Heritage Highway

One of Utah's newest attractions is far from new. Heritage Highway 89 is Utah's first tourist route dedicated solely to offering guests a quality Western heritage experience served up Utah-style. The antique shops, gift stores, bed and breakfast inns, historic sites, traditional celebrations, local foods and heritage tours along the Highway are sure to excite the traveler interested in local history and culture.

While the more traveled interstate rushes visitors between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, U.S Highway 89 offers a much more leisurely traveling experience. Visitors will find countryside still deeply rooted in the farming and ranching lifestyle of Mormon pioneers. Not far below the surface, traces of famous outlaws, Native American cultures, mining barons, Spanish priests and rugged trappers are waiting to be discovered. The Utah Heritage Highway runs parallel to Interstate 15 from Fairview, just south of Provo, to Kanab on the Arizona border along U.S. Highway 89.

The Highway is divided into five main regions:

• Little Denmark named after the influence of Scandinavian pioneers sent by Brigham Young to settle the surrounding area.
• Just south of Little Denmark, Sevier Valley is tied to the rich landscape where farmers and ranchers follow the ancient Native American tradition of living off the land.
• Communities along the Headwaters heritage area are as diverse as their individual traditions, but tied together by the common rivers and tributaries which make the land in Southern Utah blossom.
• While not actually located on the Utah Heritage Highway, the Boulder Mountain Loop begins and ends on U.S. 89 and is truly an awe inspiring heritage by-way.
• The Under The Rim heritage area is named for its location beneath the redrock rims of the Colorado plateau.