U.S. Route 395 in California

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U.S. Route 395
Defined by S&HC § 610, maintained by Caltrans
Length:	556.909 mi[1] (896.258 km)
Formed:	1930s
South end:	I-15 near Hesperia
Major junctions:	SR 14 near Ridgecrest US 6 in Bishop US 395 at Topaz Lake, NV US 395 towards Reno, NV SR 299 in Alturas
North end:	US 395 towards Lakeview, OR
State highways in California (list - pre-1964) County routes in California (list) < I-380 I-405 > History - Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

In the U.S. state of California, U.S. Route 395 is a 557-mile long route which traverses from Interstate 15 near the southern city limits of Hesperia, all the way north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake. The route also clips into Nevada, serving the cities Carson City and Reno as a freeway and returns to California.

The large portion of US 395 parallels the Southern Pacific Railroad, an American railroad founded in 1865 and served numerous large cities in California, including Los Angeles before the 1964 renumbering.

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System^[2] and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System^[3].

Contents 1 Route description 1.1 South segment 1.2 North segment 2 History 2.1 U.S. Route 395 Business 3 Major intersections and exit list 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Route description

[edit] South segment

U.S. Route 395 begins as a limited-access road within the city limits of Hesperia at a partial interchange with Interstate 15 as it heads due north. Then it enters into Adelanto, a city just north of Hesperia, and makes a junction with Palmdale Road (SR 18). US 395 then intersects with Air Expressway Boulevard, which serves Southern California Logistics Airport and the community Mojave Heights. US 395 then turns north-northwest and leaves the city limits of Adelanto and does not make any major junction for some 40 more miles. The route then makes a short clip in the northeastern corner of the Edwards Air Force Base, followed by an at-grade intersection with SR 58. Then US 395 continues north-northwest and passes through the last two communities in San Bernardino County - Atoila and Red Mountain. The route then makes its way through Kern County and makes a junction with Inyokern Road (SR 178), which serves Ridgecrest, Inyokern and the Inyokern Airport. Just before leaving Kern County and entering Inyo County, the route parallels the west side of the region of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and interchanges with SR 14 south, which serves Bishop, Lancaster, and Palmdale. Its first small unincorporated community in Inyo is Pearsonville (coloquially referred to as the Hubcap Capital of the World) and Little Lake. The route no longer parallels the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake after reaching the Coso Junction. The route also serves the Haiwee Reservoir via Haiwee Reservoir Road (to the south side of the reservoir) and North Haiwee Road (to the north side). Afterwards, the route serves another community of Cartago shortly after making a junction at SR 190 east in Olancha, which is an alternate route to SR 136 (SR 136 reaches US 395 in Lone Pine. Traveling further on north, US 395 parallels the Owens River by this point, and the route is used to serve the region of the Manzanar National Historic Site, as well as the community of Independence, the county seat of Inyo County and the home to the Eastern California Museum. Then passes through the small Fort Independence Indian Reservation and swerves nearby the Tinehama Reservoir near Fish Springs. At Big Pine, it traverses through the Big Pine Indian Reservation and is overlapped with SR 168.^[4]

As soon as SR 168 departs from US 395 in Bishop, US 395 junctions with U.S. Route 6, a 3,205-mile long route which can take motorists ultimately to the east coast with the US 6 terminating in Provincetown, Massachusetts. At the at-grade intersection with US 6, US 395 makes a 90-degree turn and continues west as it leaves Bishop and heads toward Mono County. Its first interchange in Mono County is at South Landing Road, which serves South Landing and Crowley Lake. US 395 then traverses in a general west-northwest direction towards the Mammoth Lakes Airport just before making a junction with SR 203 (a loop of US 395) towards Mammoth Lakes. At the June Lake Junction, the route holds another loop, SR 158, which serves the community of June Lake along with the June, Gull, Silver, and Grant Lakes. US 395 intersects with SR 120 east, which is used to meet with US 6 in Benton. SR 120 overlaps US 395 for a short segment and leaves westbound towards Yosemite National Park. SR 167 and SR 182 can both be used to reach the Nevada state line. After passing SR 89, US 395 also reaches the Nevada state line near Topaz Lake and serves the Nevadan cities of Carson City and Reno while cosigning with unsigned I-580. US 395 traverses in Nevada for approximately 83 miles.^[4]

[edit] North segment

The route immediately downgrades from a freeway to a divided highway as soon as US 395 leaves Nevada and re-enters California near Peavine. US 395 continues for approximately three miles in Sierra County with no major intersections, then enters Lassen County. A short segment of US 395 in Lassen County is a freeway, with SR 70 at the Hallelujah Junction. The junction with SR 70 is the only interchange with an exit number (exit 8,^[5] which is measured eight miles from the Nevada state line near Peavine) on US 395 in California. After several more miles, US 395 intersects with County Routes A26 and A25, both routes headed towards the Sierra Army Depot. Then US 395 continues northwest around the west side of the 190 km² large Honey Lake and serves the nearby community of Milford. CR A3 serves as a shortcut and returns back to US 395 near Standish. Otherwise, US 395 continues northwest and turns back to the east at SR 36 near the Susanville Municipal Airport, then bypasses Lake Leavitt and intersects with the north end of County Route A3 near Standish, followed by CR A27 in Litchfield. The route turns up north at the intersection with Wendel Road, which serves the small census-designated place of Wendel. US 395 serves Ravendale at the intersection with Mail Route Road as well as the small Ravendale Airport. US 395 serves more communities of Termo and Madeline, California in Lassen County, as well as Likely and Ramsey in Modoc County. Modoc County is the northernmost county in California for US 395, with its last junction with SR 299 near Alturas, which can be used to travel west all the way to the western side of California at US 101 in Arcata, and east to the Nevada state line. The junction also overlaps with US 395 and enters jointly with SR 299 into the XI Ranch Indian Reservation, where SR 299 splits shortly after. US 395 travels in a north-northeast direction for some last 100 miles in California. US 395 parallels with Goose Lake just before crossing the Oregon state line near New Pine Creek, Oregon. In Oregon and Washington, US 395 continues all the way to the Canadian border near Laurier, Washington.^[4]

[edit] History

US 395 once held its southern terminus in San Diego, where it ended at the street of Pacific Highway (what is now Old US 101). The route that traversed through SR 163, I-15, and I-215 until it reached Temecula was decommissioned in the 1964 renumbering.^[6] However, it was still signed until around 1970, and realignments of the route took place north of the present day southern terminus in Hesperia. In the present day, the segment of US 395 in San Diego County was decommissioned and is now signed as "Old US 395".^[6] Therefore, US 395 was decommissioned in the San Diego and Riverside Counties, as well as a portion in San Bernardino County.^[7]

In 1950, the highway in the San Diego area was realigned and widened from two lanes into four.^[8] Sections of US 395 have been upgraded to a freeways; for example the Los Peñasquitos Creek Arch Bridge (built in 1949 and carries I-15) was widened and upgraded to a more stable bridge.^[8] By 1966, US 395 was upgraded to full freeway status between the southern city limits of Escondido and the small region near the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. It was at the time when I-15 held its southern terminus at the interchange with I-10, and that the segment south of the interchange was only signed as US 395. By 1976, however, a further widening of the freeway into eight lanes took place and by then was signed as I-15.^[8]

From Hesperia to Bishop, US 395 was formerly signed as U.S. Route 6, in which US 6's southern terminus was at what is now the south end Interstate 110 at Gaffrey Street in San Pedro.^[9] The extension from Greeley, Colorado in 1937 included the segment of US 395 from Hesperia to Bishop. It was until the 1964 state highway renumbering when US 6 was relinquished from Bishop down southward to San Pedro; therefore, from Bishop south to I-15, the route was renamed as US 395 (old US 6).

[edit] U.S. Route 395 Business

In California, the route holds one business loop for US 395 - US 395 Bus. near Ridgecrest, the largest city near US 395 with a population of approximately 24,927 in the year 2000.^[10] The route was approved by the AASHTO on June 7, 1989.^[11] US 395 Bus. follows South China Lake Boulevard and serves downtown Ridgecrest and part of Inyokern.^[11]

[edit] Major intersections and exit list

Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.

County	Location	Postmile [1][12][13]	#[5]	Destinations	Notes
San Bernardino SBD R3.98-73.52	Hesperia	R3.98		I-15 south – San Bernardino	Interchange; south end of US 395
		4		To I-15 north / Joshua Street – Victorville
	Adelanto	11.18		SR 18 – Palmdale
	Kramer Junction	45.95		SR 58 – Bakersfield, Barstow, Boron
		72.77		Trona Road – Trona, Death Valley
Kern KER 0.00-R36.82		R1.15		Redrock Randsburg Road – Randsburg
		5		To SR 14 / Garlock Road – Garlock
		R15.00		Ridgecrest (Bus. 395 north)
		R23.48		SR 178 (Bus. 395 south) to SR 14 south – Ridgecrest, Inyokern	Interchange
		R25.08		Inyokern (Brown Road)	Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance
		R29.64		SR 14 south – Los Angeles	Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance
Inyo INY R0.00-R129.46		3		CR J41 (Nine Mile Canyon Road) – Kennedy Meadows
	Olancha	34.67		SR 190 – Death Valley
	Lone Pine	55.83		SR 136 to SR 190 – Death Valley
	Big Pine	100.83		SR 168 east to US 95 – Westgard Pass, Deep Springs	South end of SR 168 overlap
	Bishop	115.40		SR 168 west – Lake Sabrina, South Lake	North end of SR 168 overlap
		116.25		US 6 north – Tonopah
Mono MNO R0.00-120.49		R13.93		Crowley Lake, Hilton Creek	Interchange
		R25.75		SR 203 – Mammoth Lakes, Devils Postpile	Interchange
		31		Mammoth Lakes Scenic Loop
	June Lake Junction	40.34		SR 158 north (June Lake Loop)
		45.96		SR 120 east – Mono Lake, South Tufa	South end of SR 120 overlap
		46.40		SR 158 south (June Lake Loop)
	Tioga Pass Junction	50.74		SR 120 west – Tioga Pass, Yosemite National Park	North end of SR 120 overlap
		58.24		SR 167 – Hawthorne
		69.85		SR 270 – Bodie
	Bridgeport	76.30		SR 182 – Bridgeport Lake, Yerington
		93.70		SR 108 – Sonora
		116.96		SR 89 – Markleeville
US 395 enters Nevada and returns to California
Sierra SIE R0.00-R3.12	No major intersections
Lassen LAS R0.00-138.98	South end of freeway
	Hallelujah Junction	4.62	8	SR 70 west – Portola, Quincy
	North end of freeway
		29.84		CR A26 (Garnier Road) – Herlong, Sierra Army Depot
		34		CR A25 (Herlong Access Road) – Herlong
		51.87		CR A3 north (Standish Buntingville Road) – Alturas, Lakeview
		53		Janesville Grade Road – Janesville
		R61.09		SR 36 – Susanville
	Standish	70.12		CR A3 south (Standish Buntingville Road) – Reno
	Litchfield	72.94		CR A27 (Center Road) – High Desert State Prison
Modoc MOD 0.06-61.56		22.76		SR 299 west – Klamath Falls, Redding	South end of SR 299 overlap
		28.29		SR 299 east – Cedarville, Gerlach	North end of SR 299 overlap
		61.56	Oregon state line

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Finding Route 395
• The Three Flags Highway: US 395 at Floodgap Roadgap
• U.S. Highway 395: California's 'mother road' from the Los Angeles Times

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