Historic Peach Springs Trading Post

Peach Springs is the capital of the Hualapai Nation, the People of the Tall Pines, whose reservation spreads north from here toward the Colorado River and the western Grand Canyon. This trading post, built by Ancel Taylor in 1928, served townspeople and Route 66 travelers alike when the Mother Road was the region's lifeline, and in the 1950s it became one of the tribe's first business ventures. When Interstate 40 bypassed Peach Springs in 1978, the downtown took a hard economic hit. The building, listed on the National Register in 2003, remembers a busier road.

What the plaque says

This property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 2003. The Historic Peach Springs Trading Post, in downtown Peach Springs circa 1932, was an important commercial enterprise for Peach Springs citizens and travelers on Route 66, which was 'the' major transportation corridor for the region at that time. The building, which had an attached garage, was built by Ancel Taylor in 1928. It served as a trading goods store and was one of the Hualapai Tribe's first economic ventures in the 1950's. In 1978, Downtown Peach Springs businesses suffered major economic impacts because of the I-40 Freeway which by-passed the town.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Peach Springs — 0.8 mi
  The capital of the Hualapai Nation — the People of the Tall Pines — on Route 66 at the rim of the Grand Canyon, gateway to Grand Canyon West and the only road to the Colorado's floor.
• Grand Canyon Caverns — 11 mi
  The largest dry cavern in the country, 210 feet under Route 66 — a Cold War fallout shelter, the deepest hotel room in America, and a Hualapai burial place the tourists once mistook for a sideshow.
• Hackberry General Store — 20 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Grand Canyon Caverns — 12 mi