Utah State Route 30

Infobox road
state=UT
type=SR
route=30
alternate_name=Bear Lake Scenic Byway
Valley View Highway
section=108
maint=

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length_mi=135.620
length_round=3
length_ref=cite web
url=http://www.dot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=7043101423294856
title=Route Description 0030P
accessdate=2008-02-21
publisher=Utah Department of Transportation]
length_notes=convert|223|mi|km|0 with implied connectionscite web
url=http://members.aol.com/utahhwys/021-040.htm
title=Utah Highways Routes 21-40
author=Dan Stober
accessdate=2008-01-10]
established=1966
direction_a=West
terminus_a=jct|state=NV|NV|233 near Montello, NV
junction=jct|state=UT|I|84 near Snowville
jct|state=UT|I|15 near Tremonton
jct|state=UT|US|89|US|91 in Logan
jct|state=UT|US|89 in Garden City
direction_b=East
terminus_b=jct|state=WY|WY|89 near Bear Lake
previous_type=SR
previous_route=29
next_type=SR
next_route=31

State Route 30 (SR-30) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah. It is the only highway signed as a Utah state route (with the beehive shaped route marker) to traverse the entire width the state. Legislatively the highway exists as 3 separate segments. The three sections are easily connectable via Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 89. With these implied connections, highway is drivable as a continuous route from Nevada to Wyoming. The western segment is a historic corridor paralleling both the First Transcontinental Railroad and the California Trail. A portion of the eastern segment has been designated the Bear Lake Scenic byway as part of the Utah Scenic Byways program. [cite web
url=http://www.utah.com/byways/bear_lake.htm
title=Utah Scenic Byways - Bear Lake
accessdate=2008-01-10
publisher=Utah Office of Tourism]

Route description

SR-30 starts at the Nevada state line connecting with SR 233 and loosely follows the original route of the First Transcontinental Railroad and the California Trail around the north shore of the Great Salt Lake. The only towns along this section are Rosette and Park Valley. The highway connects with I-84 near Snowville. I-84 and I-15 connect the western segment with the central segment.

The central section begins near Tremonton just north of the separation of I-84 from I-15. It travels due east through a gap in the Wellsville Mountains created by the Bear River. The highway crests a hill and has a view of Cache Valley which gives the highway its nickname, the "Valley View Highway". The central section joins US-89 in downtown Logan. US-89 connects the central segment with the eastern segment.

The eastern section branches of from US-89 at Garden City and follows the south shore of Bear Lake to Laketown. The highway then cuts across to the Wyoming state line where it continues as WYO 89.

History

The western portion follows the general corridor used by the California Trail, as well as the First Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869. This portion of the railroad was bypassed with the construction of the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake. Later the road would be part of the Midland Trail, and it was added to the state highway system in 1912. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Y6AAAAAAMAAJ Second Biennial Report of the State Road Commission to the Governor of Utah for the Year 1911 and 1912] , p. 162: note precincts such as Park Valley and Lucin] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=SZUAAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Third Biennial Report of the State Road Commission] , 1915, p. 65: "In May, 1912, a road to pass west from Snowville through Park Valley, Rosette and Lucin to the Utah-Nevada line was designated as a State Road. At the following session of the State Legislature, an appropriation of $15000 was made to help in the construction of this road. This appropriation was part of the "Midland Trail" building fund, the Midland Trail being a proposed highway entering the State through Grand County on the east, thence through Emery, Carbon, Utah, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and thence west through Box Elder County around the north end of Great Salt Lake."] Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/download.php/tid=1348/StateRouteHistory.pdf State Route History] , accessed July 2007] The entire roadway from Nevada via Snowville to Tremonton remained a state highway through 1925, [cite UTSR law|year=1925|quote=(j) From Tremonton in a westerly direction via Blue Springs, Snowville, Curlew, Pilot Spring and Lucin to the Utah-Nevada State line.] but in 1927 the portion west of Curlew Junction was dropped, with the remainder serving as part of SR-42, which continued northwest to Idaho, [cite UTSR law|year=1927|quote=42. From Tremonton northwesterly via Snowville to the Utah-Idaho State line near Strevell, Idaho.] and had been designated as U.S. Route 30S in 1926.Bureau of Public Roads, , was restored in 1931 as State Route 70. [cite UTSR law|year=1931|quote=(70) From a point between Snowville and Strevell, thence southwesterly along a route to be determined by the Utah State road commission to the Utah-Nevada State line.]

The central portion, between Tremonton and Logan, was added to the state highway system in 1931 as SR-102 (Tremonton to Deweyville) and SR-69 (Deweyville to Logan). [cite UTSR law|year=1931|quote=(69) From Brigham City northerly via Honeyville, Deweyville, Collinston, Beaver Dam Summit, and easterly to Logan." "(102) From Deweyville westerly to Tremonton.] From 1938 until the mid-1950s, the SR-69 portion was marked as US-89, which, instead of overlapping US-91, followed the longer all-weather route from Brigham City into the Cache Valley.Soda Springs Sun, Road Routing Of U.S. 89 Settled, December 15, 1938] [Rand McNally [http://www.geocities.com/rvdroz/us53nw.jpgAuto Road Atlas] , 1953] Utah State Road Commission (Rand McNally), Utah Official Highway Map, 1956] Various cutoffs were formed at the west end: State Route 154 came first in 1933, connecting SR-41 (now SR-82) in Garland with SR-69 near Collinston via Garland Road. [cite UTSR law|year=1933|chapter=30|quote=(154) From Garland northeasterly to Collinston.] State Route 85 was built in 1940 as a federal aid project, connecting SR-41 (now SR-13) in Riverside with SR-154, and numbered by the legislature in 1945, [cite UTSR law|year=1945|quote=Route 85. From Riverside on route 41 east to route 154.] only to be given back to the county in 1953.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=200609181110421 Route 85] |2=3.24 MB, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008] The roadway from Riverside east to SR-154 was brought back into the state highway system in 1962 as part of SR-84, which was to end at a junciton with the proposed I-15 between Riverside and Collinston. When SR-154 was deleted in 1969, the SR-84 designation was extended east to Collinston, replacing part of that route.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=200609181109591 Route 84] |2=6.85 MB, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008] By 1982, proposed I-15 had been moved west to its current alignment north of Tremonton, and a new State Route 129 was created to connect it with Riverside. For continuity, SR-13 (which had replaced SR-84 in 1977) was cut back to Riverside, with the Riverside-Collinston portion also becoming SR-129.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=200609181326461 Route 129] |2=2.19 MB, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008] SR-42 east of Snowville had become SR-3 in 1962, as the state route number for planned I-80N, but in 1969 the piece east of Bothwell Junction became part of a western extension of SR-102.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=200609181312111 Route 102] |2=3.32 MB, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008]

The portion east of Garden City was added to the state highway system in 1910 (Garden City to Sage Creek Junction) and 1915 (Sage Creek Junction to Wyoming).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=200609121731523 Route 3] |2=10.5 MB, updated September 2007, accessed May 2008] 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=200609140953081 Route 51] |2=3.72 MB, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008] The former became part of SR-3 in the 1920s,Rand McNally [http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/NorthernRockies/Utah/ Auto Road Atlas] , 1926] and in 1927 the legislature added the latter as a branch of that route, [cite UTSR law|year=1927|quote=3. From the Utah-Idaho line near Fish Haven, Idaho, thence southerly along the west shore of Bear Lake through Garden City and Laketown, to Sage Creek Junction, Randolph and Woodruff to the Utah-Wyoming State line at a point about ten (10) miles in a southeasterly direction from Woodruff; also from Sage Creek Junction easterly to the Wyoming State line.] only to split it off as State Route 51 in 1931. [cite UTSR law|year=1931|quote=(51) From Sage Creek junction on route 3 easterly to the Utah-Wyoming State line.] SR-3 was renumbered to SR-16 in 1962, since the SR-3 designation was needed for I-80N.

In 1966, the counties in northern Utah requested that the State Road Commission designate a single route number to run east-west across that part of the state. Since Nevada's portion or the highway, connecting to US 40 at Oasis, was numbered SR 30 (changed to SR 233 in the late 1970s), Utah selected that number, and requested that Wyoming similarly redesignate their Highway 89, which connected to US 30N (now US 30) at Sage. (Wyoming never did so.) The former SR-30 in Sanpete County was renumbered SR-117. However, unlike other renumberings, the commission did not request that the legislature change the legal descriptions; instead, since such a change "would involve a tremendous number of changes in our present record keeping system", the old numbers were kept and marked on small rectangular signs below the SR-30 shields. SR-30 was marked along the following routes: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=200609131100101 Route 30] |2=5.31 MB, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008]
*SR-70, Nevada to Curlew Junction
*SR-42, Curlew Junction to Snowville (marked as US-30S until 1970)
*SR-3, Snowville to Bothwell Junction (marked as I-80N)
*SR-102, Bothwell Junction to Deweyville
*SR-69, Deweyville to Logan
*SR-85 in Logan (marked as US-89 and US-91)
*SR-13, Logan to Garden City (marked as US-89)
*SR-16, Garden City to Sage Creek Junction
*SR-51, Sage Creek Junction to Wyoming

In the 1977 renumbering, the legislative designation was changed to SR-30, except on the portions that were signed as U.S. or Interstate Highways (hence the gaps at I-84 and US-89). No signage changes were required except for the removal of the rectangular signs below the SR-30 shields. In 1989, the commission resolved that, once I-15 was completed north of Tremonton, SR-30 would be rerouted to replace SR-129, with SR-102 and SR-69 (since renumbered SR-38) being extended back to Deweyville and Collinston.

Major intersections

References

External links

* [http://members.aol.com/utahhwys/021-040.htm#rte030 Utah Highways by Dan Stober]