Gas prices near 85254

Locals call this the Magic ZIP, a pocket that carries a Scottsdale mailing address while actually sitting inside Phoenix city limits and feeding into Paradise Valley schools. For drivers that quirk matters less than the road grid: the area runs roughly between Bell Road and Shea Boulevard, bounded by Tatum on the west and Scottsdale Road on the east, with Loop 101 and SR-51 both only a few minutes out.

The cheaper fuel tends to cluster at the busy arterial corners rather than in the gated subdivisions. Stations around Scottsdale Road and Greenway, and near the Tatum and Bell intersections, compete hard for the commuter and shopper traffic, and the grocery-branded pumps with loyalty discounts usually post the area's lowest numbers.

Deeper into the Kierland and Desert Estates streets the stations thin out and price more for convenience than competition. If you are heading toward the 101 anyway, the corners over by Tatum and Bell generally run a few cents under the ones closest to the Kierland shops, so a short detour west can be worth it on a full tank.