Camp Verde’s most iconic and difficult intersection may soon get a makeover.
At a meeting on Jan. 20, the Camp Verde Town Council unanimously voted to approve up to $738,444 of funding from the Northern Arizona Council of Governments’ Transportation Investment Plan for use fixing the intersection of Montezuma Castle Highway and Main St., which currently goes around a lot that had previously featured a Circle K gas station.
The town bought the lot in 2018 with the intention of reconstructing the intersection and turning it into a more conventional T inter- section with a signal.
Every year, the town receives several hundred thousand dollars in funding from NACOG through the Transportation Investment Plan to be used to improve transportation infra- structure. This decision by council would mean spending all of the funding received in the 2025 and 2026 rounds of TIP, which must be specified in advance.
Camp Verde Public Works Director Ron Long anticipates that the total cost of the project will be somewhere between $1.2 and $1.5 million, and expects that more funding for the project will be needed beyond what NACOG gives the town.
“I would hope that the price is a little less than that but that’s what I would say at this time,” Long told the council, though he stressed that no plans have been drawn up and these are just estimates. “This will not cover everything.”
According to Town Manager Russ Martin, the town hopes to begin work on plans soon, in order to begin construction sometime in the next three tofour years. With federal funding often requiring long timelines, the vote on future NACOG funds sets up the town to be able to do so.
