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Winslow is an incorporated city in Navajo County, Arizona, about 57 miles southeast of Flagstaff; its ZIP code is 86047 and its telephone area code is 928.

The community was founded in 1882 as a railroad town and was incorporated in 1900.

Winslow was named for Edward F. Winslow, president of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, which co-owned the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad — though some accounts instead credit a local prospector named Tom Winslow.

Winslow grew as a division point on the Santa Fe Railway; freight trains still pass through on BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon route between Los Angeles and Chicago, and Amtrak's Southwest Chief stops at Winslow station twice daily.

Historic U.S. Route 66 originally ran through downtown Winslow, while Interstate 40 now bypasses the city to the north under a contract awarded at the end of 1977, with the old highway surviving as the I-40 business route.

Winslow is famous for the Eagles' 1972 hit "Take It Easy," whose lyric about "standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" is commemorated at Standin' on the Corner Park at Kinsley Avenue and Second Street, and the city holds an annual Standin' on the Corner Festival in the last week of September.

La Posada, a Fred Harvey railroad hotel designed by Mary Colter, opened in Winslow in 1930; after the Santa Fe Railway abandoned it in 1994 it was bought and restored, and it operates today as the La Posada Hotel.

Winslow's 9-11 Remembrance Gardens display two steel beams recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers in New York.

The 2020 census counted 9,005 residents in 2,890 households in Winslow, down from 9,655 residents in 2010, and 14.3 percent of the city's 3,371 housing units stood vacant, and the city's median age was 34.3 years.

Native American residents made up 33.3 percent of Winslow's population in 2020, and Hispanic or Latino residents made up 32.4 percent.