High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! State Route 96 (SR 96), is an east–west, 17.77-mile (28.60 km) long state highway in central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. It runs from SR 97 south of Bagdad east to Yavapai County Route 15 (CR 15) near Hillside. The road was built in the late 1930s and defined as a state route from Bagdad to Hillside in 1962. The section from Bagdad to SR 97 was removed at the turn of the century.