State Route 258 is a highway within
Sevier County in central
Utah connecting
Interstate 70 to
SR-118 and serving as the community of
Elsinore's Main Street. It is two miles (3 km) long.
Route description
From its western terminus at a
cattle guard
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just west of the junction with Interstate 70, the highway maintains the same easterly direction through Elsinore. It then veers to the northeast before terminating at SR-118.
History
The state legislature created State Route 258 in 1957, forming a loop east of
SR-11 (
US-89
U.S. Route 89 (US 89) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway with two sections, and one former section. The southern section runs for from Flagstaff, Arizona, to the southern entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The northern section ...
, now
SR-118 and SR-258), along its former alignment through
Central
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
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(between
Elsinore and
Richfield).
When SR-11 was truncated to
SR-4 (future
I-70) at
Sevier Junction in 1969, former SR-258 was removed from the state highway system, but the number was reused in the same area for what was SR-11 until 1969. At the time, its termini were proposed SR-4 in Elsinore and
SR-120 near 600 South in Richfield; the north end was truncated slightly in 1987, when SR-120 was built along 1200 South, and further in 1992, when the majority became an extension of
SR-118. However, none of these changes affected signage, as US-89 remained on the old road through Elsinore and Richfield until 1992, after I-70 was finally completed in the area.
[ Utah Department of Transportation]
Highway Resolutions
, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008
Major intersections
References
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Streets in Utah