Arizona State Route 65

State Route 87
Route information
Maintained by ADOT, City of Chandler, City of Mesa
Length:	272.66 mi (438.80 km)
Existed:	1927 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I-10 near Picacho
	Loop 202 in Chandler US 60 in Mesa Loop 202 in Mesa SR 260 from Payson to near Strawberry I-40 / US 180 in Winslow
North end:	SR 264 near Second Mesa
Highway system
Arizona Highways Interstate U.S. State Unconstructed Former ← SR 86 SR 88 → ← SR 64 US 66 →

State Route 87 (SR 87) is a north–south road that travels from I-10 near Picacho northward to SR 264 near Second Mesa.

The road that becomes SR 87 begins at Second Mesa. It becomes a state route when it crosses the reservation boundary line and it ends at Interstate 10 exit 211, just south of Eloy in the unincorporated town of Picacho.

SR 87 is known as the Beeline Highway from Payson through Fountain Hills to McDowell Road, just north of Mesa. This portion of SR 87 is entirely a four-lane highway. There is a stretch of road where the highway splits, taking different canyons through the Mazatzal Mountains south of Payson, near the junction with SR 188. The old alignment is currently the southbound lanes, while a new alignment was built for the northbound lanes. There is a stretch where the roads cross-over each other because of the difference in elevations of the two canyons.

Once it gets to Mesa, SR 87 is known as Country Club Drive, a major-arterial street, six lanes wide in most sections. It then enters Chandler where it becomes Arizona Avenue. The Mesa and Chandler sections of SR 87 are discontinuous, with most of these sections between McKellips Road in Mesa and Cloud Road in Chandler being owned and maintained by their respective cities. South of the junction with SR 587, SR 87 proceeds southeasterly as a two-lane rural road through the Gila River Indian Community until it reaches Coolidge.

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