Utah State Route 162

State Route 162 marker

State Route 162
Route information
Defined by Utah Code §72-4-122
Maintained by UDOT
Length: 31.852 mi[1] (51.261 km)
Existed: 2004[2] – present
Major junctions
West end: US-191 near Bluff
  SR-262 in Montezuma Creek
East end: SH 41 at Colorado state line
Location
Counties: San Juan
Highway system
← SR-161US-163 →
For the former highways, see Utah State Route 162 (1933-1935) and Utah State Route 162 (1935-1990).

State Route 162 is a state highway located in San Juan County, Utah. It begins at US-191 east of Bluff. It then follows the former alignment of SR-163 to Montezuma Creek. There, it intersects UT-262 at its southern terminus. Afterwards, it follows SR-262's former alignment past Aneth to the Colorado state line. Colorado State Highway 41 takes over in the Centennial State, ending at a junction with US-160 6 miles east of the Four Corners Monument.

Route description

The road begins at U.S. Route 191 in Bluff in a desert area. Paralleling the San Juan River along Mission Road, the road winds eastward along the north border of the Navajo Indian Reservation. Travelling through the city of Montezuma Creek, the road intersects State Route 262. The route then travels through the city of Aneth along the Trail of the Ancients, entering the Navajo Indian Reservation. SH 162 meets its east end at the Colorado state line, where State Highway 41 continues into the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation.[3]

History

The State Road Commission created SR-262 in 1958, running from SR-47 (now US-191) north of Bluff east and south for 20.0 miles (32.2 km) to a point in the Aneth Oil Field about a mile (1.5 km) beyond the bridge over Montezuma Creek, near the curve to the south-southwest. In 1961, the route was extended to just beyond its present end in the settlement of Montezuma Creek, where the road to Aneth (now SR-162) turns east, and in 1965 it was extended further to the Colorado state line, connecting to SH 41 across the border.[4] A road from Montezuma Creek west to US-191 at Bluff was added to the state highway system in 1986 as SR-163.[5] At the time, Utah was considering making the road part of an extension of US-163 into Colorado,[6] but plans fell through, leaving an overlap with US-191 and Route 163 near Bluff that became US-163 to the west and SR-163 to the east. To fix this issue, SR-163 was renumbered SR-162 in 2004, and the part of SR-262 east of Montezuma Creek also became SR-162.[4]

Major intersections

The entire route is in San Juan County.

LocationmikmDestinationsNotes
 0.0000.000 US-191Western terminus
Montezuma Creek14.54323.405 SR-262
 31.85251.261 SH 41Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. ↑ "Route 162" (PDF). Highway Reference. Utah Department of Transportation. May 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-08. External link in |work= (help)
  2. ↑ "State Route 162 highway resolutions" (PDF). Utah Department of Transportation. November 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Microsoft; Nokia (2010-06-18). "SH 262" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  4. 1 2 Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: Route 262 PDF (2.26 MB), updated December 2007, accessed May 2008
  5. ↑ Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: Route 163 PDF (14.8 MB), updated November 2007, accessed May 2008
  6. ↑ Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: Route 666 PDF (6.00 MB), updated December 2007, accessed May 2008, pp. 23-24
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