The street Sunset
Sunset's commercial street and the interstate right behind it
Main Street and the freeway in Sunset
Main Street is Sunset's one commercial street, State Route 126, and Interstate 15 runs immediately behind its east side, close enough that the city's own plan says the freeway took out the east side of the street when it came through in the 1960s. Here is what the street and the corridor are for someone weighing an address: what is on Main, how close the traffic sits, where you get on the freeway, and where you actually shop.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Main Street is where Sunset keeps its shops, and the interstate runs right behind it. Main Street is State Route 126, the old surface highway up this side of the valley, and it holds nearly all of the city's businesses along a stretch a little over a mile and a half long. Interstate 15 sits immediately behind the east side of the street, well under a hundred yards from the pavement, which is why Main has a built-up west side and almost nothing on the east. Your freeway on-ramp is exit 335 at 650 North, about a minute from most of town. For a full grocery run or the big stores, most of the north county drives a few minutes south into Clearfield or Layton.
The street
Main Street is the city's one commercial street
Main Street is where Sunset keeps its shops. The city's general plan puts about 94 percent of Sunset's land in homes, with the commercial ground concentrated along Main and a couple of small pockets on 1300 North and 1800 North. So when people here say Main Street, they mean the business street, more or less the only one. It runs the length of the city, a little over a mile and a half, as State Route 126, and it was part of the old surface highway that carried traffic up this side of the valley before the interstate arrived.
One thing worth clearing up, because it trips people up in older paperwork. Main Street is SR-126. You will sometimes see it written as SR-26, but that is a different road, Riverdale Road, up in Weber County near Roy, and the two get mixed up now and then. If a document about a Sunset property names a state route, it means State Route 126.
As a street to use, Main is a straightforward arterial, posted 40, with the storefronts on the west and the freeway close behind the east. It carries real traffic, on the order of 23,000 to 25,000 vehicles a day in the last published state counts, enough to keep a row of businesses going but not enough to make it a shopping destination. For a full grocery run or the big-box stores, you drop into Clearfield or Layton a few minutes south, which is how most of the north county shops anyway.
Main Street at a glance
The freeway and getting around
Interstate 15 runs right behind Main Street
The thing to understand about Sunset is how close the freeway sits. Main Street and Interstate 15 run parallel the whole length of the city, and the gap between them is small, well under a hundred yards. Stand on Main facing east and the interstate is right behind the buildings, not across a field. The city says as much in its own general plan: the history section records that the I-15 corridor, built in the 1960s, required the destruction of the east side of Main Street and changed the character of the city. That is a blunt line for a government document, and it explains why Main Street is built up on the west and nearly empty on the east.
The upside of sitting on that seam is access. Exit 335 at 650 North is Sunset's freeway door, and it puts an address here on I-15 in about a minute from most of the city. The ramps straddle the Sunset and Clearfield line, so a GPS may say Clearfield while the street sign says Sunset, and both are right. From that ramp it is a short run north toward Ogden or south toward Layton, and the rest of the Wasatch Front opens up from there.
There is no train stop in Sunset. The FrontRunner commuter line runs along the western edge of the city without stopping; the nearest stations are Clearfield to the south and Roy just north in Weber County. UTA buses run on Main Street. Route numbers change, so check the current route and stop with UTA for the exact address you are weighing rather than trusting an old list.
For a buyer the honest question is noise, and the answer depends almost entirely on how many streets west of Main an address sits. The residential side of Sunset is only about three-quarters of a mile wide, so nothing here is far from the corridor, but there is a real difference between a house a block off Main and one several streets west. The interstate is a steady sound that does not stop at night the way a city street does. No page can tell you how a specific street sounds; one evening on the sidewalk at the hour you would be home will.
The roads through town
| Road | Route | Vehicles a day | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate 15 | I-15 | About 125,000 | The national corridor, passing through without stopping |
| Main Street | SR-126 | 23,000 to 25,000 | The city's arterial and its commercial frontage |
| 1800 North | SR-37 | About 16,000 | The second state route, running west toward Clinton |
| 800 North | City route | About 7,200 | The busiest of the numbered cross streets |
Vehicle counts are the most recent published state figures and are now a few years old, so read them as the shape of the traffic rather than this year's exact volume. If a traffic number matters to a decision, get a current one before you rely on it.
What comes next
What the city wants Main Street to become
Sunset has written down that it would like Main Street to be more than a road you pass through. Its general plan carries a set of goals for the street: to identify places for focused development including a town center on Main, to add a mixed-use zoning overlay along the corridor, to write a land-use plan for Main Street with sidewalk and building standards, and to improve the street's walkability. There is a related goal to make 1800 North a gathering place.
It is worth being clear about what those are. They are goals in a plan, not projects with a date or a budget. There is no town center on Main today, no overlay, no adopted Main Street plan on the ground. A city whose main street lost half its frontage to a freeway sixty years ago has said it would like to make a center out of what is left, and whether that happens is a question for future council decisions. If anyone tells you a Main Street makeover is coming, treat it as an intention until there is an ordinance and money behind it.
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Quick answers
Main Street and the freeway, answered
Main Street is Sunset's main commercial street and its state route, State Route 126. It runs the length of the city, a little over a mile and a half, and holds nearly all of Sunset's shops and businesses, since the general plan puts most of the city's land in homes. It was part of the old surface highway up the Wasatch Front before Interstate 15 took the through traffic in the 1960s.
It is SR-126. You will sometimes see it written as SR-26, but that is a different road, Riverdale Road, which is up in Weber County near Roy and does not reach Sunset. If a document about a Sunset property names a state route, it means State Route 126.
Exit 335 at 650 North is the city's Interstate 15 interchange, and it puts most of Sunset on the freeway in about a minute. The ramps straddle the Sunset and Clearfield line, so a GPS may name Clearfield while the street sign names Sunset. From there it is a short run north toward Ogden or south toward Layton and the rest of the Wasatch Front.
Very close. The interstate runs parallel to Main Street for the whole length of the city, well under a hundred yards behind its east side. Stand on Main facing east and the freeway is right behind the buildings. The city's own general plan says the freeway's arrival in the 1960s took out the east side of Main Street, which is why the street is built up on the west and nearly empty on the east.
It is a working arterial, posted 40 mph. The most recent published state traffic counts, now a few years old, put Main Street around 23,000 to 25,000 vehicles a day, against roughly 125,000 on Interstate 15 just behind it. Read those as the shape of the traffic rather than this year's exact volume, and check a current count if it matters to a decision.
Main Street carries a thin strip of businesses, but Sunset is a small, mostly residential city and it is not a shopping destination. For a full grocery run or the big-box stores, most of the north county drives a few minutes south into Clearfield or Layton, where the larger retail sits.
No. The FrontRunner commuter rail line runs along the western edge of the city but does not stop in Sunset. The nearest stations are Clearfield to the south and Roy just north in Weber County. UTA buses run on Main Street, and route numbers change, so check the current route and stop with UTA for a specific address.
Not as of now. The city's general plan lists goals for Main Street, including a town center, a mixed-use overlay and a walkability plan, but those are intentions in a document, without a date, a budget or an ordinance behind them. There is no town center on Main today, so treat any talk of a Main Street makeover as a goal rather than a funded project.
Besides Main Street, 1800 North is a state route, SR-37, and it runs west from Main through Clinton and West Point toward Weber County. Two state routes crossing inside a city this small is unusual, and their junction sits near the oldest part of town.
A narrow city with one loud line down the middle
The useful version for a buyer is short. Work out how many streets west of Main a specific address sits, because the residential city is only about three-quarters of a mile wide and nothing here is far from the corridor. Stand on the sidewalk at the hour you would actually be home. Treat the traffic counts as a shape rather than a current figure, and treat the town center in the general plan as an intention rather than a project. Tell me the blocks you are weighing and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who knows them.
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