Utah State Route 190

Infobox road
state=UT
type=SR
route=190
section=124
alternate_name=Big Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway
maint=UDOT


length_mi=19.934
length_round=3
length_ref=cite web | title=State Route 190 Highway reference | publisher=Utah Department of Transportation | url=http://www.dot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=7224232019937654 ]
established=1987
direction_a=West
terminus_a=jct|state=UT|I|215 in Holladay
junction=jct|state=UT|SR|210 in Cottonwood Heights
direction_b=East
terminus_b= Salt Lake County/Wasatch County line
previous_type=SR
previous_route=186
next_type=US
next_route=191 State Route 190 or the Big Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway is primarily an east and west scenic highway located in Salt Lake County, Utah that begins at I-215 and runs through Big Cottonwood Canyon including the Brighton Loop and ends at the Salt Lake and Wasatch County line.

Route description

From its western terminus in Holladay, SR-190 heads approximately south-east until it intersects with SR-210. The route then turns east and proceeds through Big Cottonwood Canyon to Brighton. The road continues through the "Brighton Loop" and temporarily ends at the end of the loop. The route then resumes traveling eastward to "Guardsman Pass" and ends at the Salt lake and Wasatch County Line.

History

The first piece of present SR-190 was added to the state highway system in 1933 as part of SR-152, which followed Highland Drive, 6200 South, and Big Cottonwood Canyon Road from Salt Lake City to the Wasatch-Cache National Forest boundary in Big Cottonwood Canyon. [cite UTSR law|year=1933|chapter=30|quote=(152) From Twenty-seventh South street southeasterly along Highland Drive to the forest boundary line in Big Cottonwood canyon.] In 1941, SR-152 was extended east in the forest to Brighton, [cite UTSR law|year=1941|chapter=34|quote=Route 152. From Twenty-seventh South Street in Salt Lake City southeasterly via Highland Drive and Big Cottonwood Canyon to Brighton.] and in 1945 the connection from Highland Drive to the canyon was moved south to Fort Union Boulevard. [cite UTSR law|year=1945|quote=Route 152. From Twenty-seventh South Street in Salt Lake City southeasterly via Highland Drive to Seventieth South Street, thence easterly via Big Cottonwood Canyon to Brighton.] In order to provide access to the new Wasatch Mountain State Park, SR-152 was extended east from Brighton in 1963, following an existing county road over Guardsman Pass to end at SR-224. Finally, in 1987, a piece in the middle of SR-152, from I-215 south and east to Wasatch Boulevard (SR-210), was removed from the state highway system. In its place was a proposed limited access road, extending 6200 South past I-215 and along Wasatch Boulevard to Big Cottonwood Canyon Road. To avoid an overlap of SR-152 on I-215, the new roadway became an extension of SR-210, and former SR-152 from Wasatch Boulevard to SR-224 became a new State Route 190.Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:5285268476414239680:::1:T,V:1348, Highway Resolutions] : PDFlink|1= [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=200609190915031 Route 152] |2=4.55 MB, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008] To avoid the necessity of remileposting SR-210, the new connection instead became part of SR-190 in 1988, bringing that route to its maximum extent: I-215 to SR-224. As part of a trade with Wasatch County in which the state took back what is now SR-32, and had been US-189, from US-40 south of the Jordanelle Reservoir to Francis, the east end of SR-190 was cut back to the Salt Lake-Wasatch County line in 1990.Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:5285268476414239680:::1:T,V:1348, Highway Resolutions] : PDFlink|1= [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=200609191036091 Route 190] |2=7.57 MB, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008]

Major intersections

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!Mile!Junction!Notes
-Jctint
state=UT
county=Salt Lake
cspan=3
location=Holladay
lspan=1
type=
mile=0.000
road=jct|state=UT|I|215|to2=yes|
notes=Western terminusJctint
state=UT
location=Cottonwood Heights
lspan=1
mile=1.830
road=jct|state=UT|SR|210|Jctint
state=UT
location=
mile=19.934
road=County line
notes=Eastern terminus

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