1913/07/25 - 2024/03/08
Old
Front Plate Required: Yes
Area Codes: 385, 435, 801
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None
Utah is basically a desert with a mountain range running north to south straight down the middle. License plates are required both front and back. The standard plate is a distinctive orange and blue, but the non-standard Olympic skiing plate is also fairly common.
Topographical map
Orange & blue license plate
Olympic skiing plate
Most highway signs have two or three braces on the back, similar to other mountain/desert states. Utah occasionally uses the rounded 2-prong signpost that is common in Texas. If marked, utility poles have the broad yellow Pacificorp plate.
Braces behind highway sign
Rounded 2-prong signpost
Pacificorp plate
Utah's geography looks similar to that of nearby states, but it has a unique set of bollards. On US highways, guardrail ends are marked by three yellow strips on a black pole, although the yellow can be sun-bleached white. State highways usually use plastic bollards, and is one of the few that has orange bollards These highways will also sometime have a white square mounted on either a black or orange plate.
3 yellow bollard on rail ends
3 yellow bollard sun-bleached
Plastic bollard
Orange bollard
Orange back-plate
Black back-plate
The Salt Lake City metro area runs the length of the lake on the west side of the mountain range. The mountains are relatively taller and sharper on the north side and rounder to the south near Provo and Ogden. The city's area codes are 801 and 385, but they are found state-wide.
801 area code
Larger pointier mtns near Salt Lake City
Smaller rounded mtns near Provo / Ogden
Several sub-cities have unique symbols on street signs, and the whole city has a unique numbering system for streets, using just a number and a direction. The public transit acronmys all start with "UTA".
Salt Lake City road numbering
UTA BUS and UTA TRAX
Nevada and North Dakota also uses orange bollards, but North Dakota only uses them on rail ends.
Rounded 2-prong sign posts can also be found in Texas.
Utah
Rocky Mountain Power division of Pacificorp also serves Wyoming and Idaho.
Pacificorp Plate