State Route 235 (SR-235), also known as Washington Boulevard, is a
state highway
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in the U.S. state of
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
. Spanning , it serves as a north/south
minor arterial road
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below freeways/motorways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector roa ...
through
Weber County, connecting
US-89 in
Ogden to
SR-134 in
North Ogden.
Route description
State Route 235 begins at the intersection of Washington Boulevard (
US-89) and 2nd Street in
Ogden. At this point, US-89 turns from its north-south routing along Washington Boulevard to the northwest along Harrisville Road while Washington continues north and becomes SR-235.
Shortly after this transition, the route passes a
one-way pair
A one-way pair, one-way couple, or couplet refers to that portion of a bi-directional traffic facilitysuch as a road, bus, streetcar, or light rail linewhere its opposing flows exist as two independent and roughly parallel facilities.
Descriptio ...
on the east (
SR-286) servicing the
Ogden–Weber Technical College
Ogden–Weber Technical College (also referred to as OTECH, Ogden-Weber Tech or OWTC) is a public technical college in Ogden, Utah. It is one of the largest of the eight technical colleges within the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE). The c ...
. The route continues north, exiting Ogden and entering the city of
North Ogden passing a number of shopping centers and suburban neighborhoods. At 2550 North, the route passes the former westbound routing of SR-235 before ending shortly after at 2600 North (
SR-134).
History
Washington Boulevard from
Ogden through
North Ogden was originally designated as part of
SR-1 in 1910.
This route originally continued north along Washington Boulevard before turning northwest through
Pleasant View along what is now Pleasant View Drive, meeting with
SR-204 near the Utah Hot Springs at the
Weber County-
Box Elder County
Box Elder County is a county at the northwestern corner of Utah, United States. As of 2018, the estimated population is 54,950. Its county seat and largest city is Brigham City. The county was named for the box elder trees that abound in the co ...
border.
This route became
US-91 and
US-30S in 1926, and the
US-89 designation was added in the late 1930s. In 1945, Route 1 (as well as the US route designations) were realigned to follow the diagonal stretch of SR-204 along what is now
US-89, truncating SR-204 in the process,
and at the same time, SR-235 was created along the former routing of SR-1 through Pleasant View.
In 1969, at the same time as a
mass-deletion of minor highways, State Route 235's northwestern stretch along Pleasant View Drive was removed from the highway system, and the route was realigned so that it now turned west in North Ogden, very near its current northern terminus.
This new routing took it west along 2550 North for until ending at US-89. Eight years later,
SR-134 was created, coming from the west along 2700 North, under
Interstate 15
Interstate 15 (I-15) is a major Interstate Highway System, Interstate Highway in the western United States, running through Southern California and the Intermountain West. I-15 begins near the Mexico–United States border, Mexican border i ...
and ending at US-89 just north of SR-235, creating two
3-way junction
A three-way junction (or three-way intersection) is a type of road intersection with three arms. A Y junction (or Y intersection) generally has three arms of equal size coming at an acute or obtuse angle to each other; while a T junction (or T i ...
s separated by .
As a result, travellers in this area wanting to access Interstate 15 or points west would need to travel along SR-235, turn onto US-89 for a short distance, then continue west along SR-134.
A new, wider
two-lane road
A single carriageway (British English) or Undivided highway (American English) is a road with one, two or more lanes arranged within a one carriageway with no central reservation to separate opposing flows of traffic. A single-track road has a s ...
that extended SR-134 to the east to Washington Boulevard was built in 2004.
This new road paralleled SR-235, and since there was no operational need to maintain two parallel roadways,
UDOT
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is an agency of the state government of Utah, United States; it is usually referred to by its initials UDOT (pronounced "you-dot"). UDOT is charged with maintaining the more than of roadway that co ...
transferred the east-west stretch of SR-235 back to local jurisdiction, and extended SR-235 north along Washington Boulevard from 2550 North to 2700 North to meet with the new eastern terminus of SR-134.
Major intersections
References
External links
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Ogden, Utah
Streets in Utah