Utah Snow Plow Tracker and Road Conditions

Q: Where can I see where the plows are in Utah?

UDOT calls it Snow Plows, and it runs at https://www.udottraffic.utah.gov/map. UDOT describes it this way: "Select a plow to show recently plowed path. To see the time when a vehicle was at a location, hover your mouse over the vehicle breadcrumb trail."

Q: How do I report a road problem in Utah?

UDOT takes reports at https://connect.udot.utah.gov/public/contact-udot/click-n-fix/. The travel information line is 511.

Trucks on the map

What the state publishes

Live truck positions

UDOT Traffic

The map

UDOT, Utah Department of Transportation

4

Words on the map

each one defined by the state

1,200

Roadside cameras

on the same map, pointed at the road itself

The answer

Where the plows are in Utah

Trucks on the map

UDOT publishes where its plows are and when a plow last came past on UDOT Traffic.

A reader can see which roads have a truck on them right now. Whether one has already been past is a separate question the layer may or may not answer.

What the state calls it: Snow Plows
Where it lives: UDOT Traffic
Shows a last pass: Yes. The layer records when a truck was last down a road, not only where one is now.
Trucks in the fleet: 567
By phone: 511

Open Snow Plows

UDOT describes it in its own words, from Map, Snow Plows layer help text, UDOT Traffic, Utah Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026.

Select a plow to show recently plowed path. To see the time when a vehicle was at a location, hover your mouse over the vehicle breadcrumb trail.

Map, Snow Plows layer help text, UDOT Traffic, Utah Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

The map

What UDOT Traffic shows

UDOT Traffic carries 1200 traffic cameras, a phone app called UDOT Traffic App and a phone line at 511. UDOT describes it this way: "UDOT provides information about statewide road conditions on the UDOT Traffic website and mobile app which supplies access to over 1,200 cameras, 200 message boards, and in-road and roadside sensors."

Conditions on any state map are reported rather than measured. A plow operator or a trooper enters what they saw, and the map carries it until somebody enters something else, so a colour is a description of the road a while ago on the stretch the person was looking at.

Utah puts both things on one map: UDOT Traffic carries a Snow Plows layer where selecting a truck draws the path it has just plowed with a time on every breadcrumb, alongside a winter road conditions layer coloured Unknown, Low, Moderate or High.

The map: UDOT Traffic
Cameras: 1,200 roadside cameras
Phone app: UDOT Traffic App
Phone line: 511

UDOT Traffic, Utah Department of Transportation

UDOT provides information about statewide road conditions on the UDOT Traffic website and mobile app which supplies access to over 1,200 cameras, 200 message boards, and in-road and roadside sensors.

About UDOT Traffic, Utah Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

The words

What Utah calls each state of a road

UDOT runs 4 steps on UDOT Traffic, from Unknown to High. UDOT publishes a definition beside them.

These are Utah’s words and they stop at the state line. There is no national scale: the 33 states that publish a legend use 166 different labels between them, and only 17 publish what their own labels mean. A phrase that means one thing here means something else, or nothing, one state over.

UDOT’s own labels, in the order UDOT lists them. The second column is the state’s own definition.
What the map says	What UDOT says it means
Unknown	Not defined
Low	Weather Impact on Travel: Minimal
Moderate	Weather Impact on Travel: Minor/intermittent weather related road concerns anticipated.
High	Weather Impact on Travel: Travel expected to be impaired. Be prepared for hazardous road conditions.

Read from UDOT’s own legend on September 23, 2026.

When a road shuts

Who closes a road in Utah

UDOT designates Class I and Class II Traction Segments by administrative rule, and UDOT, the Utah Highway Patrol or a designated local law enforcement agency decides when conditions warrant keeping vehicles without traction devices off those segments.

When road surface conditions warrant, as determined by UDOT, UHP or designated local law enforcement agency, no vehicle will be allowed or permitted the use of the highway unless:

About UDOT Traffic, Utah Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

A closure is a different thing from a bad condition, and it is the one entry on the map that carries the force of law behind it. Driving past a closure device is an offence in most states and a rescue bill in several. The map is where the closure is published, and the state also takes reports of conditions from the public.

A red and white striped gate padlocked shut across a two lane forest highway with a ROAD CLOSED sign at its centre, photographed at road level along the wet double yellow line — A seasonal gate shut across a state highway, with no snow on the ground yet. Closures like this one go on by the calendar rather than by the storm, and a driver who checks the map in November finds the road already gone. That is the quietest and most useful thing these maps do, and it happens weeks before anybody looks for a plow. “The gates are closed (49097728041)”, Oregon Department of Transportation, CC BY 2.0

Utah snow plow tracker questions

Does Utah have a snow plow tracker?

Where can I see where the plows are in Utah?

What is UDOT Traffic?

UDOT Traffic is Utah Department of Transportation's own travel information service. UDOT Traffic carries 1200 traffic cameras, a phone app called UDOT Traffic App and a phone line at 511. UDOT describes it this way: "UDOT provides information about statewide road conditions on the UDOT Traffic website and mobile app which supplies access to over 1,200 cameras, 200 message boards, and in-road and roadside sensors."

What do the road condition colours mean in Utah?

Who closes a road in Utah?

UDOT designates Class I and Class II Traction Segments by administrative rule, and UDOT, the Utah Highway Patrol or a designated local law enforcement agency decides when conditions warrant keeping vehicles without traction devices off those segments. UDOT puts it this way: "When road surface conditions warrant, as determined by UDOT, UHP or designated local law enforcement agency, no vehicle will be allowed or permitted the use of the highway unless:"

How do I report a road problem in Utah?

A plow truck seen from behind in heavy snowfall casting a wide plume of snow off the left shoulder of an interstate, with one dark treated lane running away to the right — The same event from behind: the truck throwing its wing load onto the shoulder, and beside it the dark strip of lane it has already been down. That contrast between the wet black lane and the white one is the physical thing a road map is reporting when it changes a segment from snow covered to wet, and it is why the colour on the map can be right and the road can still be slick. “Snowplow on Interstate 5 in Everett, Washington”, SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0

Plow trackers in other states

Utah studded tire datesWhen studs are legal on Utah roads, and the penalty when they are not.Mountain pass conditionsThe passes that close, and what each state posts when they do.Studded tire laws by stateThe dates studs are legal, state by state.Lake effect snowWhere the bands set up and what they do to a commute.Plow trackers in every stateWhich states show the trucks, which show only the roads, and what their legends say.

Utah read September 23, 2026 from About UDOT Traffic, Utah Department of Transportation, linked above. Departments replace these services between seasons and a layer that ran last winter may not run this one, so UDOT’s own page is the one that governs. Conditions shown on it are reported by people and lag the road. Every state is on the snow plow tracker hub.