 State Route 162 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byUDOT | ||||
| Length | 31.852 mi[1] (51.261 km) | |||
| Existed | 2004[2]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  US 191 nearBluff | |||
| Major intersections |  SR-262 inMontezuma Creek | |||
| East end |  SH 41 atColorado state line | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Utah | |||
| Counties | San Juan | |||
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State Route 162 (SR-162) is astate highway located inSan Juan County,Utah, United States. It begins atUS-191 east of Bluff. It then follows the former alignment of SR-163 toMontezuma Creek. There, it intersectsUT-262 at its southern terminus. Afterwards, it follows SR-262's former alignment pastAneth to theColorado state line. Colorado State Highway 41 takes over in the Centennial State, ending at a junction withUS-160 6 miles east of theFour Corners Monument.
The road begins atU.S. Route 191 inBluff in a desert area. Paralleling theSan Juan River along Mission Road, the road winds eastward along the north border of theNavajo Nation. Travelling through the city ofMontezuma Creek, the road intersectsState Route 262. The route then travels through the city ofAneth along the Trail of the Ancients, entering theNavajo Nation. SH 162 meets its east end at theColorado state line, whereState Highway 41 continues into theUte Mountain Indian Reservation.[3]
TheState Road Commission created SR-262 in 1958, running fromSR-47 (nowUS-191) north ofBluff east and south for 20.0 miles (32.2 km) to a point in theAneth Oil Field about a mile (1.5 km) beyond the bridge overMontezuma Creek, near the curve to the south-southwest. In 1961, the route was extended to just beyond its present end in the settlement of Montezuma Creek, where the road toAneth (nowSR-162) turns east, and in 1965 it was extended further to theColorado state line, connecting toSH 41 across the border.[4] A road from Montezuma Creek west to US-191 at Bluff was added to the state highway system in 1986 asSR-163.[5] At the time, Utah was considering making the road part of an extension ofUS-163 into Colorado,[6] but plans fell through, leaving anoverlap with US-191 and Route 163 near Bluff that became US-163 to the west and SR-163 to the east. To fix this issue, SR-163 was renumbered SR-162 in 2004, and the part of SR-262 east of Montezuma Creek also became SR-162.[4]
The entire route is inSan Juan County.
| Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Bluff | 0.000 | 0.000 | US 191 | Western terminus | |
| Montezuma Creek | 14.543 | 23.405 | SR-262 | ||
| | 31.852 | 51.261 | SH 41 | Eastern terminus | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
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