State Route 56 (SR-56) is a

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completely within

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in southwestern

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. SR-56 runs from the Utah/

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border to SR-130 in Cedar City.

Route description

Utah State Route 56 Between Modena and Cedar City

From its western terminus on the Nevada border near

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, the route heads northeast until reaching Modena, where it turns southeast. It continues this direction until Newcastle, where it begins heading east and then southeast. After a junction with Pinto Road, it leaves the

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, enters Cedar Valley, then the route heads northeast until entering Cedar City, where it runs east until its eastern terminus. The portion of SR-56 from Iron Springs Road west of Cedar City to the eastern terminus at SR-130 is part of the National Highway System.

History

The road from Beryl Junction west to

became a state highway in 1918, Utah Department of Transportation
Highway Resolutions
, updated September 2007, accessed May 2008 Utah Department of Transportation
State Route History
, accessed July 2007 and in 1927 the legislature extended it west to the

state line (at SR 25) and numbered it as part of SR-18. A connection from SR-18 at Beryl Junction east to SR-1 ( US-91, now SR-130) in Cedar City was added in 1931 as State Route 56, and in 1935 that route absorbed the segment of SR-18 to the state line. SR-56 originally crossed the mountains between Cedar City and Beryl Junction via Desert Mound, following the present Desert Mound Road. Two branches from SR-56 to Iron Mountain were added in 1935: State Route 120 directly south from about the midpoint, and State Route 198 from near the Cedar City end southwest via Iron Mountain to the Dixie National Forest in the direction of

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. Both routes were deleted in 1945, and SR-56 was realigned via Iron Mountain, with the portion of SR-198 east of that settlement becoming part of the new route. A 1953 law restored part of the old alignment to the state highway system as State Route 253, from the junction west of Cedar City to Desert Mound, and also created State Route 254 as a branch to Iron Springs. Both were given back to the county in 1969.

Major intersections

References

External links

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