The
Utah State Road Commission took over maintenance of
State Route 69 from Brigham City via Collinston to
Logan on May 12, 1931. The route began at the present
SR-13 - then
US-30S - in Brigham City, and ran north on the east side of the valley to Collinston. There it turned east over
Beaver Dam Summit to the north of the Wellsville Mountains, and crossed the
Cache Valley to
US-91 in Logan. This remained the route of SR-69 until the
1977 renumbering, though in 1966
SR-30 became the "state signed guide number" northeast of the junction with
SR-102 in
Deweyville, in order to provide a continuous signed route across the northern counties of Utah. On May 20, 1977, the portion that had been signed as SR-30 since 1966 was officially renumbered as part of SR-30, truncating SR-69 to a Brigham City (SR-13) to Deweyville (SR-30) highway. The
Department of Transportation passed a resolution on March 24, 1989, recommending that the
State Legislature modify SR-30 to run west from Collinston to the under-construction
I-15, partially restoring the portion of SR-69 that had been eliminated in 1977. The Legislature approved the change in 1991, after this part of I-15 - the last Interstate section in Utah - opened on November 20, 1990. In 1993, the director of UDOT's District One, which included SR-69, requested a renumbering, due to problems with
sign theft: "The SR-69 route signs have become a collectors' item for a large number of individuals, resulting in a large expense for us in replacing the signs. We suspect it is
college students that are taking most of the signs, as there is a very significant loss in SR-69 sign panels during the college school year. We lose approximately 35 sign panels each year from this route. Often, the post is also damaged - requiring replacement. We do not experience losses anywhere close to this magnitude on any other route." The
Utah Transportation Commission approved the request, changing the number from 69 to 38 (which had been unused since 1975) on October 15, 1993; No changes of any significance have been made since then. ==Major intersections==