Utah State Route 124 (SR-124) is a
state highway
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in the
U.S. state
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of
Utah
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. Spanning , it connects the cities of
Sunnyside and
East Carbon in
Carbon County with
Horse Canyon Mine in
Emery County.
Route description
State Route 124 begins near Horse Canyon Mine along the
Book Cliffs
The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah in the Western United States. They are so named because the cliffs of Cretaceous sandstone capping many of the south-facing buttes appear simila ...
in northern Emery County. It starts out traveling west, but soon curves to the north as it crosses the county line into Carbon County. The route continues north along the base of the Book Cliffs, through Columbia Junction just west of Columbia, and finally takes a jog to the west just before ending at its intersection with SR-123 in East Carbon.
History
The road from Sunnyside south to
Columbia (along with the road from Sunnyside west to
Sunnyside Junction
Sunnyside Yard is a large coach yard, a railroad yard for passenger cars in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The yard is owned by Amtrak and is also used by New Jersey Transit. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) completed ...
) was designated as SR-124 in 1931,
and renumbered to
SR-123 in 1933.
In 1935, the portion from Sunnyside to Columbia was split off
and designated as SR-124,
which was extended south to Horse Canyon Mine in 1945.
Since then, only minor legal description changes have occurred such as reversing the described direction from southerly to northerly, and replacing "via Columbia" with "through
Columbia Junction" after the town of Columbia became part of newly incorporated
East Carbon.
Major intersections
References
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