Airport transfer from The Avenues to SLC, reserved a block at a time

Numbered avenues crossed by lettered streets

Almost every address in Salt Lake County is a coordinate on one grid, counted from Main Street and South Temple Street downtown. The Avenues keep their own names on top of it. Streets running east and west are numbered avenues, 1st Avenue, 2nd Avenue and so on, and the streets crossing them carry letters, like E Street at this corner. Blocks here are about half the usual size, so an avenue name does not show its grid number at a glance.

When a home address uses an avenue or a lettered street in place of a grid number, there is nothing to convert. The office reads the avenue and the letter, places the house on the county grid itself, and uses that point to choose the car company. In the request form, type the address the way it appears on your mail:

• the house number with the avenue or lettered street, spelled out in full
• the nearest crossing street, such as E Street or 3rd Avenue
• the ZIP code and any apartment or unit number

Where 3rd and E lands as a coordinate

Ask a neighbor where this corner is and you will hear 3rd Avenue and E Street. On the county grid the same spot sits near 140 North and 480 East: 140 numbers north of the base line along South Temple Street, and 480 numbers east of the meridian along Main Street. That pair is what the small chart beside this text marks, and it is where the road miles on this page begin.

A house nearby reads the same way. A home a short walk east of E Street on 3rd Avenue stands a little past 480 East and close to 140 North, so the office can place it without a second question. Keep in mind that grid numbers are not miles: in central Salt Lake City, UT, roughly 685 to 700 of them make one mile, and the half-size blocks fit more streets into each.

State Street, 500 South, then I-80

For a departure, the measured road from this corner runs down State Street to 500 South and on to I-80, and the final stretch is Terminal Drive, the last mile every corner of the county shares. Out to the terminal that comes to 8.4 road miles and 17 minutes at a quiet hour; the ride back from the airport measured 8.7 miles and 15 minutes. The reserved car sets you down on the commercial lane on the ground level, as airport signs direct.

Those minutes were taken with no traffic, and rush hour was never measured, so give the drive room when you choose a pickup time. Weigh the hour of your flight, how many bags go in the back, and how long you like to have inside the terminal before your concourse. On the way home, the flight number on the request goes to the company, and its written fare says how an early or late landing is handled.

Why the Avenues land in the 11-mile band

A sedan from this corner starts from $100 and an SUV from $130, per car, each way. The sedan seats three riders at most and the SUV six, which also suits a heavy load of bags. The fare follows road miles rather than grid numbers: 8.4 miles to the terminal runs just past 8, so the corner falls in the band of up to 11 road miles. The airport car service from 9th and 9th to SLC shares that band at 8.6 miles.

Each figure here is a starting point, and the price itself is the one the company writes. The page on a ride to Salt Lake City International Airport walks through the departure itself, and the fare sheet sets all six bands side by side. The quote is free, with no obligation, and the written fare may add:

• waiting past the time the fare names
• garage parking when the driver meets you inside the terminal
• extra stops along the route
• a gratuity the fare does not already include

Once you say yes and the company confirms in writing, that fare becomes a fixed rate for what it names, and it also lists anything that may be added. Nothing is held for you until the company confirms. The site takes no payment and asks for no card; the company is the one you pay, directly.