built from near