Utah State Route 16

Infobox road
state=UT
type=SR
route=16
section=107
maint=UDOT
length_mi=29.359
length_round=3
length_ref= [http://www.dot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=15540126555748329 UDOT Highway Reference, SR-16] ]
established=1921 as a state highway; 1920s as SR-3; renumbered 1962
direction_a=South
terminus_a=jct|state=WY|WY|89 near Woodruff
junction=jct|state=UT|SR|39 in Woodruff
direction_b=North
terminus_b=jct|state=UT|SR|30 at Sage Creek Junction
previous_type=I
previous_route=15
next_type=SR
next_route=17

State Route 16 (SR-16) is a state highway in northeastern Utah, running for 29.359 miles in Rich County from the Wyoming state line near Woodruff to Sage Creek Junction. It serves as part of a road from Evanston, Wyoming to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [http://members.aol.com/utahhwys/001-020.htm#rte016 Utah Highways, SR-16] ]

Route description

SR-16 begins at the Wyoming state line south of Woodruff, as an extension of WYO 89, and heads northwest ten miles to Woodruff, where it turns north through the town center.

SR-16 then continues north ten miles to Randolph, running through the town center. North of Randolph, it runs generally north-northeast nine miles to end at an intersection with SR-30 at Sage Creek Junction.

History

A 1921 law added the portion of the road from Evanston, Wyoming to Montpelier, Idaho in Utah to the state highway system, as well as the branch towards Kemmerer, Wyoming. [cite UTSR law|year=1921|quote=(q) From the Utah-Idaho state line near Swan Creek in Rich county following the west shore of Bear Lake by way of Garden City, Laketown, Randolph, Woodruff, to the Utah-Wyoming state line at a point about ten (10) miles in a southeasterly direction from Woodruff. Also from a point approximately nine (9) miles north of Randolph east to the Utah-Wyoming state line.] The State Road Commission assigned the State Route 3 designation to the highway that decade,Rand McNally [http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/NorthernRockies/Utah/ Auto Road Atlas] , 1926] and in 1927 the legislature officially adopted the number for the main route and the spur. [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.] The spur was split off as SR-51 in 1931, [cite UTSR law|year=1931|quote=(51) From Sage Creek junction on route 3 easterly to the Utah-Wyoming State line.] but the remainder stayed as SR-3 until 1962, when it was renumbered SR-16 to allow SR-3 to be used on I-80N. In the 1977 renumbering, only the section south of Sage Creek Junction remained, as the rest became SR-30 (signed since 1966) and US-89 (signed since the 1930s).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=200609121825071 Route 16] |2=2.01 MB, updated September 2007, accessed May 2008]

Major intersections

Jctint
state=UT
county=Rich
cspan=3
location=Woodruff
lspan=2
type=
mile=0.000
road=jct|state=WY|WY|89|I|80|to2=yes|city1=Evanston
notes=Southern terminus
Wyoming state lineJctint
type=
mile=10.505
road=jct|state=UT|SR|39|dir1=west|name1=Center Street|city1=Huntsville|city2=Ogden
notes=Jctint
location=Sage Creek Junction
lspan=1
type=
mile=29.359
road=
notes=Northern terminus

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