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The Mountain View Corridor is a freeway under construction in northern Utah that will run along the western periphery of Salt Lake County and south into northwest Utah County. Except for the last several miles on its southern end the Mountain View Corridor is numerically designated as State Route 85 (SR-85) [1] in the Utah state highway system.
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is an agency of the state government of Utah, United States; it is usually referred to by its initials UDOT (pronounced "you-dot"). UDOT is responsible for approximately 5,900 miles (9,495 kilometers) of state highways in Utah. [1] UDOT's purview extends to other transportation sectors including:
Out of the 11 states which I-80 passes through, the 197.51-mile-long (317.86 km) segment in Utah is the fourth shortest. As part of the Interstate Highway System, [2] the entire route is listed on the National Highway System, a system of roads that are important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility.
Six former U.S. Highways exist in the state of Utah; of these, five have been replaced by current interstate and U.S. Highways, while the other was replaced by a state route. The most recent change was the redesignation of U.S. Route 666 as U.S. Route 491 in 2003.
The U.S. state of Utah, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) operates a system of state routes that serve all portions of the state. In official documents the state of Utah uses the term "state routes" for numbered, state maintained highways, since the legal definition of a "highway" includes any public road. [1]
The southern (toll) section opened in 2001 at a cost of $8.9 million (equivalent to $15.31 million in 2023) and was created after decades of requests by locals to connect the existing 500 East (Adams Avenue) to I‑84. The toll section allowed commuters to bypass the rest of US‑89 through southern Weber County to I‑84.
A driver in Utah got stuck on a dirt road on a Utah mountain after Google led him there on a “shortcut,” authorities said.
The new section of roadway ran between I-15/US-89 and Redwood Road, and was completed in September 2011. [4] [5] It was the first road segment of the Mountain View Corridor project to be built and was designated as SR-85. [6] Later, the primary north–south segment of the corridor was built in Salt Lake County, initially opening in 2012. [7]