Is the New Shepard Lane Interchange in Farmington Open?

Is the new Shepard Lane interchange in Farmington, Utah open? Yes: the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) fully opened the new I-15 interchange at North Station Lane, which replaced the old Shepard Lane overpass, on Monday, June 29, 2026, and the rest of the $151 million project is scheduled to finish by the end of 2026.

I am David Supinger, Principal Broker of Home Click Real Estate, and I live in Farmington. The name changed partway through this project, which confuses a lot of people, so here is what was actually built, in order, with where each fact came from.

Because the old road over I-15 was the Shepard Lane overpass, and the new interchange is being built and described by UDOT as the interchange at North Station Lane. Crews removed the old Shepard Lane bridge in May 2025 to build a wider structure, and the new North Station Lane bridge took its place.

The whole effort is called the Shepard Lane Improved project. So when somebody says "the Shepard Lane interchange" and somebody else says "North Station Lane," they are talking about the same place.

Here is the timeline, from UDOT and from the Standard-Examiner's and Construction Equipment Guide's reporting on the project.

Spring 2024: the project began, funded by state and local sources, with Wadsworth Brothers Construction as the contractor and Horrocks as the designer.

May 2025: the old Shepard Lane bridge over I-15 was removed, and the overpass closed.

November 24, 2025: the new North Station Lane bridge opened with one lane each direction, running as a four-way stop until the signals were turned on.

June 29, 2026: the full interchange opened at 9 a.m., with on-ramps and off-ramps to I-15, two new signalized intersections and more travel lanes.

By the end of 2026: the rest of the project is scheduled to finish. UDOT says its schedules are weather-dependent and subject to change.

Four lanes in each direction, a 10-foot multi-use path on the north side, six-foot sidewalks on the south side and four-foot bike lanes. It is a diamond interchange, and the overpass also crosses the Union Pacific Railroad and Utah Transit Authority tracks.

Construction Equipment Guide describes it as giving direct access to I-15, US-89 and Legacy Parkway, improving east-west travel and linking to the West Davis Corridor. UDOT's own words for the purpose are a more connected Farmington, with safer walking, biking and transit access in an area where many people travel between neighborhoods, businesses and FrontRunner.

The pedestrian work at the Park Lane interchange, south of North Station Lane. That includes multiple pedestrian bridges and an underpass under Park Lane that will connect the Farmington FrontRunner station with Lagoon. Park Lane between I-15 and US-89 was closed from July 7 to July 21, 2026, while crews built the underpass.

There is also a multi-use path at Park Lane that connects the FrontRunner station to destinations east of US-89. All of it is part of the same project, and all of it is scheduled to wrap up by the end of 2026. If Lagoon is the reason you care about the underpass, I covered that side in what is new at Lagoon in 2027.

Before this project, the Shepard Lane overpass carried traffic over I-15 but had no ramps on and off the freeway. Now the north side of town has a full interchange of its own, in addition to Park Lane.

What that is worth to a particular home depends on which way you drive every day, and it is the kind of thing worth checking for yourself rather than taking from a listing description. A buyer who works in Salt Lake and lives near North Station Lane may get on I-15 closer to home now. A buyer who wants a quiet street may care more about how close the home is to the new traffic. Both are fair, and neither is something I would guess at for you.

It is too early to say what, if anything, the interchange does to prices. It only fully opened in June. When I price a Farmington home I compare it with the homes that actually sold near it, and if the new access shows up in those sales, it will show up in the number.

1. Drive from the home to where you go every day, at the hour you would actually make the trip, once using North Station Lane and once using Park Lane. Compare the two.

2. Stand outside the home on a weekday afternoon. Listen. New ramps can change how a street sounds, and that is the kind of thing photographs never show.

3. Check UDOT for remaining closures. Until the project finishes at the end of 2026, the drive you test may still include construction.

4. If you take the train, walk it. The point of the trails and the underpass is to make walking and biking to Farmington Station easier. See whether that is true from the home's front door.

5. Price it against the right homes. The homes near the new interchange are not interchangeable with homes on the other side of the freeway or at the south end of town. Buying a home in Farmington goes through how I compare them.

Describe the access accurately, and let the buyer decide what it is worth to them. A listing that says the home is minutes from a brand new I-15 on-ramp at North Station Lane is a fact. A listing that says traffic is no issue is a promise nobody can keep.

Plan showings around the last of the construction. Until the project wraps up at the end of 2026, a lane closure on the wrong evening can turn a five-minute drive into a bad first impression, so I check UDOT's schedule before I set showing times for a home near the work.

Price it against the homes that actually sold near it, not against a guess about what the interchange should be worth. If the new access is adding value, the sold homes around you will show it. If they don't show it yet, the price shouldn't assume it.

Thinking Shepard Lane and North Station Lane are two different projects. They are one. The old Shepard Lane overpass came down and the North Station Lane interchange replaced it.

Assuming the whole project is done because the interchange is open. The pedestrian work at Park Lane continues until the end of 2026.

Relying on an old map or an old route. If your navigation still treats Shepard Lane as an overpass with no ramps, it is out of date.

Treating freeway access as automatically good or bad for a home. It depends entirely on the household. Test the drive and the noise yourself.

Here is an example, not a client's story. Say you are choosing between a home a few minutes from the new interchange and a home farther south in town, both in your price range. You work in Salt Lake. A year ago the first home meant driving to another interchange to get on I-15. Today it has its own on-ramp. That may be enough to change which home makes more sense for you, or it may not matter at all if you take FrontRunner. The only way to know is to drive both routes at commute time, and I would have you do exactly that before we write an offer on either one.

Is Farmington a good place to live walks through each part of town, and the Farmington area page covers the homes street by street.

Is the Shepard Lane interchange open? Is the Shepard Lane interchange in Farmington open? Yes. The new interchange at North Station Lane fully opened on June 29, 2026.

When will the Shepard Lane project be finished? When will the Shepard Lane Improved project in Farmington be finished? UDOT's target is the end of 2026, weather permitting.

How much did the interchange cost? How much did the Farmington Shepard Lane interchange cost? Construction Equipment Guide reported the project at $151 million, funded by state and local sources.

What does the new interchange connect to? What does the North Station Lane interchange connect to? I-15, with direct access to US-89 and Legacy Parkway, and a link to the West Davis Corridor, according to Construction Equipment Guide.

Does it have a trail? Does the new Farmington interchange have a walking and bike path? Yes. A 10-foot multi-use path on the north side, six-foot sidewalks on the south side and four-foot bike lanes.

David Supinger is the Principal Broker of Home Click Real Estate in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 34 years full time in the business, who has personally sold more than 1,300 homes across Davis and Salt Lake counties. He lives in Farmington and has 171 Farmington sales on record.

If you are deciding between homes in Farmington or Kaysville and the commute is part of it, send me a note with where you drive every day and I will tell you which homes I would test the drive from first.

Sources: UDOT news release, 26 June 2026; Standard-Examiner, 25 November 2025; Construction Equipment Guide, 4 August 2026.