Length 173.1 km | ||
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Existed: 1910 as a state highway; 1927 as SR-21 – present West end: SR 487 at the Nevada border toward Ely East end: SR-160 / I-15 Bus. in Beaver | ||
State Route 21 (SR-21) is a state highway in western Utah, running for 107.575 miles (173.125 km) in Millard and Beaver Counties from the Nevada state line near Garrison to Beaver.
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Map of UT-21, Utah, USA
Route description
SR-21 begins at the Nevada state line as a continuation of Nevada State Route 487 and heads southeast through Garrison. It continues southeast past Pruess Lake and continues through Mormon Gap and Halfway Summit. It turns east around Lime Point into Corral Canyon and over Wah Wah Summit. It then heads southeast between Grampian Hill and Squaw Peak into Squaw Gulch, where it turns northeast over Frisco Summit and east through the ghost town of Frisco. It then turns southeast and continues to Milford. SR-21 leaves Milford heading southeast across an agricultural area to Minersville. In Minersville, it turns east past Yellow Mountain, then turns northeast past Minersville Lake State Park. It continues through Adamsville, then turns east around Little Bald Hill through Greenville into Beaver. In Beaver, it crosses I-15 without an interchange, the continues to end at an intersection with Business Loop I-15 (SR-160).
History
The road from SR-1 (by 1926 US-91, now SR-160) in Beaver west to Milford was added to the state highway system in 1910, and it was extended west to Newhouse in 1916. The state legislature assigned the SR-21 designation to the route in 1927, and continued it northwest from Newhouse to the Nevada state line, where it became SR 73 towards Ely. In 1941, SR-21 was extended east from Beaver to US-89 at Junction, but this became SR-153 in 1945.
A loop through Greenville was created as SR-127 in 1931 and renumbered State Route 126 in 1933, following a road from SR-21 south to Greenville and then heading west on that community's Main Street back to SR-21. The east–west portion was removed in 1953, and in 1969 the remainder was removed from the state highway system.
Another loop - State Route 129 - was created in 1933, heading south from SR-21 in Milford along Adams Street (which would normally be Main Street in the local grid) to a point on the Milford Flat, then east on 4500 South back to SR-21. It too ceased to be a state highway in 1969.