Utah State Route 143

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Utah State Route 143 road sign
Basic data
Overall length:  51.21 mi. / 82.40 km
Opening:  1933
Starting point:  I-15 street sign I-15 in Parowan
End point:  Utah SR 89.svg UT 89 in Panguitch
Counties:  Iron County
Garfield County
course
AB-Kreuzung-grün.svg Parowan UT 274Utah SR 274.svg
AB-Kreuzung-grün.svg Cedar Breaks National Monument UT 148Utah SR 148.svg

As State Route 143 or Brian Head-Panguitch Lake Scenic Byway or Utah's Patchwork Parkway refers to a 82.4 km long State Route in the State of Utah . It connects Parowan with Panguitch and provides access to Brian Head , Cedar Breaks National Monument and Panguitch Lake . At its highest point, the road reaches a height of 3,241  m above sea level, making it the second highest paved state route in Utah after the Mirror Lake Highway at 3,265  m .

Route description

Cedar Breaks National Monument from the lookout on State Route 143

The route begins at the Parowan junction of Interstate 15 just west of Parowan in Iron County . First it leads about three kilometers east to the center of Parowan, where it turns onto Main Street and leads two blocks north on it. At this point State Route 143 branches off east on Center Street, while Main Street continues north as Utah State Route 274 . After three more street blocks, the route leaves the city and heads south. It follows Parowan Creek and leads up Parowan Canyon . On the ascent of the canyon southwards, it enters the Dixie National Forest and passes the ski resort Brian Head to lead from the canyon out onto the Markagunt Plateau and through the northeast corner of the Cedar Breaks National Monument . Then the route swings east again at the northern end point of Utah State Route 148 (the Cedar Breaks Scenic Highway ). It reaches its highest point where it leaves Cedar Breaks National Monument and begins the long descent east and north into Garfield County . As the route leaves the Dixie National Forest, it passes Panguitch Lake and continues downhill as Panguitch Lake Road, finally running south as Main Street to Panguitch and at the intersection with US Highway 89 (Center Street) in the city center to end.

history

State Route 143 first entered service in 1933, as the road from Parowan to the boundary of the Dixie National Forests. This route was extended in 1953 so that it led from Utah State Route 1 in Parowan (Main Street) to the northern boundary of the Cedar Breaks National Monument. The total length was around 27 km. In 1963, the state reversed the endpoints of the route to now run north from the northern border of the national monument to Route 1 in Parowan; the route itself remained unchanged.

The Garfield County's Courthouse in Panguitch at the east end of the State Route

When Interstate 15 was built west of Parowan in 1968, the state government decided to relocate State Route 1 to bypass the city with the freeway. It was decided to keep the old route between Interstate 15 in Summit southwest of Parowan to Center Street in Parowan as Utah State Route 38 and to extend State Route 143 through northern Parowan to Interstate 15.

Prior to 1969, Utah State Route 55 ran from Utah State Route 14 to the southern boundary of the Cedar Breaks National Monument, but was repealed in 1969 and that route was designated as part of State Route 143. This is how State Route 143 was torn apart because the section was not designated as a State Route by the National Monument.

In 1975 the construction of the interstate was completed, with a second connection that was not part of the original plans. Because of this, State Route 143 in the city got a new route on the old Route 38 south and then on the 200 South to the new junction of I-15. The rest of Route 38 has been removed from the state's highway directory. The extension of State Route 143 to the north in Parowan established in 1968 became State Route 274.

The southern section of what is now State Route 143 between State Route 14 and the southern boundary of the Cedar Breaks National Monument was re-designated as SR-148 in 1985 and the Panguitch Lake Road from the eastern boundary of the National Monument to US 89 in Panguitch became the state Affiliated to Route 143. The same ruling stipulated that the route within the National Monument would become part of State Routes as soon as federal authorities granted the Utah Department of Transportation the right of way. The text of the law was amended in 1994 to take account of the fact that this transfer has now taken place. Interestingly, State Route 148 still ends at the southern boundary of the National Monument.

The route was declared in 1989 as Brian Head – Panguitch Lake Scenic Byway to a Utah Scenic Byway and 2000 as Utah's Patchwork Parkway to a Forest Service Byway . A classification as All-American Road is being considered.

Web links

Commons : Utah State Route 143  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Route 143 Highway reference ( English ) Utah Department of Transportation . December 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Lynn Arave: Enjoy Utah's scenic heights from your car (English) . In: Deseret News , March 22, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2009. 
  3. ^ A b c State Route 143 Resolutions ( English ) Utah Department of Transportation . November 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  4. ↑ State Route 148 Highway reference ( English ) Utah Department of Transportation . May 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  5. ^ State Route 148 Resolutions ( English ) Utah Department of Transportation . November 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  6. ↑ Utah's Patchwork Parkway (U-143) - Official Designations ( English ) Federal Highway Administration . Retrieved July 15, 2009.
  7. ↑ Scenic Byway 143 ( English ) Iron County . Retrieved July 15, 2009.