High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! State Route 97(SR 97) is a 10.91-mile (17.56 km) long state highway in the U.S. state of Arizona. It runs from U.S. Route 93 (US 93) northwest of Congress northeast to SR 96 southeast of Bagdad. The road was built by the late 1930s and improved during the late 1940s. Established as a state route in 1962, SR 97 was paved in the early 1970s.