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State Route 180 is a state highway in California, United States, which runs through the
heart of the San Joaquin Valley from Mendota
through Fresno to Kings Canyon National Park.
A short piece near the eastern end, through the Grant Grove section of
Kings Canyon National Park, is not state-maintained. The part east
of unbuilt State Route 65 near Minkler
is eligible for the State Scenic
Highway System; the road east of Dunlap is the Kings Canyon
Scenic Byway, a Forest Service
Byway.
Route
description
The western terminus of SR 180 is at State Route 33 in Mendota. An
unconstructed portion of SR 180 is defined from SR 33 west across
Interstate 5 to State Route 25; there are
current plans to build the route to I-5 to provide better access to
communities along the route.[3] Panoche
Road, Little Panoche Road, Shields Avenue, Fairfax Avenue and
Belmont Avenue provides a locally-maintained route along the
proposed corridor from SR 25 to SR 33, and is signed as County Route J1. Until
1984, the route extended as far west as U.S. Route 101 near Gilroy,
using present-day Route 25.[2]
In Fresno, SR 180 is the
Sequoia-Kings Canyon Freeway, named for its
destinations to the east in the Sierra Nevada - Sequoia
National Park and Kings Canyon National Park.
It has full interchanges with three other freeways - State Route 99, State Route 41 and State Route 168. The SR 180
freeway presently runs from Brawley Avenue west of SR 99 to
Temperance Avenue east of SR 168; those local streets are
temporarily designated SR 180 south to the old surface alignment.
The freeway is officially State Route 180S
(supplemental) until the rest of it is completed, rejoining the old
route on both ends.[4][5] The
majority of SR 180, from SR 25 to the Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park,
is part of the California Freeway
and Expressway System, but only the piece in Fresno has
actually been constructed to freeway standards.
Rolinda Store, Fresno County
|
East extent of Kerman along SR 180.
|
Major
intersections
- 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 start and end postmiles in
each county are given in the county column.
| County |
Location |
Postmile
[6][7][8] |
#[9] |
Destinations |
Notes |
Fresno
FRE 23.50-109.53 |
Mendota |
23.50 |
|
 SR 33 (Derrick Avenue)
– Firebaugh, Los
Banos |
|
| 24.59 |
|
 Belmont Avenue to I-5 north |
|
|
26.12 |
|
San Benito Avenue, Panoche Road to I-5 south – Tranquillity, San
Joaquin |
|
|
34.59 |
|
James Road – Tranquillity, San
Joaquin |
|
| Kerman |
42.64 |
|
 SR 145 (Madera
Avenue) – Madera, Coalinga |
|
|
47.65 |
|
Dickenson Avenue – San Joaquin, Coalinga |
|
|
|
|
Brawley Avenue |
|
| West end of freeway |
| Fresno |
|
56 |
Marks Avenue |
|
| R56.52 |
57A |
 SR 99 – Bakersfield, Sacramento |
|
| R57.24 |
57B |
Fulton Street, Van Ness Avenue |
|
| R57.84 |
58 |
Abby Street, Blackstone Avenue |
|
| R58.70 |
59 |
 SR 41 (Yosemite Freeway) – Lemoore, Paso Robles, Yosemite |
Signed as exits 59A (south) and 59B (north) westbound |
| R59.90 |
60A |
 SR 168 east (Sierra Freeway) – Clovis,
Huntington Lake |
Signed as exit 60 westbound |
| R60.07 |
60B |
Cedar Avenue |
Westbound exit is part of exit 61 |
| R60.90 |
61 |
Chestnut Avenue |
|
| R62.00 |
62 |
Peach Avenue |
Serves Fresno Yosemite
International Airport |
| East end of freeway |
| R62.94 |
63 |
Clovis Avenue |
|
|
Fowler Avenue |
Interchange completed; opened December 3, 2009 |
|
|
Temperance Avenue |
Interchange completed; opened December 3, 2009 |
|
71.61 |
|
Academy Avenue – Sanger, Kingsburg |
Four-lane expressway between Temperance Avenue and Academy
Avenue under construction; scheduled to open in Summer 2011 |
|
77.49 |
|
Reed Avenue – Reedley |
|
|
|
|
Crawford Avenue – Navelencia |
|
|
87.71 |
|
 SR 63 south
(Hills Valley Road) – Orange Cove, Visalia |
|
|
108.12 |
|
 SR 245 south
(Pinehurst) – Pinehurst, Porterville |
|
Tulare
TUL 109.53-112.09 |
|
110.83 |
East end of state maintenance at General Grant Grove west boundary |
|
|
|
Generals
Highway – Sequoia National Park |
|
|
112.09 |
West end of state maintenance at General Grant Grove north boundary |
Fresno
FRE 112.09-137.94 |
|
137.94 |
Kings Canyon National Park
west boundary |
References
- ^ January 1, 2006 California Log
of Bridges on State Highways
- ^ a
b
California Highways: State
Route 180
- ^
State Route 180 Westside
Expressway Route Adoption Study (PDF)
- ^
Truck Networks on California
State Highways - Routes 101 to 980, last updated June 20,
2005
- ^
Truck Networks on California
State Highways - District 6 map (PDF), last revised June 20, 2005 ("NOTE:
180s currently runs from Hughes/West Diagonal to Chestnut Ave., PM
55.3 to 60.9. 180s will soon replace the segment of 180 that runs
through downtown Fresno.")
- ^ California
Department of Transportation, State Truck Route List
(XLS
file), accessed February 2008
- ^ California
Department of Transportation, Log of Bridges on State
Highways, July 2007
- ^
California
Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
- ^
California
Department of Transportation, California Numbered
Exit Uniform System, SR-180 Eastbound and SR-180 Westbound,
accessed February 2008
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