U.S. Route 89

U.S. Highway 89 is a north-south connection in the western United States. It begins at Interstate 40 in Flagstaff and ends on Alberta Highway 2 on the Canadian border. Prior to 1992, however, the highway was still to Nogales on the Mexican border.

Course

Arizona

The highway begins in Flagstaff. He then goes north and runs near the Grand Canyon National Park and Navajo Nation. Near the border with Utah Highway splits into U.S. Highway 89 and U.S. Highway 89A. Today's alternative route that crosses the Colorado River at Lee 's Ferry, was until the 1960s the original highway. Today's routing was built to transport workers and materials to the Glen Canyon Dam. The two highways meet in Kanab, Utah again.

Utah

The first city in Utah is Kanab. From here, the highway heads north, past the Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park. After that affected the Highway Thistle is a ghost town that was destroyed by a landslide in 1983. Shortly thereafter, the highway reaches the Wasatch Front, where the largest cities in Utah are. In Logan, the U.S. 89 University Blvd. mentioned.

Idaho

At Bear Lake, the highway crosses the border with Idaho. In Montpelier where the route crosses U.S. Highway 30 Shortly thereafter, he left Idaho again and also comes to Wyoming.

Wyoming

In Wyoming, the highway through the Star Valley and the Grand Canyon of the Snake River that leads to the Grand Teton National Park, where he runs in Jackson Hole Valley. About the John D Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway it reaches the Yellowstone National Park he crosses to the border of Montana.

Montana

In Gardiner, the highway crosses the border to Montana. Close to Glacier National Park, the highway ends at Alberta Highway 2

Shuttle and Workarounds

  • U.S. Highway 89A between Page and Kanab
  • U.S. Highway 189 between Provo and Jackson
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