State Route 60 | ||||
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Route information | ||||
Defined by Utah Code §72-4-111 | ||||
Maintained by UDOT | ||||
Length: | 7.496 mi[1] (12.064 km) | |||
Existed: | 1912 as a state highway; 1935 as SR-60 – present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end: | SR-26 in Riverdale | |||
East end: | US-89 in South Weber | |||
Highway system | ||||
State highways in Utah
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State Route 60 (SR-60) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah, serving local traffic in the Ogden area. It parallels I-84 from SR-26 in Riverdale to US-89 in South Weber, and was part of the first state highway into Weber Canyon.
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The 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]
The 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]
County | Location | Mile[1] | Destinations | Notes |
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Weber | Riverdale | 0.000 | SR-26 (Riverdale Road) | |
0.779 | SR-168 | |||
Davis | South Weber | 3.741 | 475 East to Adams Avenue Parkway | |
7.496 | US-89 | Interchange |