State Route 26 is a state highway

State highway

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 in northern 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...

 running for 3.724 miles (6 km) in Weber County

Weber County, Utah

Weber County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah, occupying a stretch of the Wasatch Front, part of the eastern shores of Great Salt Lake, and much of the rugged Wasatch Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the population was 196,533, an increase of 24.1% over its population in 1990. By...

 from Roy

Roy, Utah

-Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 36,884 people, 10,689 households, and 8,604 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,853 people per square mile . There were 11,053 housing units at an average density of 1,455.3 per square mile...

 to Ogden

Ogden, Utah

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. It serves as a diagonal route through the Ogden suburbs and the primary connector from northbound I-15

Interstate 15 in Utah

In the U.S. state of Utah, Interstate 15 runs north–south through the southwestern and central portions of the state, passing through many of the population centers of that state, including St. George, Provo, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, the latter three being part of the urban area known as...

 to eastbound I-84 and westbound I-84 to southbound I-15.

Route description

SR-26 begins at an intersection with SR-126

Utah State Route 126

State Route 126 is a highway completely within the Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area in northern Utah that makes a loop around Interstate 15 in its more than twenty-one mile path. The street is given the names Main Street, 1900 West and 2000 West respectively from south to north. Previous to...

 in Roy and heads northeast through the Ogden suburbs on Riverside Road, intersecting I-15 and I-84 in close proximity in Riverdale

Riverdale, Utah

Riverdale is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 7,656 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Riverdale is located at ....

 before continuing to end at an intersection with US-89 in Ogden.

History

The road from Roy to Ogden and north from was added to the state highway system in 1910, and in the 1920s it became part of US-91. In 1974, US-91 was truncated through the area, and the piece of old US-91 between SR-84 (now SR-126) in Roy and US-89 in Ogden became State Route 50. In the 1977 renumbering, SR-50 was renumbered to SR-26 (to avoid confusion with US-50).

Major intersections