Utah State Route 157 (SR-157) is a
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 ...
in
Carbon County 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 just over , it connects
Helper and
Spring Glen with
Kenilworth
Kenilworth ( ) is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Warwick (district), Warwick District in Warwickshire, England, south-west of Coventry, north of Warwick and north-west of London. It lies on Finham Brook, a ...
to the northeast.
Route description
State Route 157 begins on
US-6
U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system. While it currently runs east-northeast from Bishop, California, to P ...
/
US-191 at the Poplar Street/Hill Street interchange in the city of Helper.
From there the route travels east along Poplar Street before turning south onto South Main Street. The route then continues south along South Main Street (which becomes North Spring Glen Road) toward Spring Glen, parallel to US-6/US-191, before turning east onto Kenilworth Road (initially 4500 North). The route then travels east-northeast along Kenilworth Road about to Kenilworth, turning north onto Main Street for about , which then turns back to the west for the last , ending at Main Street and 1st Avenue.
History
State Route 157 was established in 1933 as connecting what was then SR-8 (now US-6) between Helper and Spring Glen with Kenilworth.
In 1953, the state legislature designated State Route 244 in 1953 as a loop off US-6 (then also US-50) in Helper, running along Poplar Street and Main Street. The west end of SR-157 was later extended north to SR-244 in Helper.
In 2013, SR-244 was removed from the State Highway System, but the section of the former state route along Poplar Street (from US-6/US-191 to South Main Street) was added to SR-157. The result is the current alignment of SR-157 (south from Helper to Kenilworth road, thence northeast to Kenilworth).
The entirety of the former SR-244 designation, which includes the Poplar Street segment of modern SR-157, remains signed as U.S. Route 6 Business.
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