Utah State Route 143
As State Route 143 or Brian Head - Panguitch Lake Scenic Byway or Utah's Patchwork Parkway refers to a 82.4 km long state highway in the U.S. state of Utah. It connects with Panguitch Parowan and granted access to Brian Head, Cedar Breaks National Monument and Panguitch Lake. The road reaches its highest point at an altitude of 3241 m above sea level and is now after the Mirror Lake Highway with 3265 m the second highest paved State Route Utah.
Route description
The route begins at the junction Parowan Interstate 15 just west of Parowan in Iron County. First, it leads around three kilometers east to the center Parowan, where they head for the Main Street and leads on this two blocks to the north. At this point, State Route 143 branches across the Center Street to the east, while the Main Street as Utah State Route 274 continues northward. After three more road blocks, the route leaves the city and proposes a southerly direction. It follows the Parowan Creek and leads the Parowan Canyon up. During the ascent of the canyon south it reaches the Dixie National Forest and passes the winter Brian Head to lead there from the canyon out to the Markagunt Plateau and the northeastern corner of Cedar Breaks National Monument. Then the track at the northern terminus of the Utah State Route 148 pivots ( the Cedar Breaks Scenic Highway) to the east again. It reaches its highest point where it leaves the Cedar Breaks National Monument and the long descent begins eastward and northward into the Garfield County. As the track the Dixie National Forest leaves, it is most Panguitch Lake past and as Panguitch Lake Road further down to eventually extend from the south as Main Street Panguitch and at the junction with U.S. Highway 89 ( Center Street ) in the city center to end.
History
State Route 143 was the first time in 1933, presented in the Strait of Parowan, the boundary of the Dixie National Forests in service. This route was extended in 1953, so that they, led by the Utah State Route 1 in Parowan ( Main Street ) to the northern boundary of the Cedar Breaks National Monument. The total length was about 27 km. The state turned 1963, the endpoints of the segment to now lead from the northern boundary of the National Monuments north to Route 1 in Parowan; the route itself remained unchanged.
As 1968 Interstate 15 was built west of Parowan over, the State Government, the one to relocate State Route also decided to deal with the highway the city. It was decided, 15 to keep the old route between Interstate in Summit southwest of Parowan to Center Street in Parowan as Utah State Route 38 and State Route 143 to extend through the north Parowans to Interstate 15.
Prior to 1969 Utah State Route 55 from the Utah State Route 14 led to the southern boundary of Cedar Breaks National Monument, but was canceled in 1969, this track was recorded as part of State Route 143. This created the torn apart character of the State Route 143, because the section was reported through the National Monument not as State Route.
In 1975, the construction of the Interstate was completed, which was now a second port, which is not found in the original plans. Therefore, State Route 143 was in the city a new course on the old Route 38 south and then to the 200 South to the new termination location of the I- 15th The rest of Route 38 was deleted from the directory of the State Highway. The established in 1968 Extension of State Route 143 in Parowan to the north became the State Route 274
The southern section of today's State Route 143 between State Route 14 and the southern boundary of the Cedar Breaks National Monument, 1985 restated as SR- 148, and Panguitch Lake Road from the eastern boundary of the National Monuments to U.S. 89 in Panguitch the State was Route 143 affiliated. With the same law decision was made for the road section within the National Monuments of the State Routes would, as soon as the federal would the Utah Department of Transportation transferred the right of way for it. The text was adapted in 1994 to reflect the fact that this transfer has already taken place. Interestingly, the State Route 148 still ends at the southern boundary of the National Monuments.
The line was as Utah's Patchwork Parkway declared 1989 as Brian Head - Panguitch Lake Scenic Byway to a Utah Scenic Byway and 2000 to a Forest Service Byway. Classification as an All - American Road is being considered.