U.S. Route 191

U.S. Highway 191 is an offshoot of U.S. Highways 91 with two unconnected branches. The northern part leads over 708 km of Loring, on the border between the United States and Canada to the West Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The southern branch has a length of 2358 km and extends from the southern boundary of Yellowstone National Park to Douglas, Arizona on the border between the United States and Mexico. The highway runs through the states of Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Arizona.

• 2.1 Previous routing
• 2.2 Expansion in 1982
• 2.3 Extensions to

Route

Arizona

U.S. 191 begins in Arizona on the Mexican border in Douglas and runs in a northerly direction to the intersection with Interstate 40 in Sanders on the route of the former U.S. Highways 666 From Cochise from, the Highway is a 20 mile long common route with Interstate 10, Safford on for several miles with U.S. Highway 70 and between Alpina and Saint Johns for 57 miles to U.S. Highway 180

Between Springerville and Morenci the highway is designated as a National Scenic Byway and is named Coronado Trail Scenic Byway, as this section corresponds to the way in about the Francisco Vásquez de Coronado has taken 1540-1542. In this section the road is a dangerous mountain road with sharp curves and narrow or missing side strip and leads to steep slopes along. The highway is the main access route to the Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

About Ganado and Round Rock the Highway leading to Mexican Water, where just before the border with Utah U.S. Highway 160 is crossed.

Utah

U.S. 191 reaches the state of Utah south of Bluff in the territory of the Navajo Nation. In Bluff crosses the eastern terminus of U.S. 191 from U.S. Highway 163, the route continues through sparingly occupied territory northward over Monticello and Moab to Crescent Junction. From there, the highway leads together with Interstate 70 west to Green River, where U.S. 191 turns together with U.S. Highway 8 to the north. Ten miles north of U.S. 191 from Price branches off to the northeast. Between Duchesne and Vernal, the route runs together with U.S. Highway 40 The route then runs north through the eastern part of the Uinta Mountains and then leaves Utah at Flaming Gorge Reservoir.

In Utah, where the highway approaches over the Indian Summit away with Price and again in the Uinta Mountains twice the amount of three thousand meters above sea level, three sections are designated as National Scenic Byways. Between the junctions with U.S. Highway 163 and Utah State Route 95 U.S. 191 is part of the Trail of the Ancients, between Moab and Vernal Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric part of the highways and in Vernal begins the Flaming Gorge - Uintas Scenic Byway.

In Utah, there is about 191 U.S. access to the following parks and monuments:

• Monument Valley
• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
• Hovenweep National Monument
• Natural Bridges National Monument
• Capitol Reef National Park
• Canyonlands National Park
• Arches National Park
• Dead Horse Point State Park
• Dinosaur National Monument

Wyoming

U.S. 191 passes east of Flaming Gorge reservoir to Wyoming. The route passes through a rugged wasteland along a road that was built mostly in the 1970s, to Interstate 80 at Exit 99, just west of Rock Springs. This part of the route is known in Wyoming as " East Flaming Gorge Road ".

North leading around Rock Springs, the route runs along with Interstate 80 east to Exit 104 U.S. 191 then branches off to the north and follows the previous route of U.S. 187 on Eden, Farson and Pinedale to the intersection with U.S. 189 in Daniel Junction. Continue northbound, the highway passes through an increasingly bergigeres grounds for Bridger - Teton National Forest and through the small community of Bondurant, before descending through the narrow gorge of the Hoback River begins. After Hoback Junction U.S. 191 runs on a common portion of U.S. 26 and U.S. 89 along the course of the Snake River to Jackson.

North of Jackson reaches the route of U.S. 191 Grand Teton National Park on a section of track shared with U.S. 26 and U.S. 89 in Moran Junction, these highways U.S. 287 meet; U.S. 191, U.S. 89 and U.S. 287 are jointly northwards, but are not signposted within the park as highways. About the John D Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, the route passes through hilly, wooded terrain to the south entrance of Yellowstone National Park. Within the National Park not an official route of U.S. 191 is signposted.

Montana

U.S. 191 in Montana begins at the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, more precisely on the outskirts of West Yellowstone. The highway runs north and in this case runs on eight miles together with U.S. 287 before he easily turns east and returns to the National Park. It crosses forested, mountainous area and makes a loop to Wyoming before he leaves the National Park at the headwaters of the Gallatin River. The route follows the river through its narrow canyon at Big Sky over to Bozeman. Bozeman is the most populous city on the entire route.

From Bozeman U.S. 191 runs along with Interstate 90 for 58 miles to the east, according to Big Timber, from where the route leads northward again. The road passes through hilly grasslands on the eastern edge of the Crazy Mountains to Harlowton, where U.S. 191 a short section of track shared with U.S. Highway 12 has. North of Harlowton runs U.S. 191 37 miles together with Montana State Route 3 until after Eddie 's Corner, where U.S. 191 then east leads to Lewistown, together with U.S. Highway 87 and Montana State Route 200 The three highways are in this section three assigned to different compass directions; apply toward Lewistown U.S. 191 as the north, south and U.S. 87 as Montana 200 as directed eastward.

U.S. 191 crosses after the Missouri River in the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge and reached the Canadian border behind Malta, Montana. The northern endpoint at the international border is Port Morgan. On Canadian territory, the road leads as Saskatchewan Highway 4 to Swift Current, Alberta.

History

Previous routing

The course of Highways 191 has changed over the years considerably. The road was repeatedly extended and shortened. The original route of the 1926 Association Idaho Falls, Idaho to West Yellowstone, Montana, along the route, which is out today as U.S. Highway 20. West Yellowstone is the only city that is always located at the distance since start. Today, U.S. 191 is almost ten times as long as the actual main line, which was largely abgewidmet.

At times, U.S. 191 was doubly connected with the main line U.S. Highway 91: Idaho Falls, Idaho and Brigham City, Utah. Today, the highway has no connection with the main line and no longer performs Idaho. In Utah, there were two completely different sections of U.S. 191 in different parts of the state. The original section is now Utah State Route 13 and thus largely a shuttle to Interstate 15

Extension 1982

In 1981, 191 become by the construction of Interstate 15 and the extension of other U.S. highways to a stub that connected only West Yellowstone and Malta. Utah and Wyoming rendered in the AASHTO vigorously lobbying for a single highway that would connect the various national parks in the two states of each other so as to boost tourism. The original proposal was that U.S. Highway 163 to the north should be extended up to Wyoming. Later, however, decided to Arizona to be included in these plans and therefore U.S. 191 was extended to the south. Most of the southern sections made ​​use of existing highways, although some new sections were built. With the completion in 1982 reached U.S. 191 to Interstate 40 in Arizona.

In Wyoming included U.S. 191 now former U.S. Highway 187 (now U.S. Highway 287 ) resulted in Rock Springs originally in 1926 as a branch for U.S. Highway 87W in Jackson Lake Junction south to U.S. Highway 30. Although U.S. 187 in 1982 in the U.S. rose 191, leads the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the street number in their most recent list ( 1989 ) or as stand-alone short section of road between Rock Springs and Interstate 80

The combination of new lines and the upgrading of existing County Roads eventually led to a more direct link between derInterstate 80 in Wyoming and the Flaming Gorge Reservoir.

Runs between the state line into Utah and Vernal U.S. 191, mostly on an earlier section of Utah State Route 44 between Duchesne and Helper joined U.S. 191 fully succeed Utah State Route 33 at. Between Crescent Junction and the track was previously marked as U.S. 163, which is now much shorter.

From Bluff to the junction with U.S. 160 in Arizona, the line was rebuilt. This reached U.S. 191 for the first time during its existence Arizona. Between U.S. 160 and I-40, the highway runs along the former Arizona State Route 63

Later extensions

1992 Arizona requested a new number for the share attributable to the State section of U.S. Highway 666, because the street signs are very often stolen with this number. That's why the U.S. was 191 instead extended to the Mexican border in Douglas, Arizona. As one 1999 added the section between Malta and the Canadian border, was U.S. 191 the previously last U.S. Highway that connected the two international borders of the United States together. In 2003, when New Mexico asked for the renumbering of U.S. 666, the rest was renumbered this as highways U.S. Highway 491, the Endziffernfolge 91 was chosen because there is the northern endpoint at an intersection with U.S. 191 in Monticello, Utah.