California State Route 60

State Route 60
Route information
Defined by Streets and Highways Code § 360
Maintained by Caltrans
Length:	70 mi[1] (113 km)
Existed:	1964 – present
Major junctions
West end:	I-5 / I-10 / US 101 in Los Angeles
	I-710 in East Los Angeles I-605 in Industry SR 57 in Diamond Bar SR 71 in Pomona I-15 in Jurupa Valley SR 91 / I-215 in Riverside
East end:	I-10 in Beaumont
Highway system
State highways in California Interstate U.S. State Pre-1964 History Unconstructed Deleted Freeway Scenic ← SR 59 SR 61 →

State Route 60 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. It runs from Interstate 10 near the Los Angeles River in Los Angeles east to I-10 in Riverside County, with overlaps at State Route 57 and Interstate 215.

Route description

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System.^[2]

Route 60 serves the cities and communities on the eastern side of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and runs along the south side of the San Gabriel Valley. The west terminus of the freeway is at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex. The east terminus is at the junction with Interstate 10 (I-10) in Beaumont. The freeway is known as the Pomona Freeway west of its junction with State Route 91 and Interstate 215 in Riverside. East of this interchange the freeway is known as the Moreno Valley Freeway until its terminus at its junction with Interstate 10. The freeway shares the alignment of the Orange Freeway, State Route 57 for some 2 miles (3.2 km) in Diamond Bar and also shares the alignment of Interstate 215 for about 5 miles (8.0 km) in Riverside. The route takes its number from former U.S. Route 60, which now begins near Brenda, Arizona and terminates on the east coast at Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Pomona Freeway

Pomona Freeway in the foreground, with Phillips Ranch, and Mt. San Antonio in the background

The Pomona Freeway is the assigned name Route 60 (SR 60) between its western terminus at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex and its junction with the Riverside Freeway, State Route 91 (SR 91) and Interstate 215 (I-215) in Riverside.

It traverses Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties. As it passes through many of Los Angeles' east side suburbs in southern San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys, it is a major transportation corridor. For the majority of its length it is generally parallel to, and south of, the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10), and generally parallel to, and north of, the Riverside Freeway, California State Route 91. Traffic congestion is exacerbated by the rapid population growth and, therefore, residential, commercial, and industrial development in the inland communities known informally as the Inland Empire. In particular, it has become increasingly clogged of late with shipping container-laden trucks travelling from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to rail yards and warehouses in the Inland Empire.

Moreno Valley Freeway

The Moreno Valley Freeway is a freeway segment of State Route 60 and Interstate 215, connecting Riverside to communities further east in the Inland Empire and (via Interstate 10) to the Coachella Valley. Its western terminus is at the intersection of the Pomona (State Route 60) and Riverside Freeways (State Route 91 and Interstate 215), near downtown Riverside. The freeway is cosigned as State Route 60 and Interstate 215 for several miles in Riverside, traveling southeast, until the border between Riverside and Moreno Valley, where Interstate 215 branches southward as the Escondido Freeway, and State Route 60 (maintaining the Moreno Valley Freeway designation) branches eastward for approximately 20 miles (32 km). East of Moreno Valley, Route 60 technically loses its freeway status and becomes an expressway (because Caltrans has not yet found the money to close off all driveways and rebuild all at-grade intersections as grade-separated interchanges). After passing through Moreno Valley and the rugged hill country to the east (known as the Badlands to the locals), Route 60 ends at Interstate 10 in Beaumont.

As a result of the rapid development of the Inland Empire since the 1980s, the Moreno Valley Freeway now suffers from severe traffic congestion. The northwestern section that is concurrently signed with Interstate 215 recently underwent significant construction to improve traffic flow.

History

Pomona Freeway eastbound and 57N Interchange, with Grand Ave. exit (exit 24B) for Mt. San Antonio College, Chino Hills, and Diamond Bar visible

Before 1964, U.S. 60 ran from Los Angeles to the Arizona state line, where it continued its nationwide trek, often overlapping U.S. 99 and U.S. 70 along the way. The advent of Interstate 10 created a situation where, at one point, four different signed routes would run along the state-maintained highway.

In 1964, California implemented a plan to simplify its highway-numbering system, where one state highway had only one route number and concurrencies were sternly discouraged. As a result, the U.S. 60 designation (along with U.S. 70 and U.S. 99) was removed. Interstate 10 (as Route 10) superseded U.S. 60's alignment from Beaumont and towards the Arizona state line, even though the routing was only partly a freeway. This left the officially designated Route 60 from Beaumont to Los Angeles orphaned from its original U.S. Highway (which to this day begins at a point on Interstate 10 east of Quartzsite, Arizona). This new Route 60 was provisionally signed as a U.S. Highway since the designation would guide motorists from Los Angeles to Arizona in the absence of a completed freeway for Interstate 10; when all of Route 10 was upgraded to a freeway, the U.S. Highway designation disappeared.

At least one California highway sign managed to be overlooked for many years afterward. A sign on Hess Boulevard at California State Route 62 in the unincorporated town of Morongo Valley pointing not to Interstate 10 but to U.S. 60 (with evidence of the sign having pointed to both U.S. 70 and U.S. 99 as well) stood through the early 2000s. It has since been removed.^[3]

The stretch of Route 60 along the Moreno Valley Freeway made national headlines in April 2004, when five-year-old Ruby Bustamante of Indio and her 26-year-old mother, Norma, were reported missing. Their car had left the road, apparently unwitnessed, between the gap in two guard rails on April 4. It then crashed underneath a tree in a deep ravine. Though Mrs. Bustamante lost her life, presumably at the moment of impact, Ruby survived on her own for ten days on cups of uncooked Top Ramen noodles and bottles of Gatorade which were in the car.^[4][5][6]

On December 14, 2011, a tanker truck carrying 8,800 gallons of gasoline caught fire and exploded on the Pomona Freeway in Montebello, causing Caltrans to have to rebuild the Paramount Boulevard overpass.^[7][8]

There is a project that will begin in November 2016 and will end in the middle of 2018 that will construct a partial interchange at Lemon Avenue.^[9]

Exit list

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary (for a full list of prefixes, see the list of postmile definitions).^[10] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.

County	Location	Postmile [10][11][12]	Exit [13][14]	Destinations	Notes
Los Angeles LA 0.00-R30.46	Los Angeles	0.00	1A	I-10 west (Santa Monica Freeway) – Santa Monica	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; west end of SR 60/Pomona Freeway;[15] I-10 east exit 16B
		0.04	1B	Santa Fe Avenue, Mateo Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		R0.55	1A	I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) – Santa Ana	Eastbound exit only; I-5 north exit 134 goes directly to I-10 west
		0.38– R0.55	1C	US 101 north (Santa Ana Freeway) / Soto Street – Los Angeles	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		R0.55	1E	I-5 north (Golden State Freeway) – Sacramento	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; I-5 south exit 134A
		R1.48	1D	Whittier Boulevard, Lorena Street	Signed as exit 1B eastbound; Whittier Boulevard was former US 101
		R1.94	2	Indiana Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		R2.59	3A	Downey Road
		R3.27	3B	I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) – Pasadena, Long Beach	I-710 north exit 20A, south exit 20B
	Monterey Park	R4.43	4	Atlantic Boulevard
	Montebello	R5.16	6A	Findlay Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		R5.89	6B	Garfield Avenue, Wilcox Avenue	Signed as exit 6 westbound
		R7.77	8	Paramount Boulevard – Montebello
	Rosemead	R8.55	9	San Gabriel Boulevard – Rosemead
		9.51	10A	SR 19 (Rosemead Boulevard)
	South El Monte	10.23	10B	Santa Anita Avenue – South El Monte
		11.01	11	Peck Road
	Industry	11.71	12	I-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway)	I-605 exit 19
		12.63	13	Crossroads Parkway
	Hacienda Heights	14.26	14	Seventh Avenue – Industry	Signed as exits 14A (south) and 14B (north) eastbound
		15.93	16	Hacienda Boulevard	Former SR 39
	Industry	17.97	18	Azusa Avenue (CR N8)
		19.46	19	Fullerton Road
	Rowland Heights	20.43	20	Nogales Street
	Industry	R21.48	21	Fairway Drive – Walnut
	Diamond Bar	​	22	Lemon Avenue	Future partial interchange; to be a three-legged interchange with no westbound exit[16][17]
		R22.97	23	Brea Canyon Road	No westbound exit
	Diamond Bar–Industry line	R23.56	24A	SR 57 south (Orange Freeway) – Santa Ana	West end of SR 57 overlap; SR 57 north exit 16
		​	—	SR 57 south	HOV access only; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		R24.45	24B	Grand Avenue – Diamond Bar
	Diamond Bar	R25.46	25	SR 57 north (Orange Freeway)	East end of SR 57 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; westbound access is via exit 26
		R25.56	26	Diamond Bar Boulevard
	Pomona	R28.04	28	Phillips Ranch Road
		R29.39	29A	SR 71 (Chino Valley Freeway) – Pomona, Corona	Signed as exit 29B westbound; eastbound exit to SR 71 north is via exit 29B; SR 71 north exits 12A-B, south exits 12-13
		R29.39	29B	Garey Avenue	Signed as exit 29A westbound
		R30.33	30	Reservoir Street
San Bernardino R0.00-R9.96	Chino	R1.37	32	Ramona Avenue
		R2.37	33	Central Avenue
		R3.60	34	Mountain Avenue
	Ontario	R4.58	35	SR 83 (Euclid Avenue) – Ontario
		R5.86	36	Grove Avenue – Ontario Airport
		R6.86	37	Vineyard Avenue
		R7.87	38	Archibald Avenue
		R8.91	39	Haven Avenue – Ontario Airport
San Bernardino–Riverside county line		R9.96	40	Milliken Avenue, Hamner Avenue	Signed as exit 41A westbound; former SR 31
Riverside R0.00-30.50	​	R0.49	41	I-15 (Ontario Freeway) – Barstow, San Diego	Signed as exit 41B westbound; I-15 south exit 106, north exits 106A-B
	Jurupa Valley	R1.99	42	Van Buren Boulevard, Etiwanda Avenue, Mission Boulevard
		R3.03	43	Country Village Road, Mission Boulevard
		R4.55	45	Pedley Road
		R5.58	46	Pyrite Street
		7.53	48	Valley Way, Mission Boulevard – Rubidoux
		9.56	50	Rubidoux Boulevard – Rubidoux
	Riverside	11.07	52A	Market Street – Downtown Riverside
		11.73	52B	Main Street	former US 91 / US 395
		R12.06	53A	SR 91 west (Riverside Freeway) – Riverside, Beach Cities	Signed as exit 34B westbound; former US 91 south; east end of Pomona Freeway; SR 91 exits 65B-C
		R12.21 43.27[N 1]	53B	I-215 north (Riverside Freeway) – San Bernardino, Barstow	West end of I-215 overlap; no exit number westbound; former I-15E north / US 91 north / US 395 north; I-215 exit 34C
		42.84[N 1]	34A[N 2]	Spruce Street	Closed[18]
		42.16[N 1]	33[N 2]	3rd Street, Blaine Street
		41.49[N 1]	32[N 2]	University Avenue	former US 395
		40.98[N 1]	31[N 2]	Martin Luther King Boulevard
		40.28[N 1]	31[N 2]	El Cerrito Drive	Closed[18]
		39.48[N 1]	30B[N 2]	Watkins Drive, Central Avenue
		R38.92[N 1]	30A[N 2]	Fair Isle Drive – Box Springs	No westbound exit from I-215 north
		R38.34[N 1] R12.21	58	I-215 south (Escondido Freeway) – San Diego	East end of I-215 overlap; no exit number eastbound; former I-15E south / US 395 south; west end of Moreno Valley Freeway; I-215 exit 29
	Moreno Valley	13.31	59	Day Street
		14.32	60	Frederick Street, Pigeon Pass Road	To SR 60 Business, former US 60 east
		15.34	61	Heacock Street
		16.35	62	Perris Boulevard
		18.37	64	Nason Street
		19.20	65	Moreno Beach Drive
		20.37	66	Redlands Boulevard – Moreno
		21.37	67	Theodore Street
		22.10	68	Gilman Springs Road – Hemet, San Jacinto	Former SR 177
	Beaumont	27.98	74	Jack Rabbit Trail	East end of freeway; interchange eastbound, at-grade intersection westbound; no exit number westbound
		​		Western Knolls Avenue	At-grade intersection; west end of freeway
		30.50	—	6th Street – Beaumont	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		30.50		I-10 east – Indio	East end of SR 60/Moreno Valley Freeway;[15] I-10 exit 93
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Concurrency terminus       HOV only       Incomplete access       Unopened

See also

• California Roads portal
• Interstate 10
• U.S. Route 60
• U.S. Route 70
• U.S. Route 99

References

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

• California @ AARoads.com - State Route 60
• Caltrans: Route 60 highway conditions
• California Highways: Route 60
• The 60/91/215 Freeway Improvement Project

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