Arizona DOT

Fri September 16, 2016

ADOT Wins Award for 2015 Vermilion Cliffs Mud Clean Up

After a spectacularly strong monsoon dumped 1.5 in. of rain on northern Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs in just 15 minutes, it was no surprise that mud and rocks had covered U.S. 89A. But when Arizona Department of Transportation crews arrived on that day in August 2015, what they saw stopped their bulldozers in their tracks: boulders the size of elephants — 15 ft....

Fri September 16, 2016

ADOT Replants Saguaros on Loop 101

Drivers on the now-wider Loop 101 (Pima Freeway), where new lanes have been added south of Shea Boulevard, may also have noticed construction crews working in recent months to transplant large saguaros, other cactuses and trees that had temporarily been stored in nurseries near the freeway....