Utah State Route 57

State Route 57
Route information
	Defined by Utah Code §72-4-111
	Maintained by UDOT
Length	10.691 mi[1] (17.205 km)
Existed	1931–present
Major junctions
South end	SR-10 near Castle Dale
	SR-29 in Orangeville
North end	Wilberg Mine near Orangeville
Highway system

State Route 57 (SR-57) is a state highway in Emery County in the U.S. state of Utah. It runs for 10.69 miles (17.20 km) from the junction with SR-10 three miles (5 km) south of Castle Dale to the Wilberg Coal Mine, northwest of Orangeville.

Route description

SR-57 begins at the junction with SR-10 near the Hunter Power Plant, three miles (5 km) southwest of Castle Dale, and runs almost straight north for almost four miles (6 km) until it nears Orangeville. It then bypasses Orangeville heading northwest. At the junction of SR-10 it turns north again and then moves in a north-northwest direction until it reaches its terminus at the southern edge of the Wilberg Mine, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Orangeville (the Wilberg Mine is the location of the fire that took twenty seven lives in 1984).

History

The road from SR-29 at Orangeville Junction south through Orangeville (along Main Street) to SR-10 was added to the state highway system in 1927 as a spur of SR-29,[2] and in 1931 it was split off as SR-57.[3] In 1978, the Utah Transportation Commission adopted a realignment onto a bypass of Orangeville, with a new northern terminus on SR-29 at the county road to the Wilberg Mine. An interchange was built at the new SR-29 junction in 1978,[4] and said county road became an extension of SR-57 in 1982.[5]

Major intersections

The entire route is in Emery County. [6]

Location[6]	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
	0.000	0.000	SR-10 (State Street) – Emery, Price	Southern terminus; SR-10 Exit 34
	2.700	4.345	South Main Street (Orangeville)
	6.588– 6.852	10.602– 11.027	SR-29 – Castle Dale, Joes Valley Dam	Modified diamond interchange
	10.691	17.205	Wilberg Mine	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

"State Route 57 Highway reference". Utah Department of Transportation.
Utah State Legislature (1927). "Chapter 21: Designation of State Roads". Session Laws of Utah. 29. From Ephraim easterly via Orangeville Junction to Castle Dale and from Orangeville Junction southerly via Orangeville to a connection with the Price-Salina Highway.
Utah State Legislature (1931). "Chapter 55: Designation of State Roads". Session Laws of Utah. (57) From Orangeville junction on route 29, southerly via Orangeville to a junction with route 10.
Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory database, 2006
Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: "Route 57". (2.20 MB), updated November 2007, accessed May 2008
"State Highway Map". Utah Department of Transportation. Retrieved 27 May 2008.

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[UDofT-SR57-1] "State Route 57 Highway reference". Utah Department of Transportation.

[2] Utah State Legislature (1927). "Chapter 21: Designation of State Roads". Session Laws of Utah. 29. From Ephraim easterly via Orangeville Junction to Castle Dale and from Orangeville Junction southerly via Orangeville to a connection with the Price-Salina Highway.

[3] Utah State Legislature (1931). "Chapter 55: Designation of State Roads". Session Laws of Utah. (57) From Orangeville junction on route 29, southerly via Orangeville to a junction with route 10.

[4] Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory database, 2006

[resolutions-57-5] Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: "Route 57". (2.20 MB), updated November 2007, accessed May 2008

[udotmap-6] "State Highway Map". Utah Department of Transportation. Retrieved 27 May 2008.