Interstate 8 Business (El Centro, California)

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Business Loop Interstate 8 is a business loop route that diverges from Interstate 8 in El Centro, California to pass through the downtown area. Business Interstate 8 originates and terminates with I-8 and acts as a direct link to El Centro as I-8 bypasses the downtown area.

Business Interstate 8's path through El Centro traces roughly three sides of a rectangle with I-8 constituting the fouth side. Bus-8 begins at its western terminus with I-8 by going north along Imperial Avenue. When Bus-8 reaches the interesection of Adams Avenue it turns east along that road. Along this stretch Bus-8 is joined by California State Route 86 which approaches from the north along Imperial Ave, and by Imperial County Route S80 which approaches from the west along Adams Ave. The three routes continue joined as Adams Ave ends and turns south along Fourth Ave where S80 then turns to continue east. Bus-8 and CA-86 continue south running concurrent until Bus-8 reaches its eastern terminus with I-8.

The Imperial Ave section of Bus-8 is city maintained by El Centro, the rest of Bus-8 is state maintained due to its concurrency with CA-86.

Along its concurrency with CA-86, Bus-8 is part of the Juan Bautista De Anza National Historic Trail.