Active Arizona

Nov 10, 2026 · Sara Anderson

The First Cycle Arizona 66: 62 Miles, 40 Riders, and a Road Worth Fighting For

Active tourism at the speed of a bicycle

On Saturday, October 17, 40 riders rolled out of Lewis Kingman Park and onto Historic Route 66 for the first Cycle Arizona 66. They came from the Phoenix metro, from Kingman and Mohave County, and from across the state, and they ranged in age from their 20s to their 80s. Twenty volunteers kept them fed, watered and pointed the right way. All of it happened during Route 66’s centennial year, alongside the City of Kingman’s I Heart Route 66 Festival.

This wasn’t a race, and it was never meant to be. Cycle Arizona 66 is a 62-mile supported out-and-back from Kingman to Valentine, built to let people experience the Mother Road the way its earliest travelers did: slowly, up close, and with time to stop and look around.

Continue reading Cycle Arizona 66 Recap

Having green space in urban areas has been shown to improve people’s physical and mental health, improve quality of life, and have a positive economic impact on communities. As your community develops land, you should encourage opportunities to include and expand public green spaces, both big and small. The key is having green spaces that are close to where people live.   Continue reading Urban Green Space Shows Positive Health and Economic Impact

Active Arizona is seeking speakers for the 2027 Active Arizona Transportation Summit. While the date and location have not been finalized, the Summit will be on a Friday in mid-April 2027 and will be held in the greater Phoenix area.

Please submit your proposal to this link by October 31, 2026. Speakers will be selected and notified by January 2027.

For information on past summits please see activeaz.org/summit.

Recently there has been a lot of discussion about selling public land for housing and making public land more available for energy extraction or other mining. People living in Arizona, along with people living throughout the western United States, are more interested in preserving public land than allowing its sale. The interest in preserving public land is consistent across political and demographic boundaries. In addition to the preservation of plants and animals, preserving public land allows for recreational use by people, and that recreational use provides a large economic benefit for the State of Arizona, the American west, and the United States. 

As you communicate with your elected officials and others, please keep this in mind.  Continue reading People in Arizona Want Public Land Preserved  

…updates… draft program available. Registration in now open! visit www.activeaz.org/summit

The Arizona Department of Transportation is continuing to develop guidance documents on ways to improve safety for people who walk and people who bike. The Coalition of Arizona Bicyclists participated in the development and provided input on the 2023 and 2024 plans. It is our goal as Active Arizona, to be involved in the development of the 2026 State Active Transportation Plan.  Continue reading ADOT Continues Work to Develop Documents to Improve Safety for People Walking and People on Bikes

Dec 2, 2025 is Giving Tuesday – Please consider a donation to Active Arizona

Since 2002, CAZBIKE has been the statewide bicycling advocacy organization for Arizona. After a strategic planning process, facilitated by Pinnacle Prevention, CAZBIKE is being rebranded as Active Arizona (ActiveAZ).  Active Arizona represents everyone who chooses active travel and recreation in their daily lives.  Please follow this transformation as we champion active travel for all Arizonans. Continue reading Introducing Active Arizona

When advocating for better active transportation infrastructure, maps can be helpful for both doing research and presenting information. Many government agencies, communities and other organizations have maps available for public use. There are maps showing crash locations, roadway safety projects, traffic volumes, travel times, and more.

In this article, we highlight some of the maps that members of the Coalition of Arizona Bicyclists have found helpful. Examples of the following types of maps are listed below.

• Bicycle Lane Maps
• Community Development Maps
• Crash Location Maps
• Motorized Traffic Volume Maps
• Non-motorized Traffic Volume Maps
• Recreation Map
• Roadway Condition Maps
• Roadway Ownership Maps
• Roadway Safety Project Map
• Suggested Improvements Maps
• Travel Distance Maps
• Vehicle Ownership Map

Continue reading Maps, Maps, and More Maps