State Route 22 (SR-22) is a
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in southern
Utah, running for in
Garfield and
Piute Counties from
Antimony to
Otter Creek Reservoir.
Route description
SR-22 begins in
Antimony as a continuation of John's Valley Road and heads generally north through a canyon to
Otter Creek Reservoir and
Otter Creek State Park
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic, or marine, with diets based on fish and invertebrates. Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family, which also include ...
, where it ends at an intersection with
SR-62.
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History
The road from Widtsoe north to Antimony became a state highway in 1914, and in 1915 it was extended west to SR-11 (by 1926 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 ...
) in Junction. A forest road from Widtsoe south to SR-12 at Tropic Junction was added to the system in 1923,[ Utah Department of Transportation]
Highway Resolutions
, updated September 2007, accessed May 2008 and in 1927 the legislature designated the entire route from Junction to Tropic Junction as SR-22.Antimony Creek
Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb (from la, stibium) and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient t ...
just south of Antimony.[
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Major intersections
References
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