The road Clearfield
One road with four names, and a state code that answers the question the maps keep getting wrong
The Bernard Fisher Highway, and which entrance it really runs to.
Utah Code 72-4-125, effective 7 May 2025, defines SR-193 as running from Route 110 in West Point easterly through Syracuse, Clearfield and Layton, past the south entrance to Hill Air Force Base to Route 89. Clearfield calls the same road 700 South and takes exit 334 off it. On a Saturday in November 1997 the city named it for Bernard Fisher, a Medal of Honor airman who grew up here and delivered newspapers along it when it was gravel. This is the road, the name, the parade that runs it and the trail beside it. No gate hours: those belong to the installation.
I work Southern Utah, four hours and a mountain range away from the north end of Davis County, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them was read where it is issued: the city's own parks, aquatic, public works and development pages at clearfield.city, its August 2026 newsletter, its 2024 water use filing with the state, the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service on the naval depot, the Utah Historical Quarterly account written the year the depot was sold, the codified state highway definition at le.utah.gov, the Freeport Center operator's own tenant directory, the North Davis Sewer District and the presidential remarks of January 1967. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
Which entrance to the air force base does Clearfield's own road actually run to?
The south entrance, and the state code says so in one sentence. Utah Code 72-4-125, in the version effective 7 May 2025, checked in August 2026, defines the route this way: SR-193, from Route 110 in West Point easterly through Syracuse, Clearfield and Layton, past the south entrance to Hill Air Force Base to Route 89. The version it replaced, effective 4 May 2022, began the route at 3000 West instead and used the same words about the south entrance. Two consecutive codifications, one clause, and it is the entrance at the southern end of the installation.
This matters because the wrong answer is in wide circulation, including on this website. The practical city guide for Clearfield names a western entrance in four separate places, one of which sits inside its own structured data, and describes the city's 700 South as running straight to it. On the codified definition of the road that is not what it does. The finding has been reported and it is not this page's to fix, but no page in this companion repeats it. The county page on the installation places the south gate at interstate exit 334, which is this road's interchange, from the base's own gate fact sheet.
What this page will not do is print an hour. Gate names, gate hours and which gate is open to whom are the installation's to publish, they change, and three different published sources give three different pictures of them. Check them at the base before you plan a commute around one. The road, on the other hand, is a fixed and publishable thing: it is Clearfield's 700 South, its interstate exit 334, its parade route, the alignment of one of its three named trails, and since a Saturday in November 1997 it has been the Bernard Fisher Highway.
The road, in numbers
334
the interstate exit, in Clearfield
700 S
what the city calls the same road
1997
the year it was named for Bernard Fisher
1966
the action the name comes from
The record
One road, four names, and a codified definition that settles the argument in a line.
This road answers to a state route number, a city street number, a memorial designation and an interstate exit, and different documents use different ones, which is most of why the entrance question ever became confused. Here is each name with the body that uses it, checked in August 2026.
| What it is called | Who calls it that | Where the name applies | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| SR-193 | The Utah Legislature, in Utah Code 72-4-125 | The full route, from Route 110 in West Point east to Route 89 in Layton | This is the definition that places the south entrance to Hill Air Force Base on this road and nowhere else |
| 700 South | Clearfield City, in its own street grid | The Clearfield section of the same road | A resident giving directions will say 700 South. A map will say SR-193. They are the same asphalt |
| The Bernard Fisher Highway | Clearfield City, from a ceremony on Saturday 8 November 1997 | The designation as reported at the time; the current signed extent should be confirmed with the state transport department | It is the only road in this county named for an individual who grew up on it |
| Exit 334 | The interstate numbering | A diamond interchange with I-15 inside Clearfield | It is the city's own freeway door and the county page places the base's south gate at this exit |
| The parade route, second half | The city's own Fourth of July event site | From the State Street junction east to the high school | The one day a year the road carries people rather than traffic |
| The 200 South Trail alignment | Clearfield City parks and trails | East and west from the Center Street bridge along State Road 193, connecting to the Syracuse Trail | You can walk or ride most of this corridor on a path rather than a shoulder, which very few arterials in this county allow |
The codified route definition is Utah Code 72-4-125, subsection 2, in the version effective 7 May 2025, read at le.utah.gov on 16 August 2026; the superseded version effective 4 May 2022 carried the same south entrance wording and a different western start point. The 1997 designation and its date come from the Deseret News report of 8 November 1997. The trail and parade descriptions are the city's own, read the same day. No gate hour appears anywhere on this page: gate names, hours and access rules are published by the installation, they change, and they should be checked there.
The details
Getting there
From City Hall, go south on State Street to the 700 South junction and turn east; the road runs straight from there. The interstate access is exit 334 a short distance west of that junction, and the road continues west from the interchange toward Syracuse and West Point. Going east it climbs gently toward the installation boundary and then continues to US-89 in Layton. The Center Street bridge, at the western end of the 200 South Trail, is a short distance north of the State Street junction and is a city venue in its own right.
Before you go
- Traffic on this road is not evenly spread through the day. It carries commuter volume at shift changes and thins out between them, which is worth timing yourself rather than reading about.
- Gate hours and gate access rules are published by the installation and are not printed here. Three separate published sources disagree with each other.
- The trail along the eastern half runs on its own alignment rather than on the shoulder, and it connects to the Syracuse Trail at the western end of the city.
- On the Fourth of July the eastern half of the road is a parade route in the morning. That is the one predictable closure in the year.
The name
A boy delivered newspapers along it when it was gravel, and thirty one years later the state named it after him.
Bernard Francis Fisher was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1927, was raised and educated in Utah, and called Clearfield home. On 10 March 1966, flying an A-1E over the A Shau valley in Vietnam, he landed on a besieged airstrip under fire to pick up a downed fellow pilot and fly him out. On 19 January 1967, in the East Room of the White House, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented him with the Medal of Honor, and said in his own remarks that Fisher was the first Air officer to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam. That single sentence is the whole of the citation this page will carry, because the citation belongs to the Air Force and not to a page about a road. The presidential remarks are the record of the presentation and were checked in August 2026.
The Clearfield half of the story is the part nobody publishes and it is better. On Saturday 8 November 1997, Clearfield designated its section of state route 193 the Bernard Fisher Highway. The Deseret News report of that day records the detail that makes the whole thing worth a page: Fisher had delivered newspapers along that road as a younger man, when it was an unpaved gravel track, and, in the paper's phrasing, nobody called him a hero then. A boy's paper route on a dirt road became a named state highway, and it is the same road that runs east to the installation on the edge of his home town.
The naming did not happen by itself. According to the same report, Christino Casias, described as a Clearfield resident and a military man, coordinated the effort for about a year with officials from Clearfield, from Layton and from the Utah Department of Transportation. A resident spent a year on the paperwork to get a state highway renamed. Fisher, then a 72 year old retired Air Force colonel, was quoted saying: "That's just pretty neat. I think they're doing me too much justice. It's quite an honor. I can't wait to be there." He and his wife Realla were to attend the ceremony, at the park that also carries his name, with dignitaries, speeches and a possible flyover.
The city has kept the name in two places rather than one. Its parks page calls the sixteen acre park on the east side of town Bernard F. Fisher Park in full, and the page on that park covers what is actually there now, which is three lit baseball diamonds, two lit soccer fields, an electronic playground and a fourteen thousand square foot skate park. That page names Fisher once and sends you back here for the reason, because there is no sense in telling the same story twice on one companion.
He rode a bicycle down it with a bag of newspapers. Thirty one years later a state highway ran along the same line with his name on the sign.
The two other uses
Once a year it carries a parade, and every other day it carries a trail alongside it.
The city walks this road deliberately once a year and the route description is one of the best sentences any Utah city publishes about itself. From the city's own Fourth of July site, checked in August 2026: the route begins at City Hall and heads down State Street, then up SR-193 to the high school. State Street is SR-126, the older diagonal arterial that predates everything federal here. SR-193 is the road east to the installation. The parade therefore starts on the farming town's road and finishes on the defence economy's road, in that order, which is the entire twentieth century history of this city expressed as a morning walk. The 2026 parade was at half past nine on 4 July and has happened; no 2027 date is published.
The other use is the one that surprises people. Clearfield publishes three named city trails, and one of them, the 200 South Trail, runs east and west from the Center Street bridge along State Road 193 and connects to the Syracuse Trail. So the corridor that carries the arterial also carries a path. The other two are the Canal Trail, following the Weber Basin Canal from 650 North to University Park Boulevard at the Layton border, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Rail Trail, which crosses the city north to south and is, in the city's own description, part of the Golden Spoke network of more than a hundred miles running from Ogden to Provo. The city publishes all three and no segment lengths for any of them, which is why none is printed here.
The Center Street bridge at the trail's western end deserves a sentence because it is a civic venue in its own right and appears nowhere on the practical city guide. The city painted it as a public event on 29 June 2026 as part of the Fourth of July programme, and ran a bubble party on it on 15 August 2026 with carnival games and water activities. A pedestrian bridge that a city programmes twice in one summer is a real place, even though the city publishes no address, length or build date for it.
What none of this touches is the installation itself, and that is deliberate. The aircraft, the flight line, the museum on Cottonwood Street, the biennial air show now set for 19 and 20 June 2027, the employment footprint and the published noise contours are all the county page's, written once for fifteen cities. This page stops at the boundary fence and stays on the asphalt.
No hour, gate name or access rule for the installation appears on this page, and none should be taken from any page about it. Three separate published sources describe the base's entrances three different ways, with different names, different counts and different hours, and the installation's own gate fact sheet would not load to a direct request. What is stable and codified is the road: Utah Code 72-4-125 places the south entrance to Hill Air Force Base on SR-193, and the county page places the south gate at interstate exit 334. Everything past that, including which entrance is open at what hour and to whom, is the installation's to publish and changes without notice. Check it at the base, not here, and not at an aggregator.
Living with it
An arterial that fills twice a day and empties in between.
For a household weighing an address near this road, the honest framing is that it is a commuter arterial with a very pronounced daily shape. It carries heavy volume at shift changes at each end of the working day and comparatively little between them, which is different from a road that is simply busy. That means proximity to it is a genuinely mixed proposition: excellent access to the interstate at exit 334 and to everything east and west, and a specific and predictable traffic pattern that a street one block off it does not have. Drive it at seven in the morning and again at two in the afternoon and you will have the measure of it.
The second practical thing is the corridor's other functions. There is a trail alongside part of it, which is a real amenity and unusual on an arterial. There is a parade on it once a year. And there is a state route designation and a memorial designation on the same asphalt, which means directions, listings and mapping software will use three different names for the road an address sits near. If you are working from a listing that says 700 South and a map that says SR-193 and a sign that says Bernard Fisher Highway, all three are the same place.
What this page cannot tell you, because no page can, is what the installation will do. Gate configurations change, entrances open and close, and the county page carries the current picture as published by the base. What is durable is the geography: this is the road, exit 334 is the door, and the entrance at the southern end of the installation is the one the state code puts on this alignment. The county page is the place for everything else about it.
The last thing is the name, and it is worth keeping in view when the traffic is bad. A resident spent a year getting this road renamed for a man who had delivered newspapers along it before it was paved, and the city put the same name on a sixteen acre park a mile away. Very few arterials in Utah carry that. The mover page carries what the rest of an address here asks for.
The installation
Hill Air Force Base
The base as a place and an economy, with the gates, the museum, the air show and the noise contours.
Read the guideThe same name
Fisher Park
Sixteen acres on the east side with a fourteen thousand square foot skate park and the town's big night.
Read the guideThe west end
The Freeport Center
What the Navy built on the other side of the city, and the tax law that gave it its name.
Read the guideOff the road
Steed Park
Two parks of eleven and a half acres each, sixteen lit courts, and a rail trail connection at both.
Read the guideThe practical side
The Clearfield city guide
Where the figures are: what sells on these streets, what the levy runs to, who bills you.
Open the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
Every town on this stretch of I-15, and the county subjects none of them writes alone.
The region hubKeep reading
More of Clearfield on The Local.
The depot
The Freeport Center
841 acres of farms in 1942, 38 miles of track by 1943, and letters instead of streets.
Read the guideThe downtown
Clearfield Station
The city that never had a downtown is buying one, 28 million dollars of pipe first.
Read the guideThe pool
The Aquatic Center
The voters said no to the tax, and the council found another instrument entirely.
Read the guideThe courts
Steed Park
Two parks of 11.5 acres each, sixteen lit courts, and a curfew at midnight.
Read the guideThe park
Fisher Park
Sixteen acres, a 14,000 square foot skate park, and the town's one big night.
Read the guideMoving here
Clearfield or Layton
One bill, one sewer district, no irrigation water, and a grid that runs into Sunset.
Read the guideThe companion
Clearfield, in full
Two federal installations, no historic main street, and a downtown going in beside the platform.
Read the pageQuick answers
SR-193, answered.
The south entrance. Utah Code 72-4-125, in the version effective 7 May 2025 and read at le.utah.gov on 16 August 2026, defines SR-193 as running from Route 110 in West Point easterly through Syracuse, Clearfield and Layton, past the south entrance to Hill Air Force Base to Route 89. The superseded version effective 4 May 2022 used the same south entrance wording. The county page on the installation independently places the south gate at interstate exit 334, which is this road's interchange. The practical city guide on this site names a western entrance in four places and is wrong on the codified definition of the road.
This page does not print them and neither should any page about the base. Three separate published accounts give three different versions of how many entrances there are, what they are called and when each is open, and the installation's own gate fact sheet was unreachable when checked in August 2026. Gate configurations and hours are set and published by the base, they change, and a commute planned on a second hand hour is a commute planned on nothing. Check the current position at the installation itself before relying on it.
Because Clearfield named it that on Saturday 8 November 1997, for Bernard Francis Fisher, a United States Air Force officer who was raised and educated in Utah and called Clearfield home. On 10 March 1966 he landed his aircraft on a besieged airstrip in the A Shau valley in Vietnam under fire to rescue a downed fellow pilot, and on 19 January 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson presented him with the Medal of Honor in the East Room of the White House. The detail that makes the naming fit is that Fisher had delivered newspapers along that road as a younger man, when it was an unpaved gravel track.
A resident. According to the Deseret News report of 8 November 1997, Christino Casias, described as a Clearfield resident and a military man, coordinated the designation over about a year with officials from Clearfield, from Layton and from the Utah Department of Transportation. Fisher, then a 72 year old retired colonel, was quoted in the same piece saying that it was pretty neat, that he thought they were doing him too much justice, that it was quite an honour and that he could not wait to be there. He and his wife Realla were to attend the ceremony at the park that also carries his name.
The same road as SR-193. Clearfield numbers it 700 South in its own street grid, the state code calls it SR-193, the memorial designation is the Bernard Fisher Highway and the interstate calls its interchange exit 334. All four refer to the same asphalt, which is a large part of why the question of which base entrance it serves has been answered inconsistently for years. If a listing says 700 South, a map says SR-193 and a sign says Bernard Fisher Highway, they are describing one road across the middle of Clearfield.
The codified definition effective 7 May 2025 starts it at Route 110 in West Point, which is the West Davis Corridor, and runs it easterly through Syracuse, Clearfield and Layton, past the south entrance to Hill Air Force Base, to Route 89 in Layton. The previous codification, effective 4 May 2022, started the route at 3000 West instead, so the western end has been extended by statute within the last few years. The whole route lies inside Davis County. Its interchange with the interstate is the diamond at exit 334 in Clearfield.
Yes. The city publishes a 200 South Trail running east and west from the Center Street bridge along State Road 193 and connecting to the Syracuse Trail, which puts a path on the same corridor as the arterial. The city publishes two other named trails: the Canal Trail, following the Weber Basin Canal from 650 North to University Park Boulevard at the Layton border, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Rail Trail, which crosses the city and is described by the city as part of the Golden Spoke network of more than a hundred miles from Ogden to Provo. No segment length is published for any of the three, so none is printed here.
In the city's own words on its Fourth of July event site, checked in August 2026: the route begins at City Hall and heads down State Street, then up SR-193 to the high school. That is the older diagonal arterial, which is SR-126, followed by the road east toward the installation, which is SR-193. It is the city's whole geography walked once a year in the order it arrived. The 2026 parade was at 9:30am on 4 July and has happened, and no 2027 date is published anywhere, so take it from the city rather than from any listing.
Yes. The city's parks page gives the full name as Bernard F. Fisher Park, a sixteen acre park on the east side of Clearfield, and the accounts in circulation date its dedication to August 1967, shortly after the Medal of Honor was presented, although the city's own page for the park is a photograph stub with no text on it. So the city has put the same name on a park and on a state highway a short distance apart. There is also a Colonel Bernard Fisher Veterans Memorial Park in Kuna, Idaho, which is a different place entirely and should not be attributed to Clearfield.
One road, four names, and a code section that settles the argument.
This is the most consequential single street in Clearfield and it is also the most consistently misdescribed. It is SR-193 in the state code, 700 South on the city grid, exit 334 on the interstate and the Bernard Fisher Highway on the sign, and the codified definition of it puts the south entrance to the installation on this alignment, not a west one. If an address near it is on your list, drive it at a shift change before you decide, and check the gate position at the installation rather than at any page describing it. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who works this corridor, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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