Interstate 5 in California

Interstate 5 in California

 

I-5
Get started San Diego
End Hilt
Length 796 mi
Length 1,281 km
Route
San Diego/San Ysidro: 1-5

  • 1A → San Diego Bypass
  • 1B Via San Ysidro
  • 2 San Ysidro Boulevard
  • 3 → Otay Mesa
  • 4 Coronado Avenue
  • 5A Palm Avenue
  • Chula Vista: 5-9
  • 5B Main Street
  • 6 Palomar Street
  • 7A L Street
  • 7B J Street
  • 8A H Street
  • 8B E Street
  • 9 → La Mesa
  • National City: 10-12
  • 10 24th Street
  • 11A Harbor Drive
  • 11B Plaza Boulevard
  • 12 Division Street
  • San Diego: 13-36
  • 13A → Riverside
  • 13B 28th Street
  • 14A San Diego-Coronado Bridge
  • 14B Cesar E. Chavez Parkway
  • 15A Imperial Avenue
  • 15B → La Mesa
  • 15C Pershing Drive
  • 16 → Escondido
  • 16B Downtown San Diego
  • 17 Front Street
  • 17B Sassafras Street
  • 18A Pacific Highway
  • 18B Washington Street
  • 19 Old Town Avenue
  • 20 → El Cajon / Yuma
  • 21 Sea World Drive
  • 22 Clairemont Drive
  • 23A Grand Avenue
  • 23B Balboa Avenue
  • 26A La Jolla Parkway
  • 26B → Santee
  • 27 Gilman Drive
  • 28A Nobel Drive
  • 28B La Jolla Village Drive
  • 29 Genesee Avenue
  • 30 Sorrento Valley Road
  • 31 → San Diego Bypass
  • 32 Carmel Mountain Road
  • 33A → Poway
  • 33B Carmel Valley Road
  • 34 Del Mar Heights Road
  • 36 Via de la Valle
  • 37 Solana Beach
  • Encinitas: 39-43
  • 39 Manchester Avenue
  • 40 Birmingham Drive
  • 41 Santa Fe Drive
  • 42 Encinitas Boulevard
  • 43 Leucadia Boulevard
  • Carlsbad: 44-51
  • 44 La Costa Avenue
  • 45 Poinsetta Lane
  • 47 Palomar Airport Road
  • 48 Cannon Road
  • 49 Tamarack Avenue
  • 50 Carlsbad Village Drive
  • 51A Las Flores Drive
  • Oceanside: 51-54
  • 51B → Escondido
  • 51C Cassidy Street
  • 52 Oceanside Boulevard
  • 53 Mission Avenue
  • 54A Coast Highway
  • 62 Las Pulgas Road
  • 71 Basilone Road
  • 72 Cristianitos Road
  • San Clemente: 73-77
  • 73 Avenida Magdalena
  • 74 El Camino Real
  • 75 Avenida Presidio
  • 76 Avenida Pico
  • 77 Avenida Vista Hermosa
  • 78 Camino de Estrella
  • 79 Dana Point
  • 81 Camino Capistrano
  • 82 San Juan Capistrano
  • 83 Junipero Serra Road
  • Mission Viejo: 85-88
  • 85A → Long Beach
  • 85B Avery Parkway
  • 86 Crown Valley Parkway
  • 88 Oso Parkway
  • Laguna Hills: 89-92
  • 89 La Paz Road
  • 90 Alicia Parkway
  • 91 El Toro Road
  • 92 Lake Forest Drive
  • Irvine: 94-100
  • 94A → Long Beach
  • 94B Alton Parkway
  • 95 Barranca Parkway
  • 96 Sand Canyon Avenue
  • 96B → Riverside
  • 97 Jeffrey Road
  • 99 Culver Drive
  • 100 Jamboree Road
  • Tustin: 101-103 _
  • 101A Tustin Ranch Road
  • 101B Red Hill Avenue
  • 102 Newport Avenue
  • 103 → Costa Mesa / Riverside
  • Santa Ana: 103-107
  • 103C First Street
  • 104 Grand Avenue
  • 105A 17th Street
  • 105B Main Street
  • 106 → Long Beach / Garden Grove
  • 107A La Veta Avenue
  • 107A → Pomona
  • 107B Champman Avenue
  • 107C State College Boulevard
  • Anaheim: 109-113
  • 109 Katella Avenue
  • 109B Disney Way
  • 110A Harbor Boulevard
  • 110B Disneyland Drive
  • 111 Lincoln Avenue
  • 112 Euclid Street
  • 113 Brookhurst Street
  • 114 → Artesia / Riverside
  • Buena Park: 115-117
  • 115 Auto Center Drive
  • 116 Beach Boulevard
  • 117 Knott Avenue
  • 118 Valley View Avenue
  • 119 Carmenita Road
  • Norwalk: 120-123
  • 120 Rosecrans Avenue
  • 121 Norwalk Boulevard
  • 122 Imperial Highway
  • 123 Florence Avenue
  • 124 → Long Beach / El Monte
  • 125 Lakewood Boulevard
  • 126A Paramount Boulevard
  • Commerce: 126-130
  • 126B Slauson Avenue
  • 128A Bandini Boulevard
  • 128B Washington Boulevard
  • 129 Atlantic Boulevard
  • 130A Triggs Street
  • 130B Eastern Avenue
  • → Long Beach / Pasadena
  • 131A Olympic Boulevard
  • 131B Ditman Avenue
  • Los Angeles: 132-144
  • 132 Indiana Street
  • 133 Grande Vista Avenue
  • 134A → Pomona
  • 134B Soto Street
  • → Hollywood / Ventura
  • 134C 7th Street
  • 134 → Santa Monica
  • 135A 4th Street
  • 135B Cesar Chavez Avenue
  • 135C → San Bernardino / Phoenix
  • 135C Mission Road
  • 136A Main Street
  • 136B Broadway
  • 137A → Pasadena
  • 137B Figueroa Street
  • 138 Stadium Way
  • 139 → Glendale
  • 140A Fletcher Drive
  • 140B Glendale Boulevard
  • 141A Los Feliz Boulevard
  • 141B Griffith Park
  • 142 Colorado Street
  • 144 → Pasadena / Ventura
  • 145A Western Avenue
  • Burbank: 145-148
  • 145B Alameda Avenue
  • 146A Olive Avenue
  • 146B Burbank Boulevard
  • 147A Scott Road
  • 147B Lincoln Street
  • 148 Buena Vista Street
  • Los Angeles: 149-162
  • 149 Hollywood Way
  • 150A Glenoaks Boulevard
  • 150B Sunland Boulevard
  • 151 Penrose Street
  • 152 Lankershim Boulevard
  • 153A Sheldon Street
  • 153B → Hollywood
  • 153B Branford Street
  • 154 Osborne Street
  • 155A Terra Bella Street
  • 155B Van Nuys Boulevard
  • 156A Paxton Street
  • 156B → Simi Valley
  • 157A Fire Boulevard
  • 157B San Fernando Mission Boulevard
  • 158 → Santa Monica
  • 161A → Pasadena
  • 161B Balboa Boulevard
  • 162 → Palmdale
  • Santa Clarita: 166-172
  • 166 Calgrove Boulevard
  • 167 Lyons Avenue
  • 168 McBean Parkway
  • 169 Valencia Boulevard
  • 170 Magic Mountain Parkway
  • 171 Rye Canyon Road
  • 172 → Ventura
  • 173 Hasley Canyon Road
  • 176A Parker Road
  • 176B Lake Hughes Road
  • 183 Templin Highway
  • 191 Vista del Lago Road
  • 195 Smokey Bear Road
  • 198A → Palmdale
  • 198B Quail Lake Road
  • 199 → Lancaster
  • 202 Gorman
  • 205 Frazier Mountain Park Road
  • 207 Lebec
  • 210 Fortress Tejon
  • 215 Grapevine
  • 219 Laval Road
  • 221 → Bakersfield / Fresno
  • 225 → Mettler / Taft
  • 228 Copus Road
  • 234 Old River Road
  • 239 → Arvin
  • 244 → Pumpkin Center / Lamont
  • 246 → Shafts / Wasco
  • 253 Stockdale Highway
  • 257 → Bakersfield
  • 262 7th Standard Road
  • 263 Buttonwillow
  • 268 Shafter
  • 278 → Lost Hills / Paso Robles
  • 288 T Wisselman Road
  • 305 Utica Avenue
  • 309 → Kettleman City
  • 319 → Avenal
  • 325 → King City / Coalinga
  • 334 → Lemoore / Hanford
  • 337 → Coalinga
  • 349 → Mendota
  • 357 Kamm Avenue
  • 365 Manning Avenue
  • 368 Panoche Road
  • 372 Russell Avenue
  • 379 Shields Avenue
  • 385 Nees Avenue
  • 391 → Los Banos
  • 403 → Los Banos / Fresno
  • 407 → Santa Nella / Gilroy
  • 418 → Gustine / Merced
  • 423 Stuhr Road
  • 428 Fink Road
  • 434 Diablo Grande Parkway
  • 441 Howard Road
  • 446 → San Francisco
  • 449 → Modesto
  • 452 → Tracy / Vernalis
  • 457 Kasson Road
  • 458 → Tracy / San Francisco
  • Lathrop: 460-463
  • 460 Mossdale Road
  • 461 → Manteca
  • 462 Louise Avenue
  • 463 Lathrop Road
  • 465 Roth Road
  • 467A El Dorado Street
  • 467B Mathews Road
  • 468 French Camp Road
  • Stockton: 469-481
  • 469 Downing Avenue
  • 470 8th Street
  • 471
  • 472 → Stockton /
  • 473 Pershing Avenue
  • 474A Monte Diablo Avenue
  • 474B Country Club Boulevard
  • 476 March Lane
  • 477 Benjamin Holt Drive
  • 478 Hammer Lane
  • 481 Eight Mile Road
  • 485 → Lodi / Fairfield
  • 487 Turner Road
  • 490 Peltier Road
  • 493 Thornton
  • 498 Twin Cities Road
  • 504 Hood Franklin Road
  • 506 Elk Grove Boulevard
  • 508 Laguna Boulevard
  • Sacramento: 510-528
  • 510 Cosumnes Boulevard
  • 512 → Freeport
  • 513 Florin Road
  • 514 43rd Avenue
  • 515 Fruitridge Road
  • 516 Sutterville Road
  • 518 → San Francisco / South Lake Tahoe
  • 519A Q Street
  • 519B J Street
  • 520 Richards Boulevard
  • 521A Garden Highway
  • 521B West El Camino Avenue
  • 522 → San Francisco / Reno
  • 524 Arena Boulevard
  • 525A Del Paso Road
  • 525B → Yuba City
  • 528 Sacramento International Airport
  • 531 Road 22
  • 536 Road 102
  • 537 Main Street
  • 537 → Davis
  • 538 → Yuba City
  • 540 West Street
  • 541 → Esparto
  • 542 Yolo
  • 548 Zamora
  • 553 → Winters / San Francisco
  • 554 Road 8
  • 556 Dunnigan
  • 559 County Line Road
  • 566 Arbuckle
  • 567 frontage road
  • 569 Hahn Road
  • 575 Husted Road
  • 577 Williams
  • 578 → Clear Lake / Colusa
  • 586 Maxwell Road
  • 588 Maxwell
  • 591 Delevan Road
  • 595 Road 68
  • 601 Road 57
  • 603 → Willows / Oroville
  • 607 Road 39
  • 610 Artois
  • 614 Road 27
  • 618 South Street
  • 619 → Orland / Chico
  • 621 Road 7
  • 628 Liberal Avenue
  • 530 South Avenue
  • 631 Corning Road
  • 633 Finnell Avenue
  • 636 Gyle Road
  • 642 Flores Avenue
  • Red Bluff: 647-652
  • 647A South Main Street
  • 647B Diamond Avenue
  • 649 → Red Bluff / Chico
  • 650 Adobe Road
  • 651 Red Bluff
  • 652 Wilcox Golf Road
  • 653 Jellys Ferry Road
  • 657 Auction Yard Road
  • 659 Sunset Hills Drive
  • 662 Bowman Road
  • 664 Gas Point Road
  • 665 Cottonwood
  • 667A
  • 667B Dechutes Road
  • 668 Anderson
  • 670 Riverside Avenue
  • 673 Redding Airport
  • Rescue: 675-682
  • 675 Bechelli Lane
  • 677 Cypress Avenue
  • 678 → Eureka
  • 680
  • 681A Twin View Boulevard
  • 681B
  • 682 Oasis Road
  • 684 Pine Grove Avenue
  • 685 → Shasta Dam
  • 687 Wonderland Boulevard
  • 689 Fawndale Road
  • 690 Bridge Bay Road
  • 692 Turntable Bay Road
  • 693 Packers Bay Road
  • 695 Shasta Caverns Road
  • 698 Gilman Road
  • 702 Lakeshore Drive
  • 704 Riverview Drive
  • 707 Vollmers
  • 710 State Creek Road
  • 712 Pollard Flat
  • 714 Gibson Road
  • 718 Sims Road
  • 720 Flume Creek Road
  • 721 Conant Road
  • 723 Sweetbrier Avenue
  • 724 Castella
  • 726 Soda Creek Road
  • 727 Crag View Drive
  • 728 Railroad Park Road
  • 729 Dunsmuir Avenue
  • 730 Dunsmuir
  • 732 Dunsmuir Avenue
  • 734 Mott Road
  • 736 → McCloud / Welding NP
  • 737 South Mount Shasta Blvd
  • 738 Mount Shasta
  • 740 Mount Shasta City
  • 741 Abrams Lake Road
  • 743 Summit Drive
  • 745 South Weed Boulevard
  • 747 → Weed / Klamath Falls
  • 748 North Weed Boulevard
  • 751 Stewart Springs Road
  • 753 Weed Airport
  • 759 Louie Road
  • 766 Montague
  • 770 Easy Street
  • 773 → Yreka / Etna
  • 775 Yreka
  • 776 Yreka
  • 786 → Willow Creek
  • 789 Henley
  • 790 Hornbrook Highway
  • 793 Bailey Hill Road
  • 796 Hilto

Oregon

Interstate 5 or I -5 is an Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of California. The freeway forms a north-south route across the state, from the Mexico border at San Ysidro to the Oregon state border at Hilt. I-5 is 1,281 kilometers long in California, making it the second longest Interstate Highway within a single state.

I-5 runs through the metropolitan areas of Southern California, including across San Diego and Los Angeles and their sizable suburban regions. The southernmost 280 kilometers leads almost non-stop through built-up areas, I-5 here is very wide and extremely busy, some road sections are among the busiest in the United States.

Farther north, I-5 leads through the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, a much more sparsely populated area that is primarily agricultural in character. The freeway runs east of the San Francisco Bay Area, passing through the city of Stockton and the state capital Sacramento. In Northern California, I-5 passes through less populated areas with only the small towns of Red Bluff and Redding remaining on the route.

The scenery along I-5 varies widely, from the urbanization of Southern California to the Grapevine Pass north of Los Angeles, the monotonous plains of the San Joaquin Valley and the mountains of Northern California. Dominant is the view of Mount Shasta in Northern California. Portions of the trail in Northern California are more than 1,000 feet above sea level.

Travel directions

I-5 at San Diego.

Interstate 5 at downtown Los Angeles.

The I-5 in the San Joaquin Valley.

San Diego

According to topschoolsintheusa.com, the highway begins at the Ysidro border crossing with Mexico. Here Mexican Carretera Federal 1 becomes Interstate 5. The highway splits a mile north of the border crossing into Interstate 5 through downtown and Interstate 805 through the eastern neighborhoods. Interstate 5 then passes through the suburbs of Chula Vista and National City and intersects around downtown with a number of other interstate highways, most notably Interstate 15 and Interstate 8. Further north, I-805 and I-5 rejoin and follow a very wide stretch of highway. The highway then runs through the cities of Encinitas, Carlsbad and Oceanside. Only Camp Pendleton, a naval site, still separates the San Diego region from Los Angeles.

Los Angeles

The southernmost suburb, San Clemente, is still 100 kilometers from downtown Los Angeles, and Interstate 5 runs here for more than 160 kilometers through urban areas. To the south, I-5 runs through a collection of newer suburbs south of Irvine. Interstate 405 branches off in Irvine, following a more westerly route through Los Angeles. The highway passes through Santa Ana and Anaheim, large suburbs that are also centers in their own right. It crosses the Riverside Freeway and the Orange Freeway. Closer to Los Angeles, it crosses two north-south Interstates, Interstate 605 and Interstate 710.

At the center of Los Angeles, Interstate 10 crosses a short double -number and begins US 101, which forms a coastal route to San Francisco, while I-5 continues inland. North of downtown, another large urban area, consisting of residential areas of Los Angeles, follows. In the north of the city, I-405 rejoins and Interstate 210 begins, which forms a northbound east-west route through the mountains and suburbs to San Bernardino.

San Joaquin Valley

After Los Angeles there is a long stretch that in fact has no larger city on the route. After Tejon Pass, Interstate 5 descends into the San Joaquin Valley, a large agricultural area that is largely irrigated. At Mettler, the junction follows with State Route 99, the highway that serves the larger towns in the valley. Interstate 5 runs well west of these cities and is therefore fairly quiet. 25 percent of U.S. agricultural products are grown in Californiaproduced, much of it in the San Joaquin Valley. One passes west of Bakersfield, a large town in the south of the valley. The San Joaquin Valley is situated between the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. The desert is not far away, however, a few kilometers west of the highway the deserts already begin. One also passes well west of Fresno, the largest city in the valley. To the west is San Jose, the largest city in the Bay Area. A connecting motorway to this, however, is located a bit more to the north.

At Vernalis, Interstate 580 turns off, which is the gateway to the San Francisco Bay Area, to the suburban cities of Oakland, San Jose, and San Francisco. At Tracy, Interstate 205 merges, coming from this direction. A few miles down the road, State Route 120 turns off, a short highway that leads to SR-99 at Manteca. Next up is Stockton, the first major city since Los Angeles. Here it crosses State Route 4, the Crosstown Freeway, which leads to SR-99, the other north-south junction in the valley, which is only a few miles to the east here.

Sacramento

This is followed by the metropolitan area of ​​Sacramento, the capital of California. Sacramento has a relatively small highway network given the size of its population. The highway here runs parallel to the Sacramento River. The highway soon has 2×4 lanes. South of the center you cross the US 50, which has been developed here as a highway and leads to the eastern suburbs and the Sierra Nevada. I-5 then cuts straight through downtown. On the north side, one crosses Interstate 80, which leads to San Franciscoin the west and Reno in the east. To the north of this are also many new residential areas. On the north side of town, SR-99 exits toward Yuba City. I-5 then heads east a little, past the Sacramento Airport.

Northern California

I-5 overlooking Mount Shasta in Northern California.

Sacramento is the last major city in California on the Interstate 5 route, although there is still 450 kilometers to go to the Oregon border . At Woodland, State Route merges with 113, which comes from Davis. The landscape still consists of agricultural areas. A little further on, Interstate merges 505, which is a shortcut between I-5 and I-80. The highway here runs through the great Sacramento Valley. There are few larger towns along the way and to the west are the Coast Ranges. The road passes west of Yuba City and Chico. At Red Bluff, the farming areas end and the wildernesses that span much of Northern California begin.

Here the motorway also begins a slow climb. Clearly visible from the highway is the 3,187 meter high Lassen Peak. The last bigger place is Redding. A section with 2×3 lanes has been constructed here. A bridge leads over the large reservoir Lake Shasta. This is also a large recreational area. There are now vast forests and wildernesses along the highway. One crosses another branch of Lake Shasta and comes near the Cascades, an elongated mountain range that extends to the Canadian border. The highway still ascends, although the climb is not steep. Constantly visible is the 4,317 meter high Mount Shasta. One then enters the Klamath Mountains, part of the Coast Ranges. The highway is scenically very beautiful, and at one point the difference in height between the two lanes is almost 100 meters. One then reaches the limit withOregon. At Hilt, Interstate 5 in Oregon continues toward Medford and Portland.

Interstate 5 in California

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