State: | UT |
Type: | SR |
Route: | 22 |
Map Custom: | yes |
Map Notes: | SR-22 highlighted in red |
Section: | 108 |
Length Mi: | 6.852 |
Length Round: | 3 |
Established: | 1914 as a state highway; 1927 as SR-22 |
Direction A: | South |
Terminus A: | John's Valley Road in Antimony |
Direction B: | North |
Terminus B: | at Otter Creek Junction |
Previous Type: | SR |
Previous Route: | 21 |
Next Type: | SR |
Next Route: | 23 |
State Route 22 (SR-22) is a state highway in southern Utah, running for 6.852miles in Garfield and Piute Counties from Antimony to Otter Creek Reservoir.
SR-22 begins in Antimony as a continuation of John's Valley Road and heads generally north through a canyon to Otter Creek Reservoir and Otter Creek State Park, where it ends at an intersection with SR-62.
The road from Widtsoe north to Antimony became a state highway in 1914, and in 1915 it was extended west to SR-11 (by 1926 US-89) in Junction. A forest road from Widtsoe south to SR-12 at Tropic Junction was added to the system in 1923,[1] and in 1927 the legislature designated the entire route from Junction to Tropic Junction as SR-22.[2] To improve route continuity on a shortcut between California and Colorado that included the portion of SR-22 between US-89 and SR-62 at Otter Creek Junction, that part was transferred to SR-62 in 1967. (With the completion of I-70 through the San Rafael Swell in 1970, this is no longer a popular route.) The legislature removed John's Valley Road from the state highway system in 1969, turning SR-22 into a short spur from SR-62 to the bridge over Antimony Creek just south of Antimony.[1]