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SR 1 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, [10] and through the Los Angeles metro area, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco metro area is part of the National Highway System, [11] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration. [12]
State Route 156 (SR 156) is a west to east state highway in the U.S. state of California, running from State Route 1 in Castroville to State Route 152 near Hollister.It serves as part of the primary route from the Monterey Peninsula to either the San Francisco Bay Area or the California Central Valley.
The road continues south, over U.S. Route 101, into the Santa Monica Mountains, and across Mulholland Highway. 1.7 miles (2.7 km) south of Mulholland, Las Virgenes Road becomes Malibu Canyon Road, where it continues through the Santa Monica Mountains alongside Malibu Creek until it reaches its southern terminus at California State Route 1 in ...
Distinctive route markers were added to U.S. Route 101 and other national auto trails when the joint board of state highway officials adopted the United States Numbered Highway System in 1926. [12] The state highways forming El Camino Real were identified as Highway 1, U.S. Route 101 and Highway 82 on the San Francisco Peninsula in a 1959 law. [13]
On May 20, 2017, the largest slide in the highway's history at Mud Creek blocked the road 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Gorda or about 60 miles (97 km) south of Monterey. The slide began 1,100 feet (340 m) up the side of the mountain and dumped an estimated 5,000,000 cubic yards (3,800,000 m 3 ), [ 86 ] or about 1.5 million tons of dirt, on to ...
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In 1933, the state legislature enacted an amendment to the State Highway Classification Act of 1927, which added over 6,700 miles of county roads to the state highway system. [11] To help manage all the additional work created by this massive expansion, an eleventh district office was founded that year in San Diego.
SR 68 is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System; [7] however, only the part from SR 1 to the Salinas River is designated by Caltrans as a scenic highway. [8] The Monterey-Salinas Highway is a California Scenic Route because of its views of the chaparral and springtime lupin for 14 miles (23 km) between State Route 1 in Monterey to the ...