The road Clearfield
The road east across Clearfield, and the airman it is named for
The Bernard Fisher Highway, the road Clearfield calls 700 South
SR-193 is the state highway Clearfield knows as 700 South, the road that crosses the middle of the city and runs east toward Hill Air Force Base and west to Interstate 15 at exit 334. In 1997 the city named it the Bernard Fisher Highway for Bernard Fisher, a Medal of Honor airman who grew up in Clearfield and delivered newspapers along it when it was still gravel. What follows is the road, the name behind it, and where it goes. The base itself, its gates and its jet noise, lives on its own page.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
The Bernard Fisher Highway is SR-193, the state road Clearfield calls 700 South. It crosses the middle of the city east to west: east it runs toward the south side of Hill Air Force Base and on to US-89 in Layton, and west it reaches Interstate 15 at exit 334 and carries on toward the West Davis Corridor. Clearfield named it in 1997 for Bernard Fisher, an Air Force pilot who grew up in town, delivered newspapers along this road when it was still gravel, and received the Medal of Honor for a rescue he flew in Vietnam in 1966. So the road a mover sees on a map as SR-193, on a listing as 700 South, and on a sign as the Bernard Fisher Highway is one street with a name worth knowing. Where it goes and what it is named for are both below. The base itself is on its own page.
The road
One street across Clearfield, and the several names it answers to
SR-193 runs straight across the middle of Clearfield, east and west. On the city grid it is 700 South, and that is the name a neighbor will give you for it. It meets Interstate 15 at exit 334, the city's own freeway door, and from that interchange it heads east toward the south side of Hill Air Force Base and on to US-89 in Layton, and west through Syracuse and West Point. The western end reaches the West Davis Corridor, the freeway that opened in January 2024, and the whole route stays inside Davis County.
The reason the road carries more than one name is that more than one body names roads. To the state it is SR-193. To the city it is 700 South. To the interstate it is exit 334. And on the memorial sign it is the Bernard Fisher Highway, the designation Clearfield gave it in 1997. They are all the same asphalt, which is worth holding in mind when a listing, a map, and a road sign each call it something different.
For a mover, the useful shape of it is this. The road is an east and west arterial that carries commuter traffic to and from the base end of town, so it fills at shift changes and quiets between them. It also carries Clearfield's Interstate 15 access at exit 334, which makes an address near it well connected in every direction. Drive it once in the morning and once in the early afternoon and you will have its measure. The base end of it, the gates and the flight line, belongs to the base and to the Hill Air Force Base page, not here.
The road, in plain terms
The road, in numbers
334
its Interstate 15 exit, in Clearfield
700 S
what the city calls the same road
1997
the year it was named for Bernard Fisher
1966
the year of the rescue behind the name
The name
Bernard Fisher, and the paper route that became a highway
Bernard Francis Fisher was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1927, was raised and educated in Utah, and called Clearfield home. He became a United States Air Force pilot. On March 10, 1966, over the A Shau Valley in Vietnam, he landed his aircraft on an airstrip that was under fire to pick up a downed fellow pilot and fly him out. For that rescue President Lyndon B. Johnson presented him the Medal of Honor at the White House on January 19, 1967, and he was the first airman to receive the medal in the Vietnam War. That is the action at the level a page about a road should carry it. The full citation belongs to the Air Force.
The Clearfield half of the story is the part that earns the road its name. As a younger man, before any of the medals, Fisher delivered newspapers along this same road when it was an unpaved gravel track. A boy's paper route on a dirt road became a state highway with his name on the sign, and it is the same road that runs east toward the base on the edge of his home town. In November 1997, Clearfield made it official and designated its stretch of SR-193 the Bernard Fisher Highway.
The naming took a neighbor's effort. A Clearfield resident named Christino Casias, a military man, spent about a year working with officials from Clearfield, from Layton, and from the Utah Department of Transportation to arrange the designation. Fisher, by then a retired Air Force colonel, attended the ceremony at the park that also carries his name, and said at the time that it was quite an honor and that he could not wait to be there.
The city kept his name in two places. Its parks page gives the full name of the sixteen acre park on the east side of town as Bernard F. Fisher Park, and the page on that park covers what is there now. So Clearfield put one name on a highway and on a park a short distance apart. There is also a Colonel Bernard Fisher Veterans Memorial Park in Kuna, Idaho, which is a different place and should not be confused with the Clearfield one.
A boy rode this road with a bag of newspapers when it was gravel. Years later a state highway ran the same line with his name on the sign.
Two other uses
Once a year it carries a parade, and a trail runs beside it the rest of the time
Clearfield walks this road once a year. Each Fourth of July the city's Hometown Parade starts at City Hall, heads down State Street, then turns up SR-193 to the high school. State Street is the older diagonal road through town and SR-193 is the road east toward the base, so the parade walks the two streets that shaped the city in the order they arrived. It is the one morning a year the road carries people instead of traffic.
The quieter use is a path. Clearfield's 200 South Trail runs east and west from the Center Street bridge along State Road 193 and connects to the Syracuse Trail, so a walking and riding path shares the same corridor as the highway, which very few arterials in the county offer. The city maintains two other named trails as well: the Canal Trail, which follows the Weber Basin Canal to the Layton border, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Rail Trail, which the city describes as part of the Golden Spoke network running more than a hundred miles from Ogden to Provo.
The Center Street bridge at the trail's western end is a small civic landmark in its own right, and the city uses it for community events through the summer. None of this touches the base, and that is on purpose. The flight line, the museum, the air show, and the jet noise a mover deserves stated plainly are all on the Hill Air Force Base page. This page stays on the road.
Driving it
How to find it, and what to know before you drive it
From Clearfield City Hall, head south to 700 South and turn east, and the road runs straight from there. Interstate 15 is a short distance west at exit 334, and from that interchange the road carries on west through Syracuse and West Point. Going east it runs toward the south side of Hill Air Force Base and continues to US-89 in Layton. Near Main Street it crosses State Street, the city's other main road, so a turn there puts you on both of Clearfield's arterials in one move.
Before you drive it
- Traffic is not spread evenly through the day. The road fills with commuter volume at shift changes and thins out between them, so time yourself on it rather than trusting an average.
- Gate names and hours at Hill Air Force Base are set and published by the base, and they change. Check the current position at the base before planning a commute around a particular gate.
- The 200 South Trail runs on its own alignment beside the eastern half, not on the shoulder, and it connects to the Syracuse Trail at the west end of the city.
- On the Fourth of July the eastern half is a parade route in the morning, the one predictable closure of the year.
Gate hours belong to the base, not to this page. The road runs east to the south side of Hill Air Force Base, and its Interstate 15 interchange is exit 334, but which entrance is open, and when, is set and published by the base and changes without much notice. Check it at Hill Air Force Base before you plan a daily drive around it. Everything about the installation is on the Hill Air Force Base page.
Scott Buehler
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Quick answers
SR-193, answered
Bernard Francis Fisher was a United States Air Force officer and a Medal of Honor recipient, the first airman to receive the medal in the Vietnam War. He was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1927, was raised and educated in Utah, and called Clearfield home. As a young man he delivered newspapers along the gravel road that later became SR-193, the highway Clearfield named for him in 1997.
Clearfield named it. In November 1997 the city designated its stretch of SR-193 the Bernard Fisher Highway, honoring Bernard Fisher, the Medal of Honor airman who grew up in Clearfield and delivered papers along the same road when it was still an unpaved gravel track. The city put his name on a park on the east side of town as well, so the honor sits on both a highway and a park a short distance apart.
It is the road Clearfield calls 700 South, an east and west state highway that crosses the middle of the city. The same road carries several names: SR-193 to the state, 700 South on the city grid, exit 334 where it meets Interstate 15, and the Bernard Fisher Highway on the memorial sign. If a listing says 700 South, a map says SR-193, and a sign says Bernard Fisher Highway, they all describe one road.
East and west across Davis County. On the Clearfield end it runs east toward the south side of Hill Air Force Base and on to US-89 in Layton. Heading west it reaches Interstate 15 at exit 334, then continues through Syracuse and West Point to the West Davis Corridor, which opened in January 2024. The whole route stays inside Davis County.
On March 10, 1966, over the A Shau Valley in Vietnam, Fisher landed his aircraft on an airstrip under fire to pick up a downed fellow pilot and fly him out. President Lyndon B. Johnson presented him the Medal of Honor at the White House on January 19, 1967. That is the action at the level a page about a road should carry it. The full citation belongs to the Air Force.
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 it honors the same Bernard Fisher as the highway. There is also a Colonel Bernard Fisher Veterans Memorial Park in Kuna, Idaho, which is a different place and should not be confused with the Clearfield park.
A Clearfield resident, Christino Casias, a military man, worked for about a year with officials from Clearfield, from Layton, and from the Utah Department of Transportation to arrange the designation. Fisher, by then a retired Air Force colonel, attended the ceremony at the park that also carries his name.
Yes. The road runs east to the south side of Hill Air Force Base and its interchange with Interstate 15 is exit 334. Gate names, hours, and which entrance is open to whom are set and published by the base, and they change, so check the current position at Hill Air Force Base before planning a commute around one. Everything about the installation itself lives on the Hill Air Force Base page.
Yes. Clearfield's 200 South Trail runs east and west from the Center Street bridge along State Road 193 and connects to the Syracuse Trail, so a path shares the corridor with the highway. The city maintains two other named trails, the Canal Trail along the Weber Basin Canal and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Rail Trail, which the city describes as part of the Golden Spoke network running more than a hundred miles from Ogden to Provo.
The Bernard Fisher Highway, and the town it runs through
This is one of the main roads across Clearfield, the street the city calls 700 South and named in 1997 for a Medal of Honor airman who grew up beside it. If an address near this road is on your list, drive it at a shift change before you decide, and read up on the base itself on its own page. Tell me what you are weighing and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who knows this corridor, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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