page_title: Utah State Route 56
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Utah State Route 56 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: Utah State Route 56 Between Modena and Cedar City, Utah
context_page_description: State Route 56 is a 61.502-mile-long state highway completely within Iron County in southwestern Utah. SR-56 runs from the Utah/Nevada border to SR-130 in Cedar City.
context_section_description: From its western terminus on the Nevada border near Modena, the route heads northeast until reaching Modena, where it turns southeast. It continues this direction until Newcastle, where it begins heading east and then southeast. After a junction with Pinto Road, it leaves the Harmony Mountains, enters Cedar Valley, then the route heads northeast until entering Cedar City, where it runs east until its eastern terminus.
  The portion of SR-56 from Iron Springs Road west of Cedar City to the eastern terminus at SR-130 is part of the National Highway System.
caption: SR-56 between Modena and Cedar City approaching Iron Mountain
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