State Route 30 (SR-30) is a

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in the U.S. state of

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. It is the only highway signed as a Utah state route (with the beehive shaped route marker) to traverse the entire width of the state. The legal definition of the highway has 3 separate segments. With implied connections via Interstate 84 and

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, the highway is drivable as a continuous route from

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. The western segment is a historic corridor paralleling the pre-

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routing of the

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. A portion of the eastern segment has been designated the Bear Lake Scenic Byway as part of the

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program. The route was created in 1966 by combining several state highways into a single designation.

Route description

SR-30 starts at the Nevada state line connecting with SR 233 and loosely follows the original route of the

around the north shore of the

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. The only communities along this section are

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and Park Valley. The highway connects with

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near Snowville. I-84 and

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connect the western segment with the central segment. The central section begins near Tremonton just north of the separation of I-84 from I-15. It travels due east through a gap in the

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created by the Bear River. The highway crests a hill and has a view of

Cache Valley Cache Valley ''( Shoshoni: Seuhubeogoi, “Willow Valley”)'' is a valley of northern Utah and southeast Idaho, United States, that includes the Logan metropolitan area. The valley was used by 19th century mountain men and was the site of th ...

which gives the highway its nickname, the ''Valley View Highway''. The central section joins

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in downtown

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. The segment between 3200 West in Cache County and the US-89/US-91 junction in Logan is part of the National Highway System. US-89 connects the central segment with the eastern segment. The eastern section branches off from US-89 at Garden City and follows the south shore of Bear Lake to Laketown. The highway then cuts across to the Wyoming state line where it continues as WYO 89.

History

The western portion follows the general corridor used by the

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, as well as the

, completed in 1869. This portion of the railroad was bypassed with the construction of the

across the

. Later the road would be part of the

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, and it was added to the state highway system in 1912.Second Biennial Report of the State Road Commission to the Governor of Utah for the Year 1911 and 1912
p. 162: note precincts such as Park Valley and Lucin

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State Route History
, accessed July 2007 The entire roadway from

via Snowville to Tremonton remained a state highway through 1925, but in 1927 the portion west of Curlew Junction was dropped, with the remainder serving as part of

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(US-30S), designated in 1926, which continued northwest to

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. The road to the Nevada state line, where it continued as SR 30, was restored in 1931 as State Route 70. The central portion, between Tremonton and

, was added to the state highway system in 1931 as SR-102 (Tremonton to Deweyville) and SR-69 (Deweyville to Logan). From 1938 until the mid-1950s, the SR-69 portion was marked as

, which, instead of

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ping US-91, followed the longer all-weather route from

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into the

. Soda Springs Sun, Road Routing Of U.S. 89 Settled, December 15, 1938

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(

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), Utah Official Highway Map, 1956 Various cutoffs were formed at the west end: State Route 154 came first in 1933, connecting SR-41 (now SR-82) in

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with SR-69 near Collinston via Garland Road. State Route 85 was built in 1940 as a

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project, connecting SR-41 (now SR-13) in Riverside with SR-154, and numbered by the legislature in 1945, only to be given back to the county in 1953. , updated November 2007, accessed May 2008 The roadway from Riverside east to SR-154 was brought back into the state highway system in 1962 as part of SR-84, which was to end at a junction with the proposed

between Riverside and Collinston. When SR-154 was deleted in 1969, the SR-84 designation was extended east to Collinston, replacing part of that route. , updated November 2007, accessed May 2008 By 1982, proposed I-15 had been moved west to its current alignment north of Tremonton, and a new State Route 129 was created to connect it with Riverside. For continuity, SR-13 (which had replaced SR-84 in 1977) was cut back to Riverside, with the Riverside-Collinston portion also becoming SR-129. , updated November 2007, accessed May 2008 In 1969 the piece east of Bothwell Junction became part of a western extension of SR-102. , updated November 2007, accessed May 2008 The portion east of Garden City was added to the state highway system in 1910 (Garden City to Sage Creek Junction) and 1915 (Sage Creek Junction to Wyoming). , updated September 2007, accessed May 2008 , updated October 2007, accessed May 2008 The former became part of SR-3 in the 1920s,

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1926 and in 1927 the legislature added the latter as a branch of that route, only to split it off as State Route 51 in 1931. SR-3 was renumbered to SR-16 in 1962. In 1966, the counties in northern Utah requested that the State Road Commission designate a single route number to run east–west across that part of the state. Since Nevada's portion of the highway, connecting to

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similarly redesignate their

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, which connected to US 30N (now

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. (Wyoming never did so.) The former SR-30 in

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was renumbered SR-117. However, unlike other renumberings, the commission did not request that the legislature change the legal descriptions; instead, since such a change "would involve a tremendous number of changes in our present record keeping system", the old numbers were kept and marked on small rectangular signs below the SR-30 shields. SR-30 was marked along the following routes: , updated October 2007, accessed May 2008 * SR-70, Nevada to Curlew Junction * US-30S, Curlew Junction to Snowville * I-80N, Snowville to Bothwell Junction (now

) * SR-102, Bothwell Junction to Deweyville * SR-69, Deweyville to

/ US-91 in Logan * US-89, Logan to Garden City * SR-16, Garden City to Sage Creek Junction * SR-51, Sage Creek Junction to Wyoming In the 1977 renumbering, the legislative designation was changed to SR-30, except on the portions that were signed as U.S. or Interstate Highways (hence the gaps at I-84 and US-89). No signage changes were required except for the removal of the rectangular signs below the SR-30 shields. In 1989, the commission resolved that, once I-15 was completed north of Tremonton, SR-30 would be rerouted to replace SR-129, with SR-102 and SR-69 (now SR-38) being extended back to Deweyville and Collinston.

Major intersections

References

External links

Utah Highways by Dan Stober
(via

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