State Route 159 is a highway in west-central Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 that runs from the junction of SR-21

Utah State Route 21

State Route 21 is a state highway in western Utah, running for in Millard and Beaver Counties from the Nevada state line near Garrison to Beaver.-Route description:...

 in Garrison

Garrison, Utah

Garrison is an unincorporated town in Millard County, Utah, United States. It is home to a Utah Department of Transportation yard and office, but other than that, offers no services.- Geography :...

 to US-6/US-50 8 miles (12.9 km) to the north near Border

Border, Utah

Border is an unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah, United States, on the Utah and Nevada state line. The community is located 88 miles west of Delta, Utah and 64 miles east of Ely, Nevada....

 by the Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

 border. There are no junctions with any other state highways along SR-159.

Route description

This short highway is mainly used as a cutoff for local Snake Valley

Snake Valley (Utah)

Snake Valley is a north-south trending valley that straddles the Nevada Utah border in the central Great Basin. It is bound by the Snake Range and the Deep Creek Mountains to the west and the Confusion Range to the east...

 residents between Garrison (and SR-21) and the main road in the valley, US 6/50. Motorists traveling from the south to the east, and vice versa, use the SR-159 cutoff. The road does "continue" north of US 6/50 as a dirt road, known commonly as the "Gandy Road." This road travels up Snake Valley toward Gandy

Gandy, Utah

Gandy is a small farming community in Millard County, Utah, located just east of the Nevada border. It is located in the west-central part of Snake Valley. It is known for Gandy Warm Springs and Gandy Creek, a large spring that comes out of the base of Spring Mountain to the west. It stays in...

, Callao

Callao, Utah

Callao is a small farming community in northern Snake Valley, along the border of Juab County and Tooele County, Utah, United States. It was part of the original Pony Express overland route, and was first called Willow Springs in 1860. E. W. Tripp, his wife and son, were the first to establish...

, and eventually to Wendover

Wendover, Utah

Wendover is a city in Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,537 at the 2000 census, with a 2006 estimated population of 1,632....

.

History

The number "159" was previously used for other roads in the state system, including what is now SR 111 (western Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably West Valley City, Murray, Sandy, and West Jordan; its total population is 1,029,655 as of 2010...

) from 1933 to 1945 and the Dividend, Utah road from 1945 to 1969.

The current incarnation of SR-159 was designated in 1979 by the Utah State legislature, and has not been changed since.

Major intersections