Utah State Route 7

For the former highway, see Utah State Route 7 (pre-1977).

State Route 7
Southern Parkway
Route information
Defined by Utah Code §72-4-106
Maintained by UDOT
Length: 7.123 mi[2] (11.463 km)
Existed: 2009[1] – present
Major junctions
West end: I-15 near St George
East end: CURRENT: Airport Parkway near St George
FUTURE: SR-9 near Hurricane
Highway system

State highways in Utah
Interstate • US • State (Parks) • Scenic

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State Route 7 (SR-7), also known as Southern Parkway, is a state highway in the extreme southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Utah, currently linking the southern periphery of St George to southeastern St George.[3] The first portion of the freeway opened 7 July 2009, a link between exit 2 at I-15 south of Bloomington (a suburb of St George) to River Road south of St George spanning 4 miles (6.4 km). It is the southern portion of a two-phase beltway around St. George.[4] The second portion was completed in November 2010, extending further east to the new St. George Municipal Airport. The highway is eventually planned to extend 26 miles (41.8 km) northeast—as a four-lane freeway—to Hurricane, although initially there will be some at-grade intersections. These will be converted to interchanges as traffic volumes warrant.[5]

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Route description

State Route 7 starts at its intersection with I-15 in south St. George St. George. From here it travels southeast for about 3 miles (4.8 km) to just north of the Utah-Arizona border, then turning east and paralleling the border. Past interchanges at Astragalus Drive and River Road, the road turns east-northeast and continues for 4 miles (6.4 km) until reaching its temporary terminus at Airport Parkway, the service road for St. George Municipal Airport.[6] Currently, the route travels a total of 7.123 miles (11.463 km).

History

Since the 1977 Utah state route renumbering, no route in Utah had been designated as State Route 7, until 2009 when the Utah state legislature added the Southern Parkway from Pioneer Road to River Road to the state highway system.[1]

Major intersections

The entire route is in St. George, Washington County.

Mile[2] Exit Destinations Notes
0.000   I-15 – Las Vegas, Salt Lake City At-grade intersection
0.444 1 Astragalus Drive  
3.281 3 River Road  
5.951 6 Future Road  
7.123 7 Airport Parkway – St. George Municipal Airport Temporary eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. ^ a b "State Route 7 highway resolutions" (PDF). Utah Department of Transportation. September 2009. http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=200609121733363. Retrieved 1 May 2011. 
  2. ^ a b "State Route 7 Highway reference". Utah Department of Transportation. 2010-11-17. http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=8490714423917635. Retrieved 2011-11-16. 
  3. ^ "UDOT to Open First Segment of State’s Newest Highway". Utah Department of Transportation. http://udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:0:::1:T,V:1,42299. Retrieved 2009-07-07. 
  4. ^ "Public Works Capital projects". City of St. George, department of public works. http://www.sgcity.org/publicworks/sgprojects.php. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 
  5. ^ "Traffic and transportation information exchange - Southern Parkway". City of St George. http://www.sgcity.org/traffic/project.php?id=15. Retrieved 2009-01-17. 
  6. ^ "Southern Parkway Project map". http://enet.sgcity.org/departments/publicworks/capitalprojects/upload/s_p_all.jpg. Retrieved 2010-01-03. 

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