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State Route 162 (SR-162) is a
The road begins at
The State Road Commission created SR-262 in 1958, running from SR-47 (now US-191) north of Bluff east and south for to a point in the
Highway Resolutions
, updated December 2007, accessed May 2008 A road from Montezuma Creek west to US-191 at Bluff was added to the state highway system in 1986 as SR-163. Utah Department of Transportation
Highway Resolutions
, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008 At the time, Utah was considering making the road part of an extension of US-163 into Colorado, Utah Department of Transportation
Highway Resolutions
, updated December 2007, accessed May 2008, pp. 23-24 but plans fell through, leaving an overlap with US-191 and Route 163 near Bluff that became US-163 to the west and SR-163 to the east. To fix this issue, SR-163 was renumbered SR-162 in 2004, and the part of SR-262 east of Montezuma Creek also became SR-162.
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
located in San Juan County, Utah, United States. It begins at US-191 east of Bluff. It then follows the former alignment of SR-163 to Montezuma Creek. There, it intersects UT-262 at its southern terminus. Afterwards, it follows SR-262's former alignment past Aneth to the Colorado state line. Colorado State Highway 41 takes over in the Centennial State, ending at a junction with US-160
U.S. Route 160 (US 160) is a 1,465 mile (2,358 km) long east–west United States highway in the Midwestern and Western United States. The western terminus of the route is at US 89 five miles (8 km) west of Tuba City, Arizo ...
6 miles east of the Four Corners Monument
The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to the area being na ...
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Route description
The road begins at U.S. Route 191
U.S. Route 191 (US 191) is a spur of U.S. Route 91 that has two branches. The southern branch runs for from Douglas, Arizona on the Mexican border to the southern part of Yellowstone National Park. The northern branch runs for from the north ...
in Bluff in a desert area. Paralleling the San Juan River along Mission Road, the road winds eastward along the north border of the Navajo Nation. Travelling through the city of Montezuma Creek, the road intersects State Route 262. The route then travels through the city of Aneth along the Trail of the Ancients, entering the Navajo Nation. SH 162 meets its east end at the Colorado state line, where State Highway 41 continues into the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (Ute dialect: Wʉgama Núuchi) is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservati ...
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History
The State Road Commission created SR-262 in 1958, running from SR-47 (now US-191) north of Bluff east and south for to a point in the Aneth Oil Field
Aneth ( nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Juan County, Utah, United States. The population was 598 at the 2000 census. The origin of the name Aneth is obscure.
Geography
Aneth is located at (37.205595, -109.164379).
According t ...
about a mile (1.5 km) beyond the bridge over Montezuma Creek, near the curve to the south-southwest. In 1961, the route was extended to just beyond its present end in the settlement of Montezuma Creek, where the road to Aneth (now SR-162) turns east, and in 1965 it was extended further to the Colorado state line, connecting to SH 41 across the border. Utah Department of TransportationHighway Resolutions
, updated December 2007, accessed May 2008 A road from Montezuma Creek west to US-191 at Bluff was added to the state highway system in 1986 as SR-163. Utah Department of Transportation
Highway Resolutions
, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008 At the time, Utah was considering making the road part of an extension of US-163 into Colorado, Utah Department of Transportation
Highway Resolutions
, updated December 2007, accessed May 2008, pp. 23-24 but plans fell through, leaving an overlap with US-191 and Route 163 near Bluff that became US-163 to the west and SR-163 to the east. To fix this issue, SR-163 was renumbered SR-162 in 2004, and the part of SR-262 east of Montezuma Creek also became SR-162.
Major intersections
See also
*List of state highways in Utah
The U.S. state of Utah, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) operates a system of state routes that serve all portions of the state. In official documents the state of Utah uses the term "state routes" for numbered, state maintained h ...
References
External links
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