Since I've found myself with a little bit more extra time than usual, I've decided to start a blog about Utah highways. I plan on covering historic alignments, current routes, future construction, and really anything else road-related in the state that people might be interested in:
https://uthighways.blogspot.com/
That's pretty cool to see something Utah centered pop up. We have a bunch of southern Utah related highway articles on our blog. You looking for any co-contributers or partnering with another blog site?
Would be nice if the Blogger based lightbox included the captions for the images. Makes it hard to follow the articles when you get the whole slideshow and no context.
Quote from: Alex on April 10, 2020, 08:16:47 AM
Would be nice if the Blogger based lightbox included the captions for the images. Makes it hard to follow the articles when you get the whole slideshow and no context.
The maximum image size is fairly generous too at 250kb which would make that a cool feature to have.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on April 09, 2020, 10:30:07 PM
That's pretty cool to see something Utah centered pop up. We have a bunch of southern Utah related highway articles on our blog. You looking for any co-contributers or partnering with another blog site?
I hadn't actually thought about that. Not in my plans as of now but if it ever comes up I'll definitely let you know.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on April 10, 2020, 10:34:58 AM
Quote from: Alex on April 10, 2020, 08:16:47 AM
Would be nice if the Blogger based lightbox included the captions for the images. Makes it hard to follow the articles when you get the whole slideshow and no context.
The maximum image size is fairly generous too at 250kb which would make that a cool feature to have.
I'd like to make the images bigger in the post itself to reduce the need to even use the lightbox, but the white background on the post doesn't change size - so the images run over into the darker background, which is annoying and also can make them harder to see. To be honest I don’t like the lightbox all that much because you can't zoom in without moving to the next image. A lot of the images I use are maps, and some of those have quite a bit of interesting detail that can only be seen at higher zoom levels.
I've found as of late that I have to use a close snip to get the image clarity on maps that I want. The trouble is that I can't caption the maps which means I really have to be descriptive in the narrative of the article which I find kind of obtuse. Doug uses the format differently than I do and it does a pretty good job at convey what you want as a caption in the scrolling narrative.
I’ve gone ahead and created a route log listing out every state route that’s ever existed in Utah:
https://uthighways.blogspot.com/p/route-log-1-150.html
https://uthighways.blogspot.com/p/route-log-151-901.html
Sure, you could get largely the same list on Wikipedia, but where’s the fun in that? Actually, this log is intended to be an index to help you find any posts I’ve made about a given route - and also to help me identify what I should post about next.
If you haven't been keeping up, here are the links to what I've discussed in the past month or so:
- Scenic Byway 12: An All-American Road (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/03/scenic-byway-12-all-american-road.html)
- Highways of the Eastern Rush and Cedar Valleys (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/03/highways-of-eastern-rush-and-cedar.html)
- Midway area routes (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/04/midway-area-routes.html)
- Antelope Island area highways (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/04/antelope-island-area-highways.html)
- Point of the Mountain (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/04/point-of-mountain.html)
- Skull Valley: SR 196, 900, and 901 (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/04/skull-valley-sr-196-900-and-901.html)
- Hill Air Force Base - Part 1 (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/05/hill-air-force-base-part-1.html), Part 2 (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/05/hill-air-force-base-part-2.html), Part 3 (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/05/hill-air-force-base-part-3.html)
- The Highways of Helper (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-highways-of-helper.html)
We've added a link to your blog over on the gn.org site.
Good Luck and Keep up the good work!
--Adam
I feel like I haven't been posting nearly as much lately, but here's what I've come up with over the past two months:
Tremonton and Garland (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/05/tremonton-and-garland.html)
Northern Sevier Desert (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/05/northern-sevier-desert.html)
The Lund Highway (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/05/lund-highway.html)
State Route 45: A Long Spur to Nowhere (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/06/state-route-45-long-spur-to-nowhere.html)
SR 48 and 209 (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/06/sr-48-and-209.html)
Wasatch County Spurs (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/06/wasatch-county-spurs.html)
Highways West of St. George (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/07/highways-west-of-st-george.html)
It's been a couple months, but you can read up on Provo Canyon's highways here:
https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/11/provo-canyon.html
if we didn't have to worry about finding jobs we'd live in Utah
At long last, I've finally finished a new post. I've also written a handful of other posts over the past 7 months that I never mentioned in this thread, so here you go:
- SR 132: The US Highway that Wasn't (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/12/sr-132-us-highway-that-wasnt.html)
- Eastern Sevier Valley (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/12/eastern-sevier-valley.html)
- SR 21: West Desert to Tushar Mountains (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/12/sr-21-153-and-nearby-spurs.html)
- State Route 65: Emigration and East Canyons (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2020/12/state-route-65-emigration-and-east.html)
- Crossing the Southern Tushars (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2021/02/crossing-southern-tushars.html)
- SR 71 and 111 (https://uthighways.blogspot.com/2021/06/utah-71-and-111.html)