 State Route 53 | ||||
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| 24th Street | ||||
 SR-53 highlighted in red | ||||
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| Maintained byUDOT | ||||
| Length | 1.949 mi[1] (3.137 km) | |||
| Existed | 1969–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |   I-15 /I-84 inOgden | |||
| East end |  US 89 in Ogden | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Utah | |||
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State Route 53 (SR-53) is a 1.949-mile-long (3.137 km)state highway in theU.S. state ofUtah, connectingInterstate 15 (I-15) andI-84 withU.S. Route 89 (US-89) viaOgden's 24th Street. SR-53 was created in 1969 as a remnant ofSR-37, which was truncated to its current length at that time.
SR-53 begins at exit 342 ofI-15, and heads northeast of Pennsylvania Avenue before curving east into 24th Street. Aviaduct built in about 1970[2] takes the road over theWeber River, theUnion Pacific Railroad'sOgden Yard at the oldUnion Station, andSR-204 (Wall Avenue). Two blocks after SR-53 returns to ground level, it ends atUS-89. The entire route is in theWeber Valley, which locally slopes down towards the Weber River.[3]
24th Street west ofSR-1 (US-91, nowUS-89) was added to the state highway system in 1915,[4] becoming part ofSR-37 in 1927[5] andSR-38 in 1931,[6] only to be given back to SR-37 in 1964 (along with formerSR-39 on 24th Street east of US-89). The state legislature removed parts of SR-37 from the state highway system in 1969, renumbering the portion between I-15 and US-89 as State Route 53.[7]
The entire route is inOgden,Weber County.
| mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.000– 0.095 | 0.000– 0.153 |   I-15 south /I-84 east –Salt Lake  I-15 north /I-84 west –Pocatello (Idaho) | Western terminus; interchange (I-15/I-84 Exit 342); southbound entrance, northbound exit | ||
| 1.625 | 2.615 |  SR-204 (Wall Avenue) | Interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
| 1.949 | 3.137 | US 89 (Washington Boulevard) | Eastern terminus | ||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
37. From Ogden southwesterly to Hooper.
(38) From a point on the Salt Lake-Ogden State road, known as "Death Curve" in Weber county, northerly and easterly via Hooper junction to Ogden.
