Idaho State Highway 38


State Highway 38 is a state highway that spans east-west in Oneida County in the southeast Idaho, United States from Holbrook east to Interstate 15 in Malad City.

Route description

SH-38 begins at an intersection with North Holbrook Road and Stone Road in Holbrook. From its western terminus, SH-38 heads east through a rural area between sections of the Curlew National Grassland. It takes a more crooked route east outside of Holbrook, intersecting Arbon Valley Road. From here, the highway enters mountainous terrain, passing Holbrook Summit at an elevation of. After passing through the mountains, SH-38 enters a rural area and passes through the community of Pleasantview. The highway turns northeast toward Malad City, passing the Malad City Airport. After entering Malad City, the route turns eastward, passing through a mixed residential and business district. SH-38 leaves the Malad City limits before reaching its eastern terminus at Exit 13 of I-15. Immediately beyond I-15 is the road which was formerly U.S. Route 191.

History

Between 1927 and 1937, the SH-38 designation was assigned to a route that began in Roy and headed east and then northeast to Arbon, north to Pauline and then north to Crystal, and on to terminate in at the former routing of US-91 in Portneuf.
The route which is now SH-38 was marked as part of former routing of SH-33 by 1927. Between 1927 and 1937, SH-33 was changed to SH-37. By 1956, the southern terminus of SH-38 had changed from SH-37 in Roy to SH-37 east of Holbrook Eventually, the routing of SH-38 was changed to its current route, with the roads through Buist, Arbon, and Crystal to Portneuf being entirely removed from the state highway system.

Major intersections