Arizona State Route 202 Totally Explained

Everything about Arizona State Route 202 totally explained

State Route 202, or Loop 202, is the partially constructed beltway encompassing the eastern Phoenix, Arizona, United States Metropolitan area. It navigates and surrounds the cities of Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, and Gilbert, making it very vital to the area freeway system. It currently begins at the Mini Stack interchange with Interstate 10 and SR 51, and has only one incomplete segment until its end at Interstate 10 near Ahwatukee.
When fully complete, plans call for Loop 202 to consist of three sections:

Route description

Red Mountain Freeway

The first section of Loop 202 to open was the Red Mountain Freeway. It runs from the Interstate 10/SR 51 Mini Stack interchange to US 60, and passes over the Salt River and through Tempe and Mesa en route, with an interchange with Loop 101 in Tempe. All traffic must exit at Power Road in Mesa as of 2007, with the final segment of the freeway from Power Road to University Drive scheduled to open in summer of 2008. This opening will mark the completion of the original Regional Freeway System as approved by Maricopa County voters in 1985 by Proposition 300.

Santan Freeway

Completed in 2006, the Santan Freeway serves the southeast valley cities of Chandler, Gilbert, and Mesa and provides access to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Beginning at the SuperRedTan interchange with US 60 in Mesa, the freeway runs south and turns westward in Gilbert near the airport. A few miles later the Santan is running in Chandler, where it has a junction with Loop 101 in the vicinity of the Chandler Fashion Center. Following this interchange, the Santan Freeway section of Loop 202 encounters its terminus at a stack interchange with Interstate 10 near Ahwatukee.

South Mountain Freeway

The third, unbuilt segment of the Loop 202 partial beltway is the South Mountain Freeway. This proposed segment will run from the already complete Interstate 10 and Santan Freeway four-level symmetrical stack interchange westward through Ahwatukee on the current Pecos Road alignment, straddling the border with the Gila River Indian Reservation. The proposed freeway will then proceed to turn northwesterly and cut directly through South Mountain Park; before eventually turning completely northward along the 55th Avenue alignment all the way until its terminus at Interstate 10 in Phoenix, west of downtown.
This route would provide a much-needed southerly bypass of the often-congested stretch of I-10 through Downtown Phoenix. As of February 2008, the proposed freeway is currently in the Environmental impact assessment process. At the conclusion of this process, a report will be released by ADOT and the public will have a chance to comment. After these final steps, the fate of the South Mountain Freeway will be revealed by ADOT.

Use as a movie location

In 2006, the Red Mountain Freeway portion of the Loop 202 was used to portray a Saudi Arabian superhighway in the 2007 film, The Kingdom. Filming also took place at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus. The city of Mesa received $40,000 for the usage of the freeway from NBC Universal.

Exit list

The entire route is in Maricopa County.

Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
Phoenix	0.00		, Los Angeles	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	0.00	1A		Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	0.94	1B	24th Street
	1.98	1C	32nd Street
	2.72	2	40th Street, 44th Street
	3.52	3		Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	4.11	4	52nd Street, Van Buren Street
Tempe	5.37	5		Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	6.41	6	Priest Drive, Center Parkway
	7.77	7	Scottsdale Road, Rural Road – Arizona State University
	8.70	8	McClintock Drive	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Mesa	9.62	9
	10.96	10	Dobson Road
	11.85	11	Alma School Road
	12.69	12	McKellips Road	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	13.32	13
	16.30	16	Gilbert Road	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	17.26	17	McDowell Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	19.12	19	Val Vista Drive
	20.11	20	Greenfield Road
	21.32	21	Higley Road
	22.56	22	Recker Road
	23.18	23	Power Road	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			McDowell Road to Power Road	Under construction
			McKellips Road	Under construction
			Brown Road	Under construction
		27	University Drive	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		28	Broadway Road
	30.14	30		Signed as exits 30A (east) and 30B (west); SuperRedTan Interchange
	31.17	31	Baseline Road	Northbound exit only
	32.29	32	Guadalupe Road
	33.88	33	Elliot Road
	34.65	34	Hawes Road
Gilbert	36.66	36	Power Road
	38.85	38	Higley Road
	40.67	40	Williams Field Road
	41.23	41	Santan Village Parkway	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	42.84	42	Val Vista Drive
	44.01	44	Gilbert Road
Chandler	45.47	45	Cooper Road
	46.10	46	McQueen Road
	47.92	47
	48.74	48	Alma School Road
	49.90	49	Dobson Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	50.72	50A
	50.98	50B	Price Road
	51.75	51	McClintock Drive, Chandler Village Drive	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	52.18	52	Kyrene Road
	54.10	53
Phoenix			Pecos Road	Continuation beyond I-10

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