US 89

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About US 89

U.S. Route 89 offers some of the most spectacular Scenery in the country. Please post Photo's taken close to US 89

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Length: 1,252[1] mi (2,015 km)
Formed: 1926 (WY, ID, UT, AZ), 1934 (MT)[1]
South end: I-40 at Flagstaff, AZ
Major
junctions: I-80 at Salt Lake City, UT

I-90 near Bozeman, MT

North end: ALB 2 at Canadian border in Piegan, MT
United States Numbered Highways

U.S. Route 89 is a north-south United States highway with two sections. The northern section runs for 404 miles (650 km) from northern Montana to the northern entrance of Yellowstone National Park. The southern section runs for 848 miles (1,365 km) from the southern entrance of Yellowstone National Park to Flagstaff, Arizona.

Highway 89 passes through some of the most beautiful parts of Wyoming, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, the Grand Canyon of the Snake River, and Star Valley. It passes beautiful Bear Lake in Idaho.

In Utah the highway follows the route of the pioneer highway called State Street, so named because it leads straight through Salt Lake Valley to the front steps of the Utah State Capitol building. U.S. Route 89 follows this older route from Brigham City in the north to at least Manti in central Utah. It passes through Logan Canyon in the north and close to Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion National Park in the south.

The Kanab to Mt Carmel and Long Valley Scenic Byway is 60 miles long and runs 60 miles from Kanab, up Long Valley, through Mount Carmel to the junction of Utah Route 12 between Hatch and Panguitch.

In Arizona it crosses the Grand Canyon at Page and travels southward through the Navajo Indian Reservation to Flagstaff. U.S. Route 89 was commissioned in 1926.


Termini
As of 2005, the highway's northern terminus is Piegan, Montana at the Canadian border (the highway continues into Canada as Alberta Highway 2). Its southern terminus is Flagstaff, Arizona. Prior to 1992, the southern terminus was at Nogales, Arizona.