The roughly 130 mile distance on US 6 between I-15 in Spanish Fork, Utah and I-70 near Green River, Utah is chock full of mountainous and desert scenery along with a bit of transportation history as well. Traveling eastbound, you quickly leave the suburban sprawl of the Wasatch Front, then go through the Spanish Fork Canyon and Price Canyon, bypassing the cities of Price and Helper, then settling into flatter desert terrain closer to I-70. US 6 through this part of Utah is part of a major shortcut between the Salt Lake City and Provo areas of the Wasatch Front with Moab and neighboring Colorado. Amtrak's California Zephyr also runs along the same corridor as US 6 in this area as well, so one can enjoy the terrain and scenery by rail as well as by road. This stretch of US 6 was considered for construction of an Interstate highway between Denver and the Salt Lake City area (likely to have been part of I-70). It was argued that due to the terrain, it would have been very costly to bu...
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