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US 50 begins in West Sacramento, where I-80 leaves the West Sacramento Freeway onto a bypass of Sacramento.At the western terminus, a mileage sign gives the distance to the California cities of Placerville and South Lake Tahoe along with the eastern terminus of the highway in Ocean City, Maryland. [3]
This state highway was significantly extended in both directions in 1919, west to Ukiah and east to Emigrant Gap, [17] creating what was known as the Tahoe-Ukiah Highway, connecting Ukiah and Lake Tahoe in combination with Route 37 (now I-80) and Route 38 (now SR 89). [18]
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State Route 99 (SR 99) is a major north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California, stretching almost the entire length of the Central Valley.From its southern end at Interstate 5 (I-5) near Wheeler Ridge to its northern end at SR 36 near Red Bluff, SR 99 goes through the densely populated eastern parts of the valley.
Two in 3 people east of the Mississippi River live within a day's drive to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. ... and Sacramento, is a less crowded alternative to Lake Tahoe. Danica Chang // Shutterstock.
From Sacramento, the highway heads eastward as the William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. Memorial Highway, continuing as a freeway to the Gold Country foothills, then following the American River up the Sierra Nevada as a conventional highway, until cresting the Sierras at Echo Summit and descending to Lake Tahoe, where the highway enters Nevada.
In 1923, while still known as State Route 3, the road to Lake Tahoe was changed to follow Clear Creek Canyon, [54] along a path that had been used for a series of tunnels and flumes, to transport timber from Lake Tahoe to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad depot in Carson City. [57] The iteration is now known as Old Clear Creek Road.
Sacramento SAC T1.66-R23.96: Sacramento: T1.66: US 50 (El Dorado Freeway) / Howe Avenue – South Lake Tahoe, Sacramento: Interchange; west end of eastern section of SR 16; US 50 exit 9: T1.95: Folsom Boulevard west, Power Inn Road: Former SR 16 west / US 50 west: T2.53: Folsom Boulevard east, Notre Dame Drive: Former US 50 east: Rancho Cordova ...