appeal. II. Equitable Estoppel ¶ 26 Wasatch challenges the trial court's determination that Wasatch is equitably estopped from asserting the public's rights in the Four Roads because it had failed to do so for a period of twelve years. As a general rule, once a road is dedicated and abandoned to the public under section 72-5-104(1), subsequent acts by the property owner to limit the public's use cannot change its status as a public highway. See Utah Code Ann. § 72-5-105 (Supp.2006); Heber City Corp. v. Simpson, 942 P.2d 307, 813 n. 12 (Utah 1997) (noting that the fact that the, road had not been used by the public for several years "d[id] not change its status as a public highway"); Western Kane County Special Serv. Dist. No. 1 v. Jackson Cattle Co., 744 P.2d 1376, 1377-78 (Utah 1987) (<HOLDING>); Clark v. Erekson, 9 Utah 2d 212, 341 P.2d
holding that case law had made clear that masturbating in car on public road was sufficiently open holding that a road not open to the public at all times was not a highway holding road was still a public highway although fifty years had passed since the road was used by the public holding that a bia road was a tribal road by considering the nature of the rightofway at issue and finding that although the tribe had relinquished certain gatekeeping rights by allowing public use of the road and collaborating with the bia in maintaining it the tribe had maintained other significant gatekeeping rights because the rightofway was not granted to the state and the road did not form any part of the states highway system holding that mere use of a road will not make a road a public road even though such use is with the knowledge and consent of the landowner unless the use is accompanied by  recognition by public authority or by its maintainance sic