The highway West Point
The state highway that opened in 2024 and runs up the west side of the county to West Point
The West Davis Highway, and the town at the north end of it
SR-177, the West Davis Highway, opened in 2024. It runs about sixteen miles up the west side of Davis County from Farmington and ends at West Point, meeting the town at the SR-193 junction on its southern edge. For a farm town that had no highway of its own two years ago, that is a different kind of address. Here is what the road is, what it changed for West Point, and where it stops.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
The West Davis Highway is a state road, numbered SR-177, that opened in 2024 and runs about sixteen miles up the west side of Davis County. It starts down at Farmington, carries two lanes in each direction, and ends at West Point, meeting the town at the SR-193 junction on its southern edge. That is the whole of it: an open highway from Farmington to West Point, with West Point at the north end. The road does not carry on north past that junction. What it changed for the town is access. Until 2024 the west side of the county was reached from the south on a chain of ordinary surface streets. Now a state highway runs straight up to West Point's edge, which is a real change for a place that had no highway of its own before.
What changed
What an open highway changed for a town that never had one
Before 2024 the way into West Point from the rest of the valley came off Interstate 15 and up through Layton, Clearfield and Syracuse on a chain of surface arterials. The West Davis Highway changed that. It runs up the west edge of the county on its own alignment and reaches West Point from the south, so the town now sits at the end of a state highway instead of at the end of a string of city streets. That is the plain difference the road made,
The west side of West Point is also the town's newer ground. The older part of the city, the farm grid with its wide lots and missing sidewalks, sits toward the middle and the east; the subdivisions nearest the highway's approach are largely recent construction on what was field a decade ago. The road did not create that pattern, but it gave the newest edge of a farm town a fast way south to work in Layton, Ogden and Salt Lake, which is a genuine change in how this side of the city connects to the rest of the region.
It is worth being straight about scale, too. West Point is a town of about eleven thousand, and a state highway running to its edge is a large piece of infrastructure for a place this size. The road does not run through the middle of town; it comes up the west county and meets West Point at its southern corner, so most of the city still lives on ordinary streets and reaches the highway the way it reaches any arterial, by driving to it.
The road, in plain terms
Getting around
Five state routes, one bus route, and a commute you plan around
The highway is the newest of West Point's roads, not the only one. By the city's own count five state routes cross the town: SR-193, SR-110, SR-108, SR-37 and the West Davis Highway as SR-177. That is a lot of state road for a place this size, and it comes from where West Point sits, at the west end of a county whose east side is taken up by an interstate, an air force base and a rail line.
Public transportation is thinner. One bus serves the city, UTA Route 626, which starts at the Clearfield commuter rail station, runs through West Point on 2000 West, and ends in Hooper over the Weber County line. There is no train stop inside the city itself, so reaching the commuter rail means driving to Clearfield or taking the one bus to it.
The city's own travel figures show what that adds up to. The average commute is about 23.4 minutes, and the great majority of residents drive, most of them alone. Transit carries well under one percent of the city's commuters, which is about what a single bus route across a farm-edge town tends to look like. A household here plans on a car, and the West Davis Highway is the fastest road that car now has heading south.
The details
The city's plan
What the city has written down for the ground by the highway
The city has set down what it would like the highway to bring, and it is worth keeping straight from what exists. West Point's adopted general plan names the West Davis corridor among its commercial priority corridors and points to the northwest corner of SR-108 and SR-193 as ground it would like to see turn commercial, calling the farmland there a prime opportunity. That is municipal policy in an adopted document.
It is policy, not a project. Nothing at the junction is built to it, and a priority corridor named in a general plan is a long way from a store. Whether any of that farm ground becomes shops is a question of years and developers. The road itself is the settled part, and it is the access described above. The rest is the city's stated intention, and it sits alongside the water rule and the zoning that shape how West Point turns fields into subdivisions, which is the subject of the page on how West Point plans to grow.
If you live here
What the highway means for a home in West Point
For anyone weighing a move to West Point, the highway is a plus with a caveat. The plus is real: an open state road up the west side of the county puts Layton, Ogden and the run to Salt Lake closer than a farm town usually gets. The caveat is the ordinary one for any home near a highway, which is distance. A house a few blocks off the alignment lives with the road as a convenience; a house right on it lives with the traffic too, and that is worth hearing for yourself before an offer rather than after.
The west edge of town, nearest the highway's approach, is also where the newest houses are, on ground that was farmland not long ago. That is worth knowing going in, because the character of a West Point street depends a good deal on when it was built. The older grid toward the middle of town is wide lots and few sidewalks; the newer subdivisions on the west are denser and more recent. Neither is better or worse, they are simply different addresses, and the highway sits closest to the newer one.
The practical move is cheap. Look at how far an address is from the highway and from the SR-193 junction, and drive the street at a normal weekday hour to hear what it is actually like. The paved path that runs up the same west side of town is covered on the trail page, the thirty foot step that decides which ground drains is on the page about Schneiter's Bluff, and the water rule that turns fields into subdivisions is on the page on moving here.
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The rest of West Point on The Local
The trail
The Old Emigration Trail
Two and a half city miles of a wagon road, the paved path up West Point's west side.
Read the guideThe landform
Schneiter's Bluff
A thirty foot step decides which ground drains and which district bills the water.
Read the guideThe parks
Loy Blake Park
Twenty six acres, 298 parking spaces, and a memorial dedicated one November day.
Read the guideThe Fourth
Party at the Point
A parade, four tournaments, a baby contest and a scramble the morning before.
Read the guideMoving here
The last farm ground
No field here develops until its irrigation water is signed over to the city.
Read the guideThe whole set
West Point, in full
A farm town with a published plan to triple, and the ordinance that opens the gate.
Open the companionQuick answers
The corridor, answered
It is a state highway, numbered SR-177, that opened in 2024 and runs about sixteen miles up the west side of Davis County. It carries two lanes in each direction, starts at Farmington in the south, and ends at West Point in the north. People also call it the West Davis Corridor.
In 2024. Before that, West Point and the other west-side towns were reached from the south on ordinary surface streets, so a through highway up this edge of the county is a recent thing rather than an old one.
It runs north from Farmington for about sixteen miles and ends at SR-193, on the south edge of West Point. West Point is the town at the north end of the road. Everything south of it, down to Farmington and Interstate 15, is what the highway connects to.
At the SR-193 junction, on the south edge of town. That junction is where West Point gets onto the highway, and it is as far north as the road runs. The rest of West Point sits above it, on the grid of city streets.
No. The built highway ends at West Point. A further stretch of road north of the junction is not built, so what runs today is the sixteen miles from Farmington up to the town, and nothing beyond it.
Access, mostly. The town's whole west side used to be reached from Farmington and Interstate 15 by a chain of surface arterials. Now a state highway runs straight up the county to West Point's southern edge, which is a different kind of address for a farm town that had no highway of its own two years ago.
Five, by the city's own count: SR-193, SR-110, SR-108, SR-37 and the West Davis Highway as SR-177. That is a lot of state road for a town this size, and it comes from sitting at the west end of a county whose east side is filled by an interstate, an air force base and a rail line.
One route. UTA Route 626 is the only bus that serves the city; it starts at the Clearfield commuter rail station, runs through West Point along 2000 West, and ends in Hooper, in Weber County. There is no rail stop inside the city itself.
The city's General Plan puts the average commute at about 23.4 minutes, with most residents driving alone. A household here plans on a car: transit carries well under one percent of the city's commuters, which is what a single bus route across a farm-edge town tends to look like.
A highway that ends here, and a town still deciding what that means
The West Davis Highway gave West Point something it did not have two years ago: an open state road up the west side of the county to its edge. What that is worth to any one address comes down to distance from the road and which kind of West Point street you are on, the older farm grid or the newer west side. Tell me which streets you are weighing and I will connect you with a Davis County partner agent who knows them, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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