Utah State Route 28

Infobox road
state=UT
type=SR
route=28
section=108
maint=UDOT
length_mi=43.612
length_round=3
length_ref= [http://www.dot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=7139805681778612 UDOT Highway Reference, SR-28] ]
established=1925 as a state highway; 1927 as SR-28
direction_a=South
terminus_a=jct|state=UT|US|89 in Gunnison
junction=jct|state=UT|SR|78 in Levan
jct|state=UT|I|15 in Nephi
jct|state=UT|SR|132 in Nephi
direction_b=North
terminus_b=jct|state=UT|I|15 in Nephi
previous_type=SR
previous_route=26
next_type=SR
next_route=29

State Route 28 (SR-28), is a state highway in central Utah running for 43.612 miles in Sanpete and Juab Counties from Gunnison to Nephi. It serves as a connection from the Wasatch Front to the Sevier Valley. [http://members.aol.com/utahhwys/021-040.htm#rte028 Utah Highways Pages, SR-28] ]

Route description

SR-28 begins at an intersection with US-89 in central Gunnison and heads north and northwest to Fayette. It continues northwest past the Sevier Bridge Reservoir and northeast past the Skinner Peaks and Horse Heaven Mountain to Levan.

SR-28 then continues north through Levan to Nephi, where it intersects I-15 at the south end of the town and continues north along the former I-15 Business Loop through Nephi, ending at an intersection with I-15 north of the town.

History

The legislature added the road from SR-11 (US-89) in Gunnison north to SR-1 (US-91, now SR-78) in Levan to the state highway system in 1925 [cite UTSR law|year=1925|quote=(d) ...from Levan southerly via Cedar ridge and Fayette to Gunnison.] and numbered it SR-28 in 1927.cite UTSR law|year=1927|quote=28. From Levan southerly to Gunnison.] In 1968, SR-1 was moved to the proposed route of I-15 between the curve in SR-78 west of Levan and a point north of Nephi near Country Road. The former alignment of SR-1 received several numbers: SR-163 (renumbered SR-78 in the 1977 renumbering) from the split west of Levan east to that town, an extension of SR-28 from Levan to a proposed interchange with I-15 two miles (3.2 km) south of Sheep Lane, and State Route 41 from another interchange one-half mile (0.8 km) south of Sheep Lane through Nephi to the north end of the bypass. The approximately 1.5-mile (2.5 km) piece of old SR-1 between the two interchanges would become a local road.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=200609121739453 Route 28] |2=10.0 MB, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008] The state legislature extended SR-41 north along old SR-1 through Mona in 1969, taking it to a proposed interchange near Rocky Ridge Road, and in 1971 the State Road Commission agreed that, once the bypass of Mona was complete, SR-41 would be truncated back to its 1968 terminus, with a short connection between Mona and I-15 at exit 233 becoming SR-54. The legislature and commission carried out this change in 1975, with SR-41 now running north to a temporary connection with I-15 about one mile (1.5 km) north of Country Road.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=200609121734473 Route 41] |2=10.9 MB, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008] (When I-15 was built, it was truncated slightly to exit 228 near Country Road.) In 1969, SR-28 was extended south to proposed I-70 south of Salina, replacing SR-11 as the unsigned number for US-89 there; a 1970 bypass of Redmond created SR-256 along the former route. This extension received the legislative designation of US-89 in the 1977 renumbering, bringing SR-28 back to its 1968 extent.

When I-15 was eventually built around Levan and Nephi in the 1980s, [Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory database, 2006] it did not follow the originally planned alignment, but was farther west in the Levan area, and crossed old SR-1 between the two communities, bypassing Nephi to the east instead of to the west. Since only one interchange was constructed south of Nephi, all of old SR-1 remained a state highway there, and the north end of SR-28 and south end of SR-41 were in the same place. This was finally changed in 2006, when SR-28 was extended north to absorb all of SR-41.

Major intersections

Jctint
state=UT
county=Sanpete
cspan=1
location=Gunnison
lspan=1
type=
mile=0.000
road=jct|state=UT|US|89|name1=300 North|city1=Salina|city2=Mount Pleasant
notes=Southern terminusJctint
state=UT
county=Juab
cspan=5
location=Levan
lspan=1
mile=29.976
road=jct|state=UT|SR|78|I|15|to2=yes|dir1=south
notes=Jctint
state=UT
location=Nephi
lspan=4
mile=38.708-38.874
road=jct|state=UT|I|15|city1=Fillmore|city2=Provo
notes=Exit 222Jctint
state=UT
mile=40.766
road=jct|state=UT|SR|132|name1=100 North
notes=Jctint
state=UT
mile=43.414-43.558
road=jct|state=UT|I|15|city1=Fillmore|city2=Provo
notes=Exit 228Jctint
state=UT
mile=43.612
road=Frontage Road
notes=Northern terminus

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