Campbell v. Box Elder County

OPINION

BILLINGS, Judge:

Box Elder County appeals a trial court determination that a section of “Ridge Road” owned by the Campbells and their eo-appel-lees, the Barneses and Heatons, was not a public thoroughfare under Utah Code Ann. § 27-12-89 (1995). We affirm.

FACTS

Ridge Road begins on the Campbells’ property and continues many miles over property owned by the other appellees and by the United States Forest Service. Because the land ownership is in a checker board pattern, the road crosses back and forth between private property and Forest Service land. Other public roads cross the Forest…