{{short description|State highway in Utah, United States}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road |state=UT |type=SR |route=22 |map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=325|frame-height=290|type=line|from=Utah State Route 22.map}} |map_custom=yes |map_notes=SR-22 highlighted in red |section=108 |length_mi=6.852 |length_round=3 |length_ref=<ref name=u22desc>{{UDOT Reference Info |route=SR-22}}</ref> |established=1914 as a state highway; 1927 as SR-22 |direction_a=South |terminus_a=Johns Valley Road in Antimony |direction_b=North |terminus_b={{jct|state=UT|SR|62}} at Otter Creek Junction |previous_type=SR |previous_route=21 |next_type=SR |next_route=23 }} '''State Route 22''' ('''SR-22''') is a state highway in southern Utah, running for {{convert|6.852|mi|km}} in Garfield and Piute Counties from Antimony to Otter Creek Reservoir.
==Route description== SR-22 begins in Antimony as a continuation of Johns Valley Road and heads generally north through a canyon to Otter Creek Reservoir and Otter Creek State Park, where it ends at an intersection with SR-62.<ref name=u22desc/>
==History== The road from Widtsoe north to Antimony became a state highway in 1914, and in 1915 it was extended west to SR-11 (by 1926 US-89) in Junction. A forest road from Widtsoe south to SR-12 at Tropic Junction was added to the system in 1923,<ref name=resolutions-22>{{UDOT Resolutions |routenum=22 }} {{small|(4.19 MB)}}, updated September 2007, accessed May 2008</ref> and in 1927 the legislature designated the entire route from Junction to Tropic Junction as SR-22.<ref>{{cite UTSR law|year=1927|quote=22. From Junction via Antimony and Widtsoe to Tropic Junction Garfield county.}}</ref> To improve route continuity on a shortcut between California and Colorado that included the portion of SR-22 between US-89 and SR-62 at Otter Creek Junction, that part was transferred to SR-62 in 1967. (With the completion of I-70 through the San Rafael Swell in 1970, this is no longer a popular route.) The legislature removed Johns Valley Road from the state highway system in 1969, turning SR-22 into a short spur from SR-62 to the bridge over Antimony Creek just south of Antimony.<ref name=resolutions-22/>
==Major intersections== {{Jcttop|length_ref=<ref name=u22desc/>}} {{UTint |county=Garfield |location=Antimony |type= |mile=0.000 |road=Johns Valley Road |notes=Southern terminus }} {{UTint |county=Piute |location=Otter Creek Junction |type= |mile=6.852 |road={{jct|state=UT|SR|62|city1=Junction|city2=Koosharem}} |notes=Northern terminus }} {{Jctbtm}}
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