The corridor Taylorsville
There are no redwoods in this valley, and there is a reason
The Redwood Road spine, and the stakes it is named after
Surveyors marking a line down the west side of the Jordan River used redwood stakes because they did not rot in the ground, and the line they marked became the road. It was built in 1895, rebuilt in concrete in the 1920s, numbered SR-68 in 1943 and widened to six lanes before the 2002 Olympics. Today it carries a college campus whose loop road is a state highway in its own right, a 5,000 seat arena, and a bus line that replaced an interurban abandoned generations ago.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
Redwood Road is the state highway that runs straight down the middle of Taylorsville, and it is named for the wooden stakes that marked the line it follows. Surveyors laying a line down the west side of the Jordan River used redwood because it did not rot once driven into wet ground, the line became the Redwood Line, and the road built along it in 1895 kept the name. There are no redwoods in the Salt Lake Valley and there never were. Today it is SR-68, owned and maintained by UDOT, and along it sit Salt Lake Community College's flagship campus, a 5,000 seat arena, and a campus loop road that is a numbered state highway in its own right. If you are weighing a home near it, the honest point is that it is a busy six lane arterial, so the block you land on and the cross street you sit near matter more than the line on a map.
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Along the road
What sits on the corridor, from I-215 south
Read the corridor from the belt route south and it stacks up more than a suburban arterial usually does. Salt Lake Community College's flagship campus, the Taylorsville Redwood Campus, fronts the road near 4600 South and is the largest single thing on it. Its perimeter road is not an ordinary campus drive: it is SR-292, a numbered state highway of 1.718 miles designated in 1969, one of a small family of short Utah routes that carry state maintenance onto the grounds of a state institution. Three of its outlets feed onto Redwood Road and one onto 2200 West.
The practical catch is that a routing app treats that campus loop as a highway, because it is one, so it will send you onto it confidently and can leave you at an entrance nowhere near the building you wanted. On the loop stands Bruin Arena, the 5,000 seat arena inside SLCC's Lifetime Activities Center, opened in 1996. It is home to the SLCC Bruins, and every late winter it hosts the closing rounds of Utah's high school girls basketball championships, so if the arena parking is full on a February Saturday, that is why.
Further south the road passes Taylorsville Park at 4721 South, a compact city park of just under seven acres with a skate park at its south end, which is the corridor's one easy place to stop for an hour. The junction at 4800 South looks like an ordinary crossroads now, but it was this community's business district in the 1890s, anchored by a store that grew into the Taylorsville Mercantile. And where 5400 South crosses, you meet Utah's first flex lane system, opened in 2012, where overhead signals hand extra lanes to the peak direction. It is worth knowing the first time you drive it at rush hour.
The details
A community college loop road being its own state highway is not a filing error. SR-292 is a four part route of 1.718 miles, designated in 1969, made up of the perimeter road around the SLCC Redwood Campus, with three outlets onto Redwood Road and one onto 2200 West. Utah keeps a small family of these short numbered routes so the state can maintain the ground at its own institutions. For a driver it means the campus loop shows up on a map as a highway, so a phone can route you onto it and leave you at the wrong entrance. Give yourself a minute to find the right building.
Transit on the corridor
This corridor had electric transit a hundred and thirteen years before it got it back
In 1913 an electric interurban ran beside this road. The Salt Lake and Utah Railroad, known as the Orem Line, was built parallel to Redwood Road at about 1800 West with a station at Bennion, and from it you could ride north into Salt Lake City or south as far as Payson. Then it went, the way nearly every interurban in the country went, and for most of a century the corridor's only transit was a bus on a state highway. The city that grew up here was built entirely inside that gap.
It came back on 12 April 2026, as a bus rather than a train. UTA's Midvalley Express, Route 50X, runs between West Valley Central and Murray Central through Taylorsville, with fifteen stations, seven of them inside the city plus a stop on the college campus, and it covers the route in about half an hour. It has been zero fare since it opened and is set to stay that way through April 2029. There is still no rail station inside the city, which is the honest framing; what the line does is tie the corridor to TRAX and FrontRunner at Murray on one end and to more of the west side at West Valley on the other. Check current times and fares with UTA before you build a car free routine around it.
The part that belongs on a corridor page rather than a transit schedule is the art. UTA, the city and the college commissioned custom glass panel artwork for seven Taylorsville stations and the campus roundabout, fifteen pieces in all, by named artists. Three of them take their subject from the Jordan River on the city's other edge: Jordan River Moonrise by Caro Nilsson, Birds of the Jordan River by Chuck Landvatter and All the Fish by Stephanie Swift. That is an unusual amount of commissioned work for a bus line, and a real reason to look up while you wait.
An interurban ran beside this road in 1913 and nothing replaced it until 2026, which is a long time for a corridor to hold its breath.
The road today
UDOT owns this road, and it just rebuilt the north end
Redwood Road is SR-68, which means UDOT owns and maintains it, not the city, so anything that happens to the road is a state decision. The most recent big change is finished. Between 2023 and 2024 UDOT rebuilt the stretch from 6200 South up to the I-215 interchange: it added a northbound travel lane in the direction of the freeway and the campus, where the morning demand runs; it rebuilt the 6200 South intersection with a partial continuous flow design, which lets left turning and through traffic move at the same time; and it put two on-ramp lanes onto I-215 in each direction where there had been one. If you drove this stretch a few years ago and it feels different now, that is why.
It is easy to mix that up with the work on Bangerter Highway, because both run through Taylorsville, so it is worth keeping straight. Redwood Road is the state highway down the middle of the city. Bangerter Highway runs along the city's western shoulder and has been on a separate, long running conversion from a stoplight arterial into a free flowing freeway; the most recent four interchanges opened in November 2025, leaving Bangerter stoplight free from I-15 in Draper up to 4100 South. Two different roads, two different programs. And neither of them is the Mountain View Corridor, which is a third highway further west again.
The 6200 South junction now runs as a partial continuous flow intersection. If you are turning left there and the signal walks you across to the far side of oncoming traffic before you make the turn, that is the design working, not a wrong turn. It lets left turning and through traffic clear at once, which moves the intersection faster but takes a drive or two to feel normal. Because Redwood Road is a state highway, check UDOT for anything current before you plan a tight journey time.
Off the corridor
What sits either side of the line
Redwood Road is the middle of the city. The county's big recreation campus sits a corridor west of it, the Jordan River runs about a mile east, and downtown is a straight shot north.
West of it
Valley Regional Park
Ninety odd county acres on 2700 West, with a pool, a library and a recreation center on them.
The park pageEast of it
The Jordan River trail system
The water on the far boundary, four landlords, and a creek arriving from 11,500 feet.
The river pageNorth of it
Downtown Salt Lake
The center nine or ten miles up the valley, and what a single leg drive reaches there.
Read the guideLiving on it
A mid valley address
What being equidistant from everything actually asks of a household here, in practice.
Moving hereKeep reading
More of Taylorsville on The Local
Things to do
The top 7, ranked
A county theater, a 5,000 seat arena, a confluence and a farmhouse from 1906.
Read the guideThe river
The Jordan River trail system
The city that publishes the whole trail instead of its own slice of it.
Read the guideThe park
Valley Regional Park
Ninety one acres, eighteen disc golf baskets, a pool and a library on one lawn.
Read the guideThe festival
Taylorsville Dayzz
Three days, two z's, and a 5K where some runners carry thirty pounds.
Read the guideMoving here
A mid valley address
Equidistant from everything, and landlord to almost none of its own landmarks.
Read the guideThe companion
Taylorsville, the whole picture
The theater, the river system, the county park, the festival and the corridor, together.
Read the pageQuick answers
The corridor, answered
Because of the survey stakes. Surveyors running a line down the west side of the Jordan River needed markers that would not rot once driven into wet ground, so they used redwood. The line became the Redwood Line, and when a road was built along it in 1895 as the main route for the west side of Salt Lake County, it took the name. There are no redwoods in the Salt Lake Valley and there never were.
Yes. SR-68 was routed onto Redwood Road in 1943, so the road is owned and maintained by UDOT rather than by the cities it runs through. It was rebuilt in concrete in the 1920s and widened to six travel lanes with a center turn lane before the 2002 Winter Olympics. Because it is a state highway, what happens to the road is a UDOT decision.
It is the loop road around the Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus, and it is a numbered state highway in its own right: a 1.718 mile, four part route designated in 1969, with three outlets onto Redwood Road and one onto 2200 West. Utah keeps a small family of these short routes so the state can maintain the ground at its own institutions. For a driver it means a routing app treats the campus loop as a highway and can drop you at the wrong entrance.
Yes, and it seats five thousand. Bruin Arena is the 5,000 seat arena inside SLCC's Lifetime Activities Center on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus, opened in 1996 and owned by the college. It is home to the SLCC Bruins, it hosts the closing rounds of Utah's high school girls basketball championships each late winter, and the building also holds a fitness center, a weight room and teaching space.
It had an electric interurban. The Salt Lake and Utah Railroad, known as the Orem Line, was built in 1913 and ran parallel to Redwood Road at about 1800 West with a station at Bennion, carrying passengers north into Salt Lake City and south as far as Payson. It is long gone, and nothing replaced it until UTA's Midvalley Express bus rapid transit line opened on 12 April 2026. There is still no rail station inside the city.
It serves the campus on Redwood Road rather than running the length of the road. Route 50X links West Valley Central and Murray Central with fifteen stations, seven of them inside Taylorsville plus a stop at the SLCC Taylorsville Redwood Campus, and it covers the route in about half an hour. It has been zero fare since it opened on 12 April 2026 and is set to stay that way through April 2029. Check current times and fares with UTA before you plan around it.
Fifteen custom glass panel pieces, commissioned by UTA with the city and the college for seven Taylorsville stations and the campus roundabout. The artists and titles are named, and three of the works take their subject from the Jordan River on the city's other edge: Jordan River Moonrise by Caro Nilsson, Birds of the Jordan River by Chuck Landvatter and All the Fish by Stephanie Swift. It is an unusual amount of commissioned work for a bus line.
The most recent big project rebuilt the stretch from 6200 South to I-215 and finished in 2024. It added a northbound travel lane toward the freeway and the campus, rebuilt the 6200 South intersection as a partial continuous flow design so left turning and through traffic move at once, and put dual on-ramp lanes onto I-215 in each direction. Because Redwood Road is a state highway, check UDOT for anything current before you plan a tight journey time.
No, and mixing them up is easy because both run through Taylorsville. Redwood Road is SR-68 through the middle of the city, and its most recent rebuild was the stretch from 6200 South to I-215. Bangerter Highway runs along the city's western shoulder and is a separate, longer conversion to free flowing interchanges, whose most recent four opened in November 2025, leaving it stoplight free from I-15 in Draper up to 4100 South. Neither is the Mountain View Corridor, which is a third road further west.
One road, and most of the city hangs off it
Six lanes of state highway through the middle of a settled suburb make for very different addresses a single block apart, and this is also the corridor carrying the college, the arena and the busiest junction in the city. Frontage, setback and which cross street you sit on decide more here than any listing photo will show. Tell me the cross streets you are weighing and a Salt Lake County partner agent I trust will walk them at the hours that count, while I keep an eye on the numbers and the lending side.
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