An unpaved highway connects the province with the city of Santa Cruz to the west and Brazil to the east.
Transportation is possible via paved and unpaved highways.
"When we moved here 40 years ago that was an unpaved highway," said Margaret Thomas, 84, one May afternoon, nodding toward Lawyers Road.
Almost as he spoke the unpaved highway turned, and there was the bridge.
We left his house and walked in silence through the town to the unpaved highway.
Soon they were in a simple race on the frozen, unpaved highway.
When all the trucks were full, they snaked out along an unpaved highway to the west.
The last segment of unpaved highway was paved in late 1945 or early 1946.
The roads, officially designated as "highways that serve a compelling statewide public safety interest," thus became the only unpaved highways in Utah.
As an interim measure, the unpaved highway was opened during the summer of 1941.