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cl94:
Our friend Corco was doing some digging in WY highway logs and discovered that WYO 370 was formally realigned in 2017 to run from I-80 to WYO 430, using Middle Baxter Road/CR 45. The segment from Middle Baxter Road east to the airport was decommissioned in 2019.

New alignment in 2017 log (PDF page 157): http://www.dot.state.wy.us/files/live/sites/wydot/files/shared/Maintenance/Maintenance%20Section%20Reference%20Book/2017-MaintenanceSectionReferenceBook.pdf
Decommissioning in 2019 (PDF page 14): http://www.dot.state.wy.us/files/live/sites/wydot/files/shared/Administration/Transportation%20Commission/Meeting%20Minutes/2019/Sept19-%202019.pdf
Map of route: https://goo.gl/maps/b1zsMJPr7ZKLd9rg8

Corco will be out there in a couple of weeks to reclinch it, but it is pretty safe to say that 370 east of Middle Baxter Road no longer exists given the documentation we have.

the_spui_ninja:
Yeah, I remember seeing that in the Sweetwater County GIS (and being confused by it)... I'll switch this over once the signage is confirmed. Would have done this earlier, but the StreetView in that area is really old and kind of orange and I don't have any plans to head to Rock Springs for the forseeable future to check for myself.

cl94:
We should have an answer for this within the next few months. Definitely not a high-priority item, but it's on Corco's re-clinch list for when he next gets to Wyoming (possibly as soon as next week). Duke87 should be through the area on I-80 within the next week, so we might be able to get him to confirm sooner.

the_spui_ninja:
Okay, I just checked StreetView again, and they updated it. As of June 2019, the only signage on the "new" stretch of WY 370 was... Sweetwater County 45. There were even WYDOT mileposts too!

There was no signage for 370 on the spur to the airport that I could see, but it was still state-maintained at that point (wide shoulders, speed limit 70).

Hopefully when someone goes through the signage has been updated.

cl94:
Here's the conditions on the ground per Duke87:

-The new stretch is signed as CR 45, even though it is inventoried and mileposted as WY 370 and built to WYDOT standards
-The now-decommissioned section remains signed as WY 370, even though it has been fully handed over to Sweetwater County

This makes it a bit tricky. Isn't the precedent here to remove the part that we know has been decommissioned, even if it is still "signed" as a state route (if only because shields haven't been removed)? In that case, this would be a truncation to the CR 45 intersection. That may make the most sense here, given that the airport spur no longer exists on paper. Per Corco, there is no precedent for a locally-maintained state route in Wyoming- everything that is officially a route is maintained by WYDOT.

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