Peach Springs

 Peach Springs is the Route 66 town that's  home to the Hualapai Nation government. The town is about midway between Kingman and Seligman, Arizona.  It was bypassed by I-40 in 1984.

Diamond Creek Road connects to Route 66 here. It's a 20-mile drive to the Colorado River and lower Grand Canyon from Peach Springs. Some Grand Canyon rafting trips take out at Diamond Creek on the Colorado River. The road descends from an elevation of 4,850 feet in Peach Springs to 1,340 feet at the river.

It's a rough road that goes through a shallow wash at the end of the trip. Tribal permits to drive the road are available at the Hualapai Lodge in Peach Springs. Call 928-769-2227 for information. 

Hualapai River Runners offer a one-day river trip of 55 miles in the western Grand Canyon that includes some whitewater rapids.
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Peach Springs includes a dilapidated stone trading post built in 1928 by Ancel Early Taylor. It's  just west of a convenience store.  ​

 A  gas station and garage that closed in 1999 is on the south side of Route 66. It  was built in 1929 by Oscar Osterman. He sold it to Frank Boyd in 1938, according to Route 66 writer Quinta Scott.

​The National Register of Historic Places in 2023 listed the Osterman Garage as one of the Most Endangered Historic Places.The Hualapais have  renovated the historic filling station with a new roof and a fresh paint job . 

Founded: 1887 (Post Office)
Elevation: 4,797
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Ancel Early Taylor built Peach Springs Trading Post of native stone in 1928 to replace a frame building. Born in 1887, Taylor died in 1987.

Hualapai Nation has restored this 1929 gas station, closed since 1999.

The garage was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.