State Route 37 (SR-37) is a

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in the

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, forming a 270° loop through the western part of the Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area. The route is . When the road was added to the state highway system in 1915 and numbered in 1927, it formed a connection from

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. However, after a series of changes, SR-37 does not enter Ogden and extends further south to

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Route description

SR-37 begins at SR-126 (Main Street) in

, just west of

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, though the nearest access to the Interstate is more than a mile (1.5 km) away. It first heads west on 1800 North, passing through

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and

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before turning north at 5000 West, which becomes 5900 West when it crosses from Davis County into Weber County. Beyond

, SR-37 turns east onto 4000 South, which leads through

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and to the border with

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at SR-108. SR-37 ends there, but the road continues to SR-126 at Ogden-Hinckley Airport, 3.5 miles (5.5 km) north of SR-37's south end.

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and the

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. The area was formerly served by the

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's Hooper Branch from

History

The road from

southwest to

, via 24th Street, Midland Drive, 4000 South, and 5900 West, was added to the state highway system in 1915,

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Highway Resolutions
, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008

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, updated October 2007, accessed May 2008 and assigned the SR-37 designation by the state legislature in 1927. The legislature added a connection from US-91 (now SR-26) at "Dead Man's Curve" in

north along 1900 West, Hinckley Drive, and Pennsylvania Avenue to SR-37 at Hooper Junction in 1923 and numbered it State Route 38 in 1927. The piece of SR-37 east of Hooper Junction, mostly on 24th Street, was transferred to SR-38 in 1931. That same year, State Route 105 was created, initially running from US-91 (now SR-126) in

east to SR-49 (which by the mid-1930s was

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) in South Weber. It was extended west from Sunset to South Hooper in 1933, and in 1941 the original portion east of Sunset, which now lies inside

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, was deleted. SR-37 and SR-105 were connected in 1935 by SR-195, which connected to the former at Hooper, the latter at South Hooper, and continued south and east to SR-108 in

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. A 1945 extension of SR-37 absorbed SR-105 and part of SR-195, creating the present three-quarter loop, though it was about three miles (5 km) longer than the present extent, due to the north end being at Hooper Junction. In 1953, the north–south piece of SR-38 on 1900 West (south of Nye's Corner, the intersection with Hinckley Drive) became an extension of SR-84 (now SR-126). Until 1964, SR-39 left downtown Ogden by heading east on 24th Street, north on Harrison Boulevard (now SR-203), and east on Valley Drive to

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. That year, it was moved to a new connection from 12th Street to the canyon. The portion on 24th Street became an extension of SR-37 to SR-203, which also replaced the easternmost portion of SR-38 between Hooper Junction and Washington Boulevard (US-89/US-91, now solely US-89). This left SR-38 as a short route on Hinckley Drive and Pennsylvania Avenue between SR-84 at Nye's Corner and SR-37 at Hooper Junction. With the construction of

, Pennsylvania Avenue was no longer useful as a state highway, and so it was given to the city of Ogden in 1966. The remainder of SR-38, on Hinckley Drive, became an extension of SR-79. The state legislature truncated SR-37 to its present length in 1969. The portion from Hooper Junction (where I-15 now crossed) to US-89/US-91 in Ogden became a new SR-53, the piece southwest of SR-84 became an extension of SR-108, and the roadways in between and east of US-89/US-91 were removed from the state highway system.

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