By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret News FRUIT HEIGHTS -- The Davis County Council of Governments has agreed to purchase three parcels of raw land located in the corridor of the future expansion to the Legacy Parkway.

By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret News SYRACUSE -- Construction on Legacy Parkway may be complete, but local leaders have long dreamed of a connecting highway from Farmington along the western side of Davis County, north to the Weber County border and beyond.

By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret News WOODS CROSS -- You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief as the Legacy Parkway officially opened Saturday.

-- 14 miles long -- $685 million cost -- 55 mph speed limit -- Multiuse trail runs full length of parkway -- Skirts a 2,225-acre nature preserve -- Required 182,845 cubic yards of concrete (c) 2008 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

By Deseret News editorial In his 1998 State of the State address, then-Gov. Michael O. Leavitt urged construction of the Legacy Parkway. To illustrate his point, he told a story about a man named Frank Muir whose job was to log the traffic on a road north of Salt Lake.