U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Central
Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Ricardo Suarez
720-963-3448
ricardo.suarez@fhwa.dot.gov
dot.gov
www.cflhd.gov

August 2007
See FLH website for sources

Fact Sheet

Arizona FLHP

AZ FLHP road miles: 12,881 Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $720,140,000 Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 57.3%* AZ population: 6,166,318
National Park Service (25 units) U.S. Forest Service (6) Bureau of Indian Affairs/ Tribal Governments (23) U.S. Fish andWildlife Service (8) This percentage includeds Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map.

The Federal Lands Highway Program in Arizona. Arizona Forest Highway 39, also known as General Hitchcock Highway, consists of 24.6 miles through the Coronado National Forest connectingTucson to Summerhaven.This route traverses the sensitive Sonoran Desert, river banks, and high sub-alpine forest.The highway is traveled by over one million visitors each year, and was designated a National Scenic Byway on April 28, 1995.The original route had narrow, poor highway alignments, and a high accident rate.

In 1988 Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD) began working on a series of seven projects along the General Hitchcock Highway in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and Pima County.The final Forest Highway Program funded segment ($15.0 million) was completed four months ahead of schedule in 2007.The mitigation efforts consisted of careful selection of alignment and design alternatives that minimize new visual impacts, special sculpting of new cut-and-fill slopes, intensive landscaping and revegetation of disturbed areas, and special construction requirements to minimize repercussions on threatened species, including the Mexican spotted owl, desert tortoise, lesser long-nosed bat, and long-tongued bat.The roadway won a prestigious 2005 Arizona Engineering Excellence Grand Award for Context Sensitive Design for minimizing damage to existing terrain. National Park Service (25 units) U.S. Forest Service (6) Bureau of Indian Affairs/Tribal Governments (23) U.S. Fish andWildlife Service (8) * This percentage includes Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map.

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