Loop 101 South - Pima Freeway

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Southbound Loop 101 a half mile ahead of Exit 38 to Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard.
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Taliesin West, the winter campus of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is to the southeast off Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard arcs southeasterly from Exit 38, roughly parallel to the Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct en route to Shea Boulevard.
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Southbound Loop 101 at Exit 39 to Raintree Drive and Thunderbird Road. Thunderbird Road is discontinuous as it heads west across the valley, with breaks at the Scottsdale Airpark and Phoenix Mountains Preserve.
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Motorists pass under the decorative Sweetwater Avenue multi use crossover ahead of Cactus Road (Exit 40). Many of the bridges and interchanges are decorated with Native American-themed freeway art on newer segments of Loop 101.
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Shea Boulevard in the Phoenix area grid system is equivalent to Peoria Avenue at the west end of the Valley.
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Exit 41 is a single point urban interchange (SPUI).
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Loop 101 (Pima Freeway) enters the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community as a two lane ramp leaves for Pima Road and 90th Street (Exit 42). The Pima Freeway remains within the Tribal lands until the Loop 202 interchange (Exit 51).
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Southbound Loop 101 at Exit 43 to Via de Ventura in Scottsdale. Via de Ventura runs west to Scottsdale Road near Paradise Valley.
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Loop 101 kinks southwest ahead of a diamond interchange (Exit 44) with Talking Stick Way.
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McDonald Drive (Exit 44) ties in with Pima Road in three quarters of a mile.
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Loop 101 passes through the Salt River-Pima Maricopa Indian Community, which results in a wide open feel of the freeway as compared to the east to west section through North Scottsdale.
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Exit 46 to Chaparral Road joins the Pima Freeway (Loop 101) with the Northern Arizona University (NAU) Scottsdale campus.
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Indian School Road connects Loop 101 with Downtown Scottsdale.
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One of the best road scenes in Phoenix may be found by taking McDowell Road west toward Downtown Phoenix. Passing by the twin buttes and Papago Park, the views of Downtown are unparalleled.
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Southbound Loop 101 a quarter mile from Exit 50 to McKellips Road. McKellips Road closely parallels Loop 202 in northern Tempe and Mesa.
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Exit 50 is a symmetrical stack interchange. Similar interchanges in Phoenix are located at Loop 202/I-10, I-17/10 (northwest), Loop 202/U.S. 60 and Loop 202/I-10/SR 51.
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Loop 101 crosses over the Salt River (Rio Salado) between Exits 51 and 50, and the Pima Freeway departs Tempe and enters Scottsdale.
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Lanes depart in unison for Loop 202 (Red Mountain Freeway) to Mesa and Tempe. A portion of the exchange was built over the Salt River.
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Loop 202 west leads to Downtown Phoenix, with a direct connection to Interstate 10 and SR 51. Loop 202 east skirts the northern fringe of Mesa, providing a much-needed alternative to U.S. 60 (Superstition Freeway) through that area.
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Spanning the Salt River at the multilevel interchange, Loop 101 south leaves the tribal lands of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
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Loop 101 continues south onto the Price Freeway as the off-ramp leaves for Rio Salado Parkway. The Price Freeway concludes nine miles ahead at the southern extent of Loop 202 (Santan Freeway) west of Downtown Chandler.
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