End of US highway 530

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Approx. time period North terminus South terminus
1926-1939 Echo Jct. UT Kimball Jct. UT

An original 1926 route, the south terminus of US 530 was at Kimball Jct. UT. Today this is where modern UT hwy. 224 has an interchange with I-80 at exit 145, north of Park City...

me, Oct. 2005

...but before the interstate was built, it was eastbound US 40 that approached this junction from Salt Lake City. At far left in the photo above, you can see a pedestrian overpass - the photo below was taken from there:

me, Oct. 2005

That's looking along the eastbound offramp. Right about here at this junction, US 40 continued by turning right (south) and going through Park City along what is now U-224. Straight ahead (along what is now eastbound I-80) was the south beginning of US 530. Below we're looking north at the end of U-224:

me, Oct. 2005

This was westbound US 40, which continued to the left towards Salt Lake. To the right was the south beginning of US 530. It was a very short route - only about 23 miles long - existing to connect US 40 to US 30S.

The other (north) terminus of US 530 was at its junction with US 30S in Echo Jct. UT. Long before the map below was made, US 530 had been swallowed up by a much-longer US 189...

USGS, c. 1967

...and as you can see, the interstates were being built through here. But despite the changes, I still suspect the junction where that map shows US 189 meeting US 30S is the historic north end of US 530. The photo below was taken looking west on Echo Canyon Road, which used to be US 30S. The Weber River runs from left to right across the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in the background; the town of Echo is about a mile ahead: down into the valley and then right. The road going off to the left and disappearing under the railroad is Echo Dam Road. That used to be US 189, and I believe it used to serve as US 530 before that:

me, Mar. 2001

You can't see it in that photo, but I-80 runs along the opposite side of the railroad. Interchange 169 is just past the railroad underpass. The photo below was taken from that interchange, looking north at what used to be the end of US 530:

me, Mar. 2001

To the right is the onramp to eastbound I-80. The first two overpasses are the twin barrels of I-80; the one beyond that is the railroad. In the photo below, we've moved ahead a bit, just past the I-80 bridges:

me, Oct. 2005

In that photo, to the left is the onramp to westbound I-80 (which immediately encounters the east beginning of I-84). Unfortunately I couldn't find a date on this railroad bridge (if you have any information on that, please let me know). But it's obviously quite old, and unless someone informs me otherwise, I'm going to assume that the T-junction straight ahead is where US 530 ended at US 30S. Below we're looking northeast on what used to be eastbound US 30S:

me, Oct. 2005

US 530 began to the right. Upon turning that direction, the view looks like this:

me, Oct. 2005

I believe that was the north beginning of US 530. The route was decommissioned in 1939.