{"id":9913593,"date":"2012-09-28T19:58:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T02:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/wy\/wyroutes\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2021-03-23T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T21:16:11","slug":"utah-state-route-261-ut-95-to-ut-316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9913593","title":{"rendered":"Utah State Route 261, SR-95 to SR-316"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: SR-261 and SR-95, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the beginning of one of the more unique highway segments in America, we&#8217;re 22 miles from the craziness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: SR-261 and SR-95, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield at the beginning of this route, best known for carrying the Moki Dugway<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: SR-261 and Moki Dugway, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we approach the Moki Dugway, we&#8217;re told that for the next three miles this road will have 10 percent grades and narrow switchbacks as it reverts to gravel. We&#8217;re basically driving down a cliff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: SR-261 and Moki Dugway, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">800 feet until pavement ends. The speed limit drops to 15, which is appropriate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: SR-261 and Moki Dugway, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield before the Dugway begins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Moki Dugway and SR-261, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Moki Dugway begins. We&#8217;re about to drive off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Moki Dugway, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the top, we&#8217;re about to head straight down there in less than two miles. See google for more professional photos of the Dugway excursion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: SR-261 and SR-316, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After we descend the Dugway, we&#8217;ll approach SR-316<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ut\/261\/95to316\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: SR-261 and SR-316, San Juan Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Follow 261 south to US-163. Follow 316 to the Goosenecks State Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/utah261.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9913594\">S to US-163<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/utah316.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9922740\">W to Goosenecks State Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/utah95.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> W to SR-275, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9913608\">E to US-191<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: SR-261 and SR-95, San Juan Cty At the beginning of one of the more unique highway segments in America, we&#8217;re 22 miles from the craziness. Location: SR-261 and SR-95, San Juan Cty Reassurance shield at the beginning of this route, best known for carrying the Moki Dugway Location: SR-261 and Moki Dugway, San Juan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9913593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9913593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9913593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9913593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9913593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}