State Route 60 (SR-60) is a 7.496-mile-long (12.064 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Utah, serving local traffic in the Ogden area. It parallels Interstate 84 (I-84) from SR-26 in Riverdale to U.S. Route 89 (US-89) in South Weber, and was part of the first state highway into Weber Canyon.
 State Route 60 | ||||
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 SR-60 highlighted in red | ||||
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| Maintained by UDOT | ||||
| Length | 7.496 mi[1] (12.064 km) | |||
| Existed | 1912 as a state highway; 1935 as SR-60–present | |||
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| West end |  SR-26 in Riverdale | |||
| East end |  US 89 in South Weber | |||
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| Country | United States | |||
| State | Utah | |||
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Route description
editThe entire length of SR-60 is just south of the Weber River and north of the Davis-Weber Canal in the cities of Riverdale and South Weber. The highway begins at SR-26 (Riverdale Road) and heads south under I-84, turning southeast at the SR-168 intersection and slowly climbing towards the end at US-89. Cornia Drive - formerly SR-49A - continues straight at the east terminus, an interchange with US-89 near the mouth of the Weber Canyon. Traffic wanting to continue east through the canyon, leaving the Weber Valley to cross the Wasatch Range, heads north on US-89 to I-84.[2]
History
editThe road from SR-1 (US-91, now SR-26) at Riverdale Junction east into Weber Canyon became a state highway in 1912[3] and part of SR-5 and US-30S in the 1920s.[4][5] It was also along the route of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway from September 1913[6] until April 1915, when the auto trail was moved to the more direct Parley's Canyon.[7] In 1927, the state legislature defined a new route for SR-5 that began farther north on SR-1 in Ogden; the old alignment between SR-1 and the canyon was initially a branch of SR-49 (now US-89),[8] but in 1935 it was split off as State Route 60.[9] At the west end, a short realignment was built with federal aid as a national defense project in the early 1940s to improve access to the Ogden Ordnance Depot. The new road bypassed what is now 1150 West, and continued south from SR-60 to the depot along what is now SR-168.[10] The east end was realigned in about 2000 when US-89 was reconstructed.[11]
State Route 49A was designated in 1953 as an effective eastward continuation of SR-60, running northeast from US-89 (legislatively SR-49) near the east end of SR-60 along what is now Cornia Drive to US-30S at the mouth of Weber Canyon. However, this was soon bypassed when I-80N (now I-84) was built, and it was turned back to local jurisdiction in 1966.[12]
Major intersections
edit| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Weber | Riverdale | 0.000 | 0.000 | SR-26 (Riverdale Road) | Western terminus |
| 0.779 | 1.254 |  SR-168 | |||
| Davis | South Weber | 3.741 | 6.021 | 475 East to Adams Avenue Parkway | |
| 7.496 | 12.064 | US 89 | Eastern terminus; interchange | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
edit- ^ a b Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Reference Information: "SR-60". (84.6 KB), updated 2008-05-01, accessed July 2008
- ^ Google Maps street maps and USGS topographic maps, accessed July 2008 via ACME Mapper
- ^ Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions Archived 2008-09-30 at the Wayback Machine: "Route 60". (1.46 MB), updated November 2007, accessed May 2008
- ^ Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas, 1926
- ^ Bureau of Public Roads & American Association of State Highway Officials (November 11, 1926). United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials (Map). 1:7,000,000. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey. OCLC 32889555. Retrieved November 7, 2013 – via Wikimedia Commons.
- ^ Southern Utonian, The Utah Budget, September 9, 1913, p. 4
- ^ Eastern Utah Advocate, Removed From Lincoln Route, April 16, 1915, p. 1
- ^ Utah State Legislature (1927). "Chapter 21: Designation of State Roads". Session Laws of Utah.
5. From Ogden southeasterly via Mountain Green, Morgan and Henefer to Echo." "49. From Riverdale Junction to mouth of Weber canyon; also from mouth of Weber canyon to North Farmington Junction.
- ^ Utah State Legislature (1935). "Chapter 37: Designation of State Roads". Session Laws of Utah.
Route 60. From Riverdale Junction on route 1 easterly to junction with route 49.
- ^ Proceedings of First Annual Highway Engineering Road School, March 4, 5, and 6, 1940, p. 12: "The Ogden Ordnance Depot will require one substantial access road from its north boundary to a junction with US 91 near Riverdale, 2-3/4 miles."
- ^ Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory database, 2007
- ^ Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions Archived 2008-09-30 at the Wayback Machine: "Route 49"., updated November 2008, accessed January 2020
