Arcosanti is located 2 miles east of Cordes Junction at Highway 69 and Interstate 17.

The 2 mile dirt road welcomes over 50,000 visitors per year. Our goal is to pave the road to invite increasing numbers of visitors and enhance the entrance to Arcosanti.

Paolo Soleri has proposed a project for paving the road that could involve many artists in creating sections of paintings that the cars would actually drive across. The following text is an excerpt from his proposal outlining the basic premise.

Via Deliziosa
Via Deliziosa is the gateway to Arcosanti. The tie is both physical and meta-physical.

Physical Tie
To cover the distance (about 3 km) separating Arcosanti from Cordes Junction- driving, bicycling, walking- while surveying the myth of becoming from the mineral beginning to the mentally-dwelled now will be an extraordinary experience and, potentially, also a powerfully esthetic one.

The project will transform the rough, unpaved road (Via Dolorosa) into an all-weather painting (Via Deliziosa). The cost of the paved road and of the 1km “canvas” will be covered by the commitment to accomplish such a project given its environmental and cultural impact.

Meta-Physical Tie
The journey from mineral to mental is full of grace and fury. A 1km panorama-diorama symbolizing and representing the salient points in the journey is “most appropriate” – from the “mineral gate” to the “mental gate” by way of story telling.

Arcosanti will then have a very telling umbilical cord, a picture-full lasagna connecting it – at both physical and meta-physical levels – with surrounding reality.
--Paolo Soleri

If you are interested in contributing toward the actualization of this project, contact Tomiaki Tamura: ttmr@futureone.com or 928-632-6230. If you would like to make a contribution toward our Pave the Road fund, please contact Mary Hoadley: maryhoadley@arcosanti.org or 928-632-6212.