State Highway 318 (SH 318) is a

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. SH 318's western terminus is at Brown's Park Road at the

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state line, and the eastern terminus is at

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(US 40) in Maybell.

Route description

SH 318 runs , starting north of the Green River in an isolated area known as

Browns Park Brown's Park or Browns Park, originally called Brown's Hole, is an isolated mountain valley along the Green River in Moffat County, Colorado and Daggett County, Utah in the United States. The valley begins in far eastern Utah, approximately do ...

. It connects at the

state line with gravel surfaced Brown's Park Road. The highway runs southeast, passing

Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge is a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge located in northwestern Colorado. It is located in Moffat County in the extreme northwestern corner of the state, in an isolated mountain valley of Browns Park on both sides ...

and continuing southeast when the Green River turns south into

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. The highway crosses

Vermillion Creek Vermillion Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 18, 2011 tributary of the Green River. It flows south from Sweetwater County, Wyoming to a confluence with th ...

, the

Little Snake River The Little Snake River is a tributary of the Yampa River, approximately long, in southwestern Wyoming and northwestern Colorado in the United States. It rises near the continental divide, in Routt National Forest in northern Routt County, C ...

and the

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