---
id: "2016"
name: Bicentennial Highway
distance: "164"
duration: About four hours
description: Completed in 1976 and dubbed the "Bicentennial Highway," this road is the gateway to Natural Bridges National Monument, where erosion has created the world's largest display of natural bridges, formed out of 225 million-year-old Cedar Mesa sandstone. T
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websites:
  - url: https://www.thearmchairexplorer.com/utah/bicentennial-highway.php
    name: The Armchair Explorer
attractions:
  - url: https://www.nps.gov/nabr/index.htm
    name: Natural Bridges National Monument
designations:
  - Utah State Scenic Byway
states:
  - UT
ll:
  - -110.70574999999997
  - 38.373820999999964
bounds:
  - - -110.70574999999997
    - 37.49433099999999
  - - -109.487457
    - 38.373820999999964
books: "978-1426219054"

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Completed in 1976 and dubbed the "Bicentennial Highway", this road is the gateway to Natural Bridges National Monument, where erosion has created the world's largest display of natural bridges, formed out of 225 million-year-old Cedar Mesa sandstone.