State Route 60 (SR-60) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah, serving local traffic in the Ogden area. It parallels Interstate 84 (I-84) from SR-26 in Riverdale to U.S. Route 89 (US-89) in South Weber, and was part of the first state highway into Weber Canyon.
Route description The entire length of SR-60 is just south of the Weber River and north of the Davis-Weber Canal in the cities of Riverdale and South Weber. The highway begins at SR-26 (Riverdale Road) and heads south under I-84, turning southeast at the SR-168 intersection and slowly climbing towards the end at US-89. Cornia Drive - formerly SR-49A - continues straight at the east terminus, an interchange with US-89 near the mouth of the Weber Canyon. Traffic wanting to continue east through the canyon, leaving the Weber Valley to cross the Wasatch Range, heads north on US-89 to I-84.Google Maps street maps and USGS topographic maps, accessed July 2008 via ACME Mapper
History The road from SR-1 (US-91, now SR-26) at Riverdale Junction east into Weber Canyon became a state highway in 1912Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions : , updated November 2007, accessed May 2008 and part of SR-5 and US-30S in the 1920s.Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas , 1926 It was also along the route of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway from September 1913Southern Utonian, The Utah Budget, September 9, 1913, p. 4 until April 1915, when the auto trail was moved to the more direct Parley's Canyon.Eastern Utah Advocate, Removed From Lincoln Route, April 16, 1915, p. 1 In 1927, the state legislature defined a new route for SR-5 that began farther north on SR-1 in Ogden; the old alignment between SR-1 and the canyon was initially a branch of SR-49 (now US-89), but in 1935 it was split off as State Route 60. At the west end, a short realignment was built with federal aid as a national defense project in the early 1940s to improve access to the Ogden Ordnance Depot. The new road bypassed what is now 1150 West, and continued south from SR-60 to the depot along what is now SR-168.Proceedings of First Annual Highway Engineering Road School, March 4, 5, and 6, 1940, p. 12: "The Ogden Ordnance Depot will require one substantial access road from its north boundary to a junction with US 91 near Riverdale, 2-3/4 miles." The east end was realigned in about 2000 when US-89 was reconstructed.Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory database, 2007
State Route 49A was designated in 1953 as an effective eastward continuation of SR-60, running northeast from US-89 (legislatively SR-49) near the east end of SR-60 along what is now Cornia Drive to US-30S at the mouth of Weber Canyon. However, this was soon bypassed when I-80N (now I-84) was built, and it was turned back to local jurisdiction in 1966.Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions : , updated November 2008, accessed January 2020
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