U.S. Route 80 in Arizona structures including historic motor hotels among other roadside attractions and local businesses. This list follows the 1951 alignment. The following is an incomplete list of notable attractions and structures along old US 80 in Arizona: U.S. Route 80 in Arizona U.S. Route 80 (US 80) also known as the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, the Broadway of America and the Jefferson Davis Highway was a major transcontinental highway which existed in the U.S. state of Arizona from November 11, 1926, to October 6, 1989. At its peak, US 80 traveled from the California border in Yuma to the New Mexico state line near
U.S. Route 80 in Arizona was bypassed in 1956 to cross the Colorado River, while the later alignment continued straight ahead into California. Upon crossing the Colorado River to the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, the older route was still in Arizona. Unlike most of the California and Arizona state border which resides along the Colorado River, the border temporarily cuts north here through the Reservation then east back to the Colorado. This places several acres of land on the western side of the river in Arizona. For a few hundred feet, the state border runs along the western shoulder of pre-1956 US 80. A short