State Route 16 (SR-16) is a state highway in northeastern
Utah
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, running for in
Rich County from the
Wyoming
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state line near
Woodruff to
Sage Creek Junction. It serves as part of a road from
Evanston, Wyoming to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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.
Route description
SR-16 begins at the Wyoming state line south of Woodruff, as an extension of
WYO 89, and heads northwest to Woodruff, where it turns north through the town center.
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SR-16 then continues north to Randolph, running through the town center. North of Randolph, it runs generally north-northeast to end at an intersection with SR-30 at Sage Creek Junction.
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History
A 1921 law added the portion of the road from Evanston, Wyoming to Montpelier, Idaho
Montpelier is a city in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,597 at the 2010 census, down from 2,785 in 2000. The city is the largest community in the Bear Lake Valley, a farming region north of Bear Lake in southeaster ...
in Utah to the state highway system, as well as the branch towards Kemmerer, Wyoming
Kemmerer is the largest city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. Its population was 2,656 at the 2010 census.
History
Explorer John C. Frémont discovered coal in the area during his second expedition in 1843. The ...
. The State Road Commission assigned the State Route 3 designation to the highway that decade,Rand McNally
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1926 and in 1927 the legislature officially adopted the number for the main route and the spur. The spur was split off as SR-51 in 1931, but the remainder stayed as SR-3 until 1962, when it was renumbered SR-16. 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).[ , updated September 2007, accessed May 2008]
Major intersections
References
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